**Official** England in Bangladesh 2016

[flibbertyjibber]

harsh but fair I feel

Think the fact he is useful under the helmet will probably give him the next game. Not that it should.

 

[Jono]

Not really, it's been up to the interpretation of the umpire (or 3rd umps more recently) since the days of Grace.

haha, yeah I was thinking the same. Concept of "offering a shot" is always going to be up for interpretation.

 

[cnerd123]

Who was less useful - Ballance or Rabbi?

Also I never thought I'd see the day where Burgey defends the batting of a Bangladeshi number XI. Although I should have expected it with all his Allan Border talk tbh.

 

[grecian]

I was against playing Hameed and Duckett as newbies, but in the end if Ballance, looking like he is, is the other choice, then I think we have to. Buttler maybe an outside chance, and Move Bairstow up the order, but I'm loathe to change one of the things that is working.

I wouldn't drop Duckett, he just seemed pretty nervous rather than having any faults, hopefully he'll learn.

 

[ImpatientLime]

We should have stopped picking players on their fielding merits after giles>panesar at Adelaide in 2006

 

[ImpatientLime]

I was against playing Hameed and Duckett as newbies, but in the end if Ballance, looking like he is, is the other choice, then I think we have to. Buttler maybe an outside chance, and Move Bairstow up the order, but I'm loathe to change one of the things that is working.

I wouldn't drop Duckett, he just seemed pretty nervous rather than having any faults, hopefully he'll learn.

Surely if you pick Butter you just pick him as a specialist bat in Ballances position and leave the ginge where he is

 

[Howe_zat]

It's clearly not true that Ballance is picked for fielding. We have exactly 3 specialist batsmen with both good first-class records and Test hundreds and Ballance is one of them.

 

[Bijed]

harsh but fair I feel

Yeah, I thought he might do well in these conditions, but he was disappointing. I'd drop him and move Duckett down the order so that we can have a look at Hameed. I'd also swap Rashid for Ansari, but don't expect it to happen.

 

[grecian]

Surely if you pick Butter you just pick him as a specialist bat in Ballances position and leave the ginge where he is

yeah maybe, it's not really ideal, but what is ATM. Really we just need Root and Cook to do what they can do, and it may take some pressure off the rest.

 

[Dan]

Not really, it's been up to the interpretation of the umpire (or 3rd umps more recently) since the days of Grace.

Never realised WG was still playing in 1970 tbh.

 

[Gnske]

Is Sabbir one french fry short of a happy meal or what? Brainless anti-Hussey batting with the tail.

I'm glad BD souls have been crushed.

 

[Flem274*]

Hey look we broke for lunch early

Hey look the games over

Hey look they fell 20 runs short

 

[cnerd123]

Is Sabbir one french fry short of a happy meal or what? Brainless anti-Hussey batting with the tail.

I'm glad BD souls have been crushed.

Why do u hate me Gnske I like all ure posts

 

[indiaholic]

You are not a Bangladeshi soul ffs.. But then he is hating on AZH which is way worse.

 

[harsh.ag]

You are not a Bangladeshi soul ffs.. But then he is hating on AZH which is way worse.

Much truth. Many like.

 

[Pratters]

South Africa chokes and Bangladeshi souls get crushed. Two certain things in cricket.

 

[Pratters]

Cook largely resorted to seamers on a turning, deteriorating track. Thoughts on this? Worked out fine in the end but trusting the spinners more would have been better.

 

[flibbertyjibber]

Cook largely resorted to seamers on a turning, deteriorating track. Thoughts on this? Worked out fine in the end but trusting the spinners more would have been better.

Our spinners easier to get away so went for the option that would have taken Bangladesh longer banking on the tail not lasting. That is my view anyway.

 

[OverratedSanity]

It was clearly reversing plenty. Right call.

 

[Athlai]

Great match and that first win against true Test class opponents is very close for Bangladesh. The top order looks like they can battle it out at home at this standard, the attack is showing signs of true class and Shakib and Rahim are still pretty bloody gun.