*Official* Bangladesh vs Australia Series

[Rik]

Just because Bangar plays a digging in style, he's not automatically due such criticism.

When he can't even play any nice shots, then I can call him boring if I like. Actually I could call him anything I like because this is a free country!

 

[Rik]

I sometimes wonder what Rik would have made of Geoff Boycott, Brian Close, Trevor Bailey and one or two others I could care to mention.

Selfish, Brave and Determined...in that order.

Even though a Test match is 5 days, I don't see how a strike rate of 30 runs per 100 balls is likely to help your team win. That is my problem with Bangar. "Creepy" at least plays nice shots, Bangar looks like he's trying to block everything, weather it be good or ball ball.

 

[luckyeddie]

What about Damien Martyn?

Didn't he once take around 2 hours to score 5?

Or Mudassar Nazar? Or Rameez Raja? Or The Noob (Pataudi)?

 

[Eclipse]

Brendon Nash of Queensland took somthing like 110 balls to make 1 run last seasson I beleve.

I must say I got really board with Crawley in the Ashes and the reason he ended up getting droped was because he was scoring to slow. He actualy had a good avrage but 21 runs off over 200 balls was just rediculas.

 

[V Reddy]

Or The Noob (Pataudi)?

He must have been some player to have batted with one eye in the latter part of his career:O

 

[luckyeddie]

I remember one innings in particular (in a game where England beat India) - Leeds, 1967. He was absolutely wonderful to watch. Still one of my all-time great players.

Despite the fact that Boyks hit a double hundred (undefeated) in the same game, England dropped him for 'slow scoring' - and Rik moans about Crawley!.

 

[Rich2001]

LE - Shame about your guess last night, however if you add the Bangladesh and Australia innings togeter then you was just about spot on!

 

[luckyeddie]

Yup. I went to bed at 35-2 and the wheels fell off in a collapse of Zimbabwe-***-South-Africa-esque proportions.

 

[Rich2001]

Yep I went to bed pretty much stright after you left, and they were looking quite good and a P/ship was building, wake up to find them all out for 97

However did a fine job of keeping Australia to only 2.2 an over, I don't care what anyone says about Australia having so much time left, Australia by nature are very attacking whoever they play and I can't see them changing their ways now....

 

[Rik]

and Rik moans about Crawley!.

I'm not moaning about "Creepy" scoring slowly, Mr Punter did:

Originally posted by Mr. Ponting
or John Crawley?

 

[luckyeddie]

my mistake.

 

[Rik]

my mistake.

Fair enough!

BTW you seen Cricinfo's comment on Bangar? Made me chuckle when I saw it.

Profile:
Wisden overview
A feisty allrounder who opens both the batting and the bowling for Railways in India's Ranji Trophy, Sanjay Bangar is an exciting prospect - and something of a lucky mascot for India, who won five and drew one of his first six Tests, including three rare overseas victories. Bangar bowls wicket-to-wicket at a lively pace, and can move the ball both ways. As a batsman, he has been a steady accumulator of runs at domestic level, but also has an impressive fourth gear: his lusty hitting at No. 6 helped the Board President's XI to a victory in the 1998 Wills Trophy. An untimely injury kept him out of cricket for a while, but he returned in style, with a fine hundred against Zimbabwe in only his second Test, batting at No. 7, before moving to the top of the order to play a crucial role in India?s historic innings victory over England at Headingley in 2002.(Amit Varma)

Fiesty?

What was even funnier was when Cricinfo had their own (non-Wisden) profile and they called him a "Geniune All-Rounder" hmmmmm

 

[Mr. P]

Hows about we go back to talking about Bangladesh v Australia.

Who reckons it will be over today? I say no. Even if Australia do declare early, (say 350) the ground is really slow and making that should take most of the day. The only way i see Australia winning today is by declaring at 250 and bowling them out for another sub-100 score.

 

[Neil Pickup]

Most impressed with Bangladesh and disappointed with Ponting and Hayden for getting out.

Give Davenell a few years and he'll have them fighting much more closely.

 

[Craig]

Lehmann is 94* at lunch.

If you want slow, try Alec Bannerman - he took 3 days to score 96

 

[Mr. P]

australia 7/407 dec.

d lehmann 110

a gilchrist 43

s waugh 100*

 

[age_master]

Gilchrist batted well, shame about playing on, same with hayden though...

Congrats to Lehmann and Waugh on their centuries, top stuff

 

[Mr. P]

bangla at 70/1. they're batting fairly well. sarker and co playing nicely.

 

[Eclipse]

How massive was Brett Lee's six! :O :O

 

[Mr Mxyzptlk]

Lehmann is 94* at lunch.

If you want slow, try Alec Bannerman - he took 3 days to score 96

Marlon Samuels took a day and 23 minutes to score 8 against Sri Lanka this year. However, the day was rained out.