**Official** England in Bangladesh 2016

[indiaholic]

***** wont like that

***** doesn't care. As soon as he felt Bangladesh was not playing well, he went off to his mma classes.

Any and all sympathy you feel towards Bangladeshi fans should be directed towards AZH.

 

[Adders]

Any and all sympathy you feel towards Bangladeshi fans should be directed towards AZH.

There should be none. These ****s are going to win this.

 

[TT Boy]

surely Warner must be close to holding that title

Period in question I was looking at (March 15 2014 to today) Kayes was above Warner and Hafeez. Tamim was just above Warner as well.

 

[indiaholic]

There should be none. These ****s are going to win this.

This should be true but Bangladesh has the potential to be all out within 40 more runs. Probably the likely outcome too..

 

[Furball]

I think you could maybe argue that resting Broad was smart player management rather than arrogance, but there's no reason Batty needed a rest. That was just arrogant IMO.

Or perhaps the selectors though' we've already got an offspinner, why don't we get a look at the guy who bowls slow left arm'.

Particularly when India's top order is almost exclusively right handed.

 

[vcs]

Very balanced match, Bangladesh keep letting England back into it with brain-fades.

 

[vcs]

No pressure Zafar, you have looked as nervous as a small nun on a penguin shoot so far. Hope you do better.

Interesting metaphor.

 

[cnerd123]

***** doesn't care. As soon as he felt Bangladesh was not playing well, he went off to his mma classes.

Any and all sympathy you feel towards Bangladeshi fans should be directed towards AZH.

In my defence I pay for a certain number of classes per month, and I havent completed my quota for this month yet and cant really go tomorrow due to Diwali or Monday due to work stuff, and had I waited till the end of day's play i'd have missed all the classes schedule for today.
I had planned to go for classes at this time since the start of the week; it had nothing to do with the current match scenario.

But I do get to support India tear things up at home and AZH is actually Bangladeshi, so yes he does deserve a lot more sympathy than I do.


But ****ing hell, of course we throw away a good situation with a dumb shot at the end of the day. Of course.

Its all these brain fades and moments that are costing us this game. We were so good in the first test; all the bad habits had to emerge in the second on. Zzzz.

 

[AndyZaltzHair]

Can the collapse happen after the lead of 250 pls

Carrying two passengers in the team. Still not sure why do you need Hom's offspin when shakib, taijul and miraz are there. Should have just picked Mosaddek. Cant emphasis the point enough.

About the pitch, it did not look like deteriorating enough live although I was far out sitting but could get an idea. Not sure how its going to play out in the next days. How much rain we get will play a factor.

 

[vcs]

Bangladesh would have to stretch it past 300 for them to be favourites, even then it'd only be marginal with England's lower order. Long long way to go to get there yet.

 

[harsh.ag]

Can the collapse happen after the lead of 250 pls

Carrying two passengers in the team. Still not sure why do you need Hom's offspin when shakib, taijul and miraz are there. Should have just picked Mosaddek. Cant emphasis the point enough.

About the pitch, it did not look like deteriorating enough live although I was far out sitting but could get an idea. Not sure how its going to play out in the next days. How much rain we get will play a factor.

Yeah.

Also think it might turn out to be a blessing they lost that wicket just then. Could have triggered a collapse had it happened first thing tomorrow morning. Now they can try and get in a decent frame of mind overnight.

 

[smash84]

all of the english bowlers seem to have terrible econ rates. Ansari has 2 wickets. how did he bowl? Does he have potential to be put into the squad for india?

 

[Prince EWS]

Carrying two passengers in the team. Still not sure why do you need Hom's offspin when shakib, taijul and miraz are there. Should have just picked Mosaddek. Cant emphasis the point enough.

The thing with this is that I actually think Mosaddek has more to work from with his bowling than Hom anyway. I was kind of surprised when Hom became a genuine allrounder in domestic cricket in the first place but Mosaddek to me looks like he could have become a proper bowler at at least that level if that's what he devoted his time to.

 

[AndyZaltzHair]

Bangladesh would have to stretch it past 300 for them to be favourites, even then it'd only be marginal with England's lower order. Long long way to go to get there yet.

Agree with this. Even with 300 I'm not that optimistic. NZ chased 300, Australia chased 300 in bd before.

Cook due to get runs in the series and England's lower order is mammoth.

 

[AndyZaltzHair]

The thing with this is that I actually think Mosaddek has more to work from with his bowling than Hom anyway. I was kind of surprised when Hom became a genuine allrounder in domestic cricket in the first place but Mosaddek to me looks like he could have become a proper bowling at at least that level if that's what he devoted his time to.

Think they looked at it like this. The spot at no.8 to be taken by either Hom or Mosaddek. Since Hom has slight edge to his bowling than Mosaddek at the moment, they picked Hom although he is far inferior batsman than Mosaddek. But it was wrong decision because a player with superior bowling ability was not required when Miraz is doing more than fine job with Shakib and Taijul. So a player with inferior bowling ability and superior batting ability should have taken the spot at no. 8. And more so keeping in mind the prone to collapse. Hom in no way going to stop the collapse.

 

[Prince EWS]

Think they looked at it like this. The spot at no.8 to be taken by either Hom or Mosaddek. Since Hom has slight edge to his bowling than Mosaddek at the moment, they picked Hom although he is far inferior batsman than Mosaddek. But it was wrong decision because a player with superior bowling ability was not required when Miraz is doing more than fine job with Shakib and Taijul. So a player with inferior bowling ability and superior batting ability should have taken the spot at no. 8. And more so keeping in mind the prone to collapse. Hom in no way going to stop the collapse.

Yeah I completely agree, but even if you look past that I think they're working on a bit of a false premise in Hom's supposedly superior bowling anyway. He's more accomplished so far but I actually think Mosaddek is more likely to trouble Test batsmen with the ball.

 

[cnerd123]

Yea agree with PEWS. Moses looked really good with the ball in the ODIs. Definitely a lot more potential than Hom

If he worked on his bowling too, an attack with him, Fizzy and Mirage would be so ****ing good.

 

[AndyZaltzHair]

Yeah I completely agree, but even if you look past that I think they're working on a bit of a false premise in Hom's supposedly superior bowling anyway. He's more accomplished so far but I actually think Mosaddek is more likely to trouble Test batsmen with the ball.

It's chandika who is a fan of Hom and I dont know why. Maybe because he wanted someone like Moeen Ali in the team to do the job with spinning option and also a good bat at lower order. On that basis, Hom probably suited his gameplan more than anyone else. At that time Mosaddek was still building himself up from being a gun under 19 player. But now with Mosaddek in the scenario it just does not make sense to stick with Hom anymore.

 

[cnerd123]

I mean, Hom's a handsome guy and a good close fielder and I bet he's real funny and charming with the ladies, but picking him is the kinda thing you see Kohli do.

 

[Shri]

I mean, Hom's a handsome guy and a good close fielder and I bet he's real funny and charming with the ladies, but picking him is the kinda thing you see Kohli do.

With *****'s luck, he will score an unlikely fifty from wherever the **** he bats tomorrow and take a 5 fer.