**Official** England in Bangladesh 2016

[Adders]

If the podcast is still going in 2019 I will be too famous to remember you.

Oh you'll remember me.....I'll be one of those creepy groupies who's everywhere you look

 

[flibbertyjibber]

Have to say he goes up in my estimation for that sort of attitude, way way up in fact

Definitely when you consider what Rashid did with Yorkshire going for the title but he may have harmed his own career doing it as 6 months ago when he was injured you would never have thought Woakes would be a clear pick ahead of him and he now is and who knows what Ball may do over the coming months as well.

 

[Prince EWS]

Have to say he goes up in my estimation for that sort of attitude, way way up in fact

Yeah give me a Wood over a Rashid any day on that front, even from an England perspective.

 

[theegyptian]

Have to say he goes up in my estimation for that sort of attitude, way way up in fact

There's commitment to your county and then there is foolhardy bravado. This definitely falls into the second for me.

This is a guy who has been constantly injured with ankle problems. Who is payed not by Durham but by the ECB. Has an important winter coming up and yet he decides to play when already injured.

 

[91Jmay]

Rashid having time off in large because of a personal issue is apparently worse than Mark Wood being an idiot and playing injured.

 

[fredfertang]

There's commitment to your county and then there is foolhardy bravado. This definitely falls into the second for me.

This is a guy who has been constantly injured with ankle problems. Who is payed not by Durham but by the ECB. Has an important winter coming up and yet he decides to play when already injured.

I can see where you're coming from, but this is about the sort of loyalty, commitment and selflessness you virtually never see in professional sport these days

 

[91Jmay]

Would hope for a sub 200 score from here. Pitch is turning.

 

[91Jmay]

I can see where you're coming from, but this is about the sort of loyalty, commitment and selflessness you virtually never see in professional sport these days

Playing injured hurts the team through ego and selfishness. Total opposite of the values you are mentioning.

 

[theegyptian]

Yeah give me a Wood over a Rashid any day on that front, even from an England perspective.

Yes England really getting a lot of out of Wood right now. From an England perspective this is garbage. I don't see how it's better doing what Wood did as opposed to Rashid. Rashid turned up fit for a tour, Wood put himself out injured for another 6 months.

Wood has to look at what Anderson and Broad do. They prioritise international cricket. They missed the end of the county season to try and be at peak fitness and form for England - the pinnacle of the game and their employers. They'll play injured for England if they have to (like wood did for durham) but they won't run that risk for their counties.

County supporters won't like it but that is how it should be imo.

Wood has got to decide whether he wants to be a county player or an international player.

 

[fredfertang]

Playing injured hurts the team through ego and selfishness. Total opposite of the values you are mentioning.

Would've thought it served to inspire myself - sport is about passion isn't it?

Gordon Greenidge, Malcolm Marshall, Rick McCosker, Colin Cowdrey and Eddie Paynter immediately spring to mind, but there must be hundreds

 

[theegyptian]

I can see where you're coming from, but this is about the sort of loyalty, commitment and selflessness you virtually never see in professional sport these days

Yes you'd be over the moon if you were a Durham supporter/player but Wood's priority should be England imo. Maybe it isn't.

 

[Howe_zat]

Stokes is getting more bounce than expected, looks good, but the guy who averages 70 in first class looks a bit clueless.

 

[91Jmay]

Moeen looking really good here. Their spin might be a handful on here, so can't let them get to many.

 

[91Jmay]

That is a terrible referral.

 

[Howe_zat]

Think that one bad over from Stokes persuaded Buttler to take him off too easily. These two would much rather face spin from both ends.

Of course Rashid gets the wicket as I type.

 

[91Jmay]

Yeah give me a Wood over a Rashid any day on that front, even from an England perspective.

That is unfathomably stupid. One is bowling well and helping England win matches, the other is injured yet again because he can't behave like a professional and look after his body.

 

[Howe_zat]

Mortaza has remembered that he can bat?

Would have been handy in the last game. Probably a bit late here.

 

[91Jmay]

Not sure why he bowled another over of spin anyway with all the overs Ball/Woakes/Willey have left. Hope it doesn't come back to haunt us.

<210 should be the aim.

 

[91Jmay]

If Willey had got back to the stumps properly there could have run him out. Great bit of fielding from Roy, really enigmatic fielder.

 

[Howe_zat]

Starting to look quite tired in the field after a very good first 30 or so.