*Official* Bangladesh in the West Indies, NOV 22 to DEC 19- 2024

[AndyZaltzHair]

Probably the most important wicket. But we need Athanaze soon

 

[Aritro]

I'm starting to breathe easier. Now get hodge before he does something heroic

 

[SillyCowCorner1]

We’re cooking…

 

[Aritro]

Hodge looks fantastic against spin so far

 

[SillyCowCorner1]

WI are 123-4

@ashley bach

 

[SillyCowCorner1]

Bat until the cows come home.

The match is interestingly poise. Close.

 

[cricman]

Bangladesh has a bowling attack that can consistently get 20 wickets now. If Tamim Iqbal has anything left in the tank, I wouldn't be opposed to him coming back to give the top Order some resemblance of a recognized batter, especially for this next wtc cycle.

 

[TT Boy]

Great win. This Rana is as fun to watch as the Indian one. Bangladesh needs to protect him.

 

[TT Boy]

Bangladesh has a bowling attack that can consistently get 20 wickets now. If Tamim Iqbal has anything left in the tank, I wouldn't be opposed to him coming back to give the top Order some resemblance of a recognized batter, especially for this next wtc cycle.

They have depth as well. Decent pacers on the sideline.

 

[ashley bach]

Well done Bangladesh that's a great response after the 1st test result. Shame there's no decider.

 

[Ali TT]

Both sides with some decent bowlers but terrible batting. Enjoyed watching bits of this series though; crying out for a deciding test but never mind.

 

[Beamer]

The most important thing to say about this is simply congratulations Bangladesh. To draw a series away, against a bowling attack like ours, with some of their own main batters missing, is a great achievement.

I loved watching Rana bowl, not just his pace but he was pretty accurate as well. He will cause lots of sides problems and his mere presence makes the medium fast bowlers like Taskin and Mahmood much more effective as batters hang on the back foot (not that ours do anything other than that, but I digress).

But above all I was impressed with how Bangladesh took control by changing their batting approach in the second innings. It was brave considering the quality of pace they were facing, but they had to do something different and it worked. Yes there was an unusual amount of luck throughout the innings, but frankly they deserved it because they tried to take on the game and we didn't.

The better side won this test and you would have to conclude over the series that these are two pretty evenly matched sides.

 

[Prince EWS]

The most important thing to say about this is simply congratulations Bangladesh. To draw a series away, against a bowling attack like ours, with some of their own main batters missing, is a great achievement.

I loved watching Rana bowl, not just his pace but he was pretty accurate as well. He will cause lots of sides problems and his mere presence makes the medium fast bowlers like Taskin and Mahmood much more effective as batters hang on the back foot (not that ours do anything other than that, but I digress).

But above all I was impressed with how Bangladesh took control by changing their batting approach in the second innings. It was brave considering the quality of pace they were facing, but they had to do something different and it worked. Yes there was an unusual amount of luck throughout the innings, but frankly they deserved it because they tried to take on the game and we didn't.

The better side won this test and you would have to conclude over the series that these are two pretty evenly matched sides.

Mehidy deciding to bat 4 himself when Mominul was injured and then playing some glorious shots on a tricky pitch was awesome tbh.

 

[Beamer]

As for us, I really hope this is the moment when it finally clicks that grindball batting a) does not work and b) utterly fails to capture the publics imagination.

This batting lineup is a complete disgrace, I struggle to watch it as a complete diehard so how do they expect others to?

It really is beyond time to call up the white ball players and just see what happens, they have nothing at all to lose as it couldn't be worse than this. At the very least get Hope and King in who actually wants to play red ball cricket. Pooran would be the dream but he has to want it. Lots of work on the next generation is going on behind the scenes but we simply can't go on like this in the meantime. What will be left when they do arrive?

Our bowlers deserve so much better, they are consistently bowling sides out even though these dunderheads are dropping ridiculous numbers of catches on top of scoring no runs.

 

[Fuller Pilch]

even though these dunderheads are dropping ridiculous numbers of catches on top of scoring no runs.

I feel your pain...

Great to see all the good young quicks in test cricket though

 

[SillyCowCorner1]

First of all, congratulations to Bangladesh Tigers and their supporters. This test series was heating up, the level of banter and sledging is up there with the best.

Back in the day of 5-test series, it would have been fun to see how each team go into the third test...

The approach by our batters in the first innings after knocking out BD for 164 was atrocious. You put your foot down and dictate the processings from there...instead, we have our openers block and block, without even advancing the score by much. It created an atmosphere of digging themselves into a hole. Backward mindset.

Moving on to positive things. Bangladesh, I admire the fight from them, Miraz was the skipper they needed all along, the guy's got the leadership trait already (having captained a bunch of these guys in under-19 cricket).

Not much to say as I've posted in earlier posts.

Now, onto Darren Sammy's team.