***Official*** Bangladesh in England

[shaka]

current score: 84/5 off 25 overs

 

[FaaipDeOiad]

If anyone wants to keep track of the game and doesn't have it on TV (as Foxtel in Australia isn't showing it), it's on BBC Radio online.

http://news.bbc.co.uk/sport1/hi/cricket/default.stm#

 

[Richard]

This lunchtime feature on C4 is FAR more interesting than the live play.

 

[Neil Pickup]

Mortaza takes the title from Ashraful.

Two steps away to leg every ball...
1) Play and miss
2) Play and miss
3) Comprehensively bowled

 

[superkingdave]

if he's batting at number 9, what's no.11 like?

 

[superkingdave]

Hoggard bowls the sixteen year old, nice ball, top of off. 98-9

 

[Adamc]

if he's batting at number 9, what's no.11 like?

He's only batting at nine because he can hit huge sixes. By which I mean he can hit Stuart MacGill for huge sixes.

 

[Kweek]

and theyre all out. go england and make alot of runs :d

 

[superkingdave]

he he Shahadat bowling well, 4-0-41-0, Mortaza is actually bowling ok

 

[Richard]

if he's batting at number 9, what's no.11 like?

The eleven actually looked far better.
Why anyone even bothers making fun of Mortaza and the like I don't know, it's just so wholly predictable.

 

[Scaly piscine]

he he Shahadat bowling well, 4-0-41-0, Mortaza is actually bowling ok

Yep, Tresco and Strauss have already overtaken all of the Bangladesh individual scores.

 

[Richard]

he he Shahadat bowling well, 4-0-41-0, Mortaza is actually bowling ok

Bowling utter rubbish, especially given the way Jones and Hoggard especially bowled earlier.
Practically everything short, even when it's blatantly obvious that Strauss and Trescothick are primarily back-foot players.
And given that he can't possibly be so stupid as to not notice that short is not the way to go, the only possibility is that he's not good enough to correct the faults.

 

[Richard]

Hoggard bowls the sixteen year old, nice ball, top of off. 98-9

Nowhere near as good as the Jones one to Javed Omar, best delivery I've seen for quite some time.

 

[Kweek]

cool good to see jones bowling well.
whois this BBC commentator with that woeful voice.

 

[superkingdave]

yeah after his first over Jones bowled well, was unlucky only to get the one wicket i thought, especially as Harmison and Hoggards first spells were pretty awful.

anyway at this rate, England will have 300 before the end of play

 

[aussie]

looking good England bowling stupid BAN for 108 and now are rolling along at 70/0 couldn't ask for a better start to the season

 

[steds]

How ironic. In the tea time feature about a cricket in schools initiative, Mark Nicholas, of all people, says he thinks cricket is too posh.

 

[BoyBrumby]

I'm hoping England have a good long bat tomorrow so I get to watch a bit on Sat. Stuck at work at the mo.

 

[Scaly piscine]

How ironic. In the tea time feature about a cricket in schools initiative, Mark Nicholas, of all people, says he thinks cricket is too posh.

I think most of the problems stem from lazy PE teachers who would much rather just get a couple of footballs and that's their job done. My secondary school had all of the equipment needed, but we played cricket indoors about once a year.

 

[steds]

I think most of the problems stem from lazy PE teachers who would much rather just get a couple of footballs and that's their job done. My secondary school had all of the equipment needed, but we played cricket indoors about once a year.

The problem in my school was that I was the only one who actually wanted to play cricket. The my classes were always split down the middle, with the scousers always wanting football and the Rugby League loving wools opposing them.