**Official** England in Bangladesh 2016

[GIMH]

This is a really good point. The answer is, it depends on what argument you want to make at the time, and more importantly who you're arguing with.. So say we are playing England and I want to tip a bucket on them and piss off Corrin as well as annoy *****, I'll say Stokes did some downhill skiing against a **** side, but if someone from the subcontinent is saying he's no good when he misses out in a game, I'll happily point to these runs as proof of what a good player he is, given the match situation and the pitch etc etc

Won't bother with Ali though. He's a finger spinning allrounder and they're all a waste of time.

Mate, you know you don't need to make an effort to piss me off

 

[Furball]

The important question now is when Stokes and Ali are analysed a year from now on CW, will these runs be deemed worthy or discarded because at CW, we don't consider Bangladesh and Zimbabwe for purposes of discussion

Would you diregard that Inzi ton against Bangladesh from 10 or so years ago?

 

[Howe_zat]

Broad needs to start scraping up the pitch IMO. Get running down the middle. Dive for easy singles.

 

[Stace]

Stupid so so stupid.

 

[Adders]

He heard you Howe but obviously didn;t understand the easy part. **** sakes.

 

[Daemon]

Broad needs to start scraping up the pitch IMO. Get running down the middle. Dive for easy singles.

Well played

 

[Howe_zat]

Easy singles FFS

who's going to cheat now

 

[Starfighter]

Absolute shocker that.

 

[Tom Flint]

Woakes after some red ink here

 

[91Jmay]

That is dreadful. Need at least 20 more still.

 

[Daemon]

3 things are certain to happen today

1. weldone posts another one of his hilarious Bengali translations
2. ***** posts another list of highly specific predictions, still high on the confidence of his accurate predictions in the first ODI despite getting most things wrong thereafter
3. Bangladesh lose

 

[Tom Flint]

Batty running down the middle of the pitch. Good lad

 

[Howe_zat]

Gareth isn't much of a batty any more is he

 

[Adders]

Furball - 210
Brumbers - 230
Howe 241
Hazza - 243
Dan 247
SK Dave - 252
Starfighter - 255
Flib - 266
Drive Club - 275
Adders - 310
AZH - 400 ()

Howe the winner then.......long way short of what I thought, but thanks to AZH's Gambhiring meant I wasn't the futherest out.

 

[cricman]

England to win by 20 runs or so.

Should be exciting

 

[91Jmay]

Really bad run out, 10 extra runs could be vital. Broad/Woakes need to make up for it now. Wonder who gets the new ball.

 

[vcs]

Bangladesh will reach 100/2 at which point there'll be a few panic attacks among our resident England contingent, and then they'll promptly collapse for 150 or so.

 

[Howe_zat]

First time England have opened with two spinners since... Mumbai 2012?

 

[Daemon]

fmd it looks ridiculously hard to bat against this new ball.

 

[91Jmay]

New ball wickets absolutely crucial. It is easier to survive when ball goes softer.

Bangladesh looking aggressive though, if they get off to a flier will put the cat amongst the pigeons for sure.