*Official* England in Bangladesh

[GIMH]

ah balls

 

[King Pietersen]

This is the England we know and love.

 

[BoyBrumby]

Hossain gets Colly now. Reversing in and pings him bang in front. Justice for the boy, is bowling his heart out.

107/3. Well, well.

 

[Athlai]

BANGErS!!!!!!!!

 

[Uppercut]

This is real quality bowling from Hossain.

 

[Aritro]

After standing around for roughly half a minute to think about all the possible ways he could turn down the appeal, the umpire decided it was just too obviously out and raised his finger.

Which was nice of him.

 

[Neil Pickup]

Time for Bangladesh to be stripped of Test status, preferably before Wednesday morning. I may just go back to bed, as we're relying on Bell again. Help...

 

[BoyBrumby]

Still no slips for the seamer. Jesus wept. Shakib should be shot.

 

[Sir Alex]

Nice for KP, quickest to 5000 in terms of days in the history of the game. Played KP, now get a 17th Test hundred.

16th in terms of innings.

 

[Sir Alex]

16th in terms of innings.

Would love to see England beaten in this. Serves them right for resting their captain for this series.

 

[GIMH]

zzzzzzzz

 

[shivfan]

Would love to see England beaten in this. Serves them right for resting their captain for this series.

Serves them right for dropping Carberry, and replacing him with Tredwell....

 

[andyc]

Good lord, Cricinfo tells me that Trott has only scored 5 runs off 57 Shakib deliveries. Is Trott struggling or just in a bit of a shell?

 

[Jarquis]

Would be nice for Bell to ton up first and to get that monkey off his back. Although doing it against Bangladesh won't be good enough for some I suppose.

 

[King Pietersen]

Not struggling as such, just doesn't have a gameplan in general against spin. He seems unable to rotate the strike or find gaps and seems to be thinking of defence first, only attacking the real rank deliveries. Unless he over-hauls his game and his mindset I don't see him having much success in the subcontinent. Just lucky that one of the better players of spin bowling in the XI, Ian Bell is out there with him.

 

[Lillian Thomson]

Remember the names Broad, Finn, Treadwell, Bresnan and Swann as you will never see a more pitiful bowling attack in Test Cricket.

 

[Neil Pickup]

Shakib is also bowling over the wicket outside leg stump. He is content to bowl dot balls and Trott is content to face them out. It is not making enthralling viewing - it is stalemate that's not developing the game in anyone's favour. Razzaq bowling dirt there to let Trott find the ropes. Twice in three balls. And another four two balls later... Trott is not being distracted by the morse code.

I think an offspinner is an essential change here.

 

[King Pietersen]

Trott racing away now, got his strike rate upto 32

 

[Aritro]

Remember the names Broad, Finn, Treadwell, Bresnan and Swann as you will never see a more pitiful bowling attack in Test Cricket.

Yeah, but there's five of them.

 

[Lillian Thomson]

Yeah, but there's five of them.

If your brain can't cope with five just go for the number best suited to your intellectual capacity.