*Official* West Indies Tour of Bangladesh 2018

[OverratedSanity]

Are they playing on a dust bowl?

Yep

 

[Prince EWS]

Obviously the pitch has deteriorated a fair bit as well, but the longer this game has gone the more obvious the even-obvious-at-the-time absolutely terrible bowling from Bishoo and Chase on Day 1 has been.

 

[mr_mister]

I actually thought Ambris would be more of a loose slogger than even Hetmyer

He's shown this match he's certainly willing to bat time

 

[Flametree]

Argh, would have loved these two to get it down to 35 or so. Would have been really interesting...

 

[fredfertang]

Would much rather be watching this than the England/Lanka game - time to try and find a stream

 

[fredfertang]

Would much rather be watching this than the England/Lanka game - time to try and find a stream

My fault - sorry folks!

 

[Flametree]

Would much rather be watching this than the England/Lanka game - time to try and find a stream

All Bangladesh tests at the moment are on GTV Live on YouTube. It's awesome...

 

[Bahnz]

Well done Bangladesh, now double it. Would be really good to see them finally win a series against a top 8 opponent.

 

[Beamer]

Entertaining test, sad we came short but we have batting deficiencies and will struggle until we sort them out.

Only thing I would say is that the team that won the toss was always likely to win as conditions got dramatically worse. I'm confident we would have won if batting first and that's not great.

 

[Beamer]

Obviously the pitch has deteriorated a fair bit as well, but the longer this game has gone the more obvious the even-obvious-at-the-time absolutely terrible bowling from Bishoo and Chase on Day 1 has been.

Yep agreed. A combination of day 1 being the only day where batting conditions weren't really tricky and those two bowling badly meant we were behind the eight ball.

 

[Beamer]

Also, Powell's shot must be right up there as one of the worst by a top order batsman. Unreal. He must be dropped.

 

[andruid]

So the Windies respond to Bangladesh's collapse, by collapsing more tragically

 

[Borges]

Only thing I would say is that the team that won the toss was always likely to win as conditions got dramatically worse.

Yes.

 

[Beamer]

On the plus side Ambris looked much better today. Hopefully that's a sign of things to come.

Been thinking about where Bangladesh and West Indies cricket is at. I think if there's pace in the pitch we absolutely thrash them. If it's a raging turner it's closer but Bangladesh will usually win.

It will be interesting in the next test if we win the toss and bat. That will be a true test if Bangladesh. Considering they've won tests against England and Australia here, I would consider 1-1 a reasonable result.

 

[Borges]

Been thinking about where Bangladesh and West Indies cricket is at. I think if there's pace in the pitch we absolutely thrash them. If it's a raging turner it's closer but Bangladesh will usually win.

Who would you fancy if the pitch is something like the ones that West Indies got in India?

 

[Beamer]

Who would you fancy if the pitch is something like the ones that West Indies got in India?

Probably fairly even tbh as there was a little bit for the quicks if not much.

 

[mr_mister]

Would Bangladesh ever not prepare a raging turner. It levels the playing field for them so theyl keep doing it

 

[Beamer]

Would Bangladesh ever not prepare a raging turner. It levels the playing field for them so theyl keep doing it

Agreed and we, like everyone else, will just have to find a way to deal with it. Charging down the wicket first ball is probably not the answer......

However, this approach will lead to them getting absolutely embarrassed overseas like they were in the Caribbean. That is something they are going to have to work out.

 

[Beamer]

Imrul Kayes is out of the 2nd test.

This feels like more bad news for us. He's never looked like scoring runs against us.

 

[jimmy101]

WI a good chance to square up the series IMO.