**Official** England in Bangladesh 2016

[cnerd123]

FTR it's the point of impact that counts if the batsman is at the crease, not whether the ball would have descended. Woakes' back foot was well in the crease.

Wait no thats not it.

Its a noball if it would have passed the batsman (at the crease) above waist height if he was fully upright.

That was a pretty harsh cal for noball to me

 

[GIMH]

Given the match situation, could be a huge call.

 

[flibbertyjibber]

and we batted Ansari above these two?

I could think of a few Gene Hunt putdowns to describe Ansari in this test.

 

[cnerd123]

Mushy is an awful captain ftr.

Trying too hard to be MSD with funky bowling changes and ****. But MSD does that cuz he has no option. When Ashwin and Jaddu are tearing it up he just leaves them on. I dont get why you wouldn't just stick to your three main spinners here. ****ing bizarre from Mushy and BD.

We were 170/1 and they were 150/8 ffs

 

[fredfertang]

Mushy is an awful captain ftr.

Trying too hard to be MSD with funky bowling changes and ****. But MSD does that cuz he has no option. When Ashwin and Jaddu are tearing it up he just leaves them on. I dont get why you wouldn't just stick to your three main spinners here. ****ing bizarre from Mushy and BD.

We were 170/1 and they were 150/8 ffs

He certainly hasn't covered himself in glory

 

[Shri]

Mushy is an awful captain ftr.

Trying too hard to be MSD with funky bowling changes and ****. But MSD does that cuz he has no option. When Ashwin and Jaddu are tearing it up he just leaves them on. I dont get why you wouldn't just stick to your three main spinners here. ****ing bizarre from Mushy and BD.

We were 170/1 and they were 150/8 ffs

*Left.

 

[cnerd123]

Urgh

**** this, im off to punch and kick things

I never learn with this team. I never learn.

 

[neville cardus]

They're suffering, Bangladesh, for having played so little Test cricket lately. By no means the only explanation for their panic and impatience, but I think it's the best one.

 

[morgieb]

Mushy is an awful captain ftr.

Trying too hard to be MSD with funky bowling changes and ****. But MSD does that cuz he has no option. When Ashwin and Jaddu are tearing it up he just leaves them on. I dont get why you wouldn't just stick to your three main spinners here. ****ing bizarre from Mushy and BD.

We were 170/1 and they were 150/8 ffs

Yeah if the partnership was 50+ it might make sense to go funky. But it was only 30 and they weren't scoring that fast. A significant clanger there.

 

[neville cardus]

Urgh

**** this, im off to punch and kick things

I never learn with this team. I never learn.

Cheer up, mate. Time was when these teams were separated by way more than mere inexperience, impatience and poor captaincy. Plenty grounds for optimism here.

 

[morgieb]

I'll also add that overs 40-50 seems like the worst time for the bowling side in terms of breaking a partnership. You don't get the benefit of the new ball until a long time afterwards, and given Bangladesh's lack of seamers they can't do anything different without being too funky.

 

[greg]

What law was supposed to have been broken on that noball? Do they have different playing conditions in test matches - the laws say it's shoulder height for a slow bowler.

 

[flibbertyjibber]

What law was supposed to have been broken on that noball? Do they have different playing conditions in test matches - the laws say it's shoulder height for a slow bowler.

Different rule for tests, anything above waist height. Still looked like it would have been below waist height had he not had a bent leg as he struck the ball.

Was out.

 

[Pothas]

We are a ridiculous side.

 

[Adders]

Jeez mate, 3-30 isn't making an impact with the ball?

I'm certainly not gonna sit here and ****can Woakes..........he was ****ing incredible in our summer, and he never.......I mean ever, lets us down with the bat.

But did you see his wickets yesterday? 3/30 looks good mate, but those figures really do prove the old saying that **** get's wickets.......he was very lucky.

Edit:

It just dawned on me that maybe your smiley at the end indicates you already know this.

 

[OverratedSanity]

What a stupid batting lineup

 

[Howe_zat]

10 wicket partnership records talk

Current record: Biggest 9th wicket stand for England in Asia

Possible records
163 for biggest 9th wicket stand for England (Cowdrey and Alan Smith v NZ in 1963)
184 for biggest 9th wicket stand in Bangladesh/Asia (Mahmadullah and Abul Hasan in 2012)
195 for biggest 9th wicket stand (Boucher and Symcox v Pakistan in 1998)

...I am entirely to blame and no I'm not deleting it all

 

[flibbertyjibber]

Good catch, that is why he is in the side then. Specialist close fielder.

Great partnership.

 

[grecian]

Damn they bowl a good bowler, and a wicket goes, who'd have thunk it?

Decent innings though, and really should have been out before. Wonder ifAdil will smash it, Finn not a bad bat, but can't see him lasting long here.

 

[hazsa19]

BD posters can stop losing their **** now. Top catch that.