Black_Warrior
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**Official** England in Bangladesh 2016
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flibbertyjibber
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Very useful 5 runs there.
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Combination of all 3.
Anything over 200 will be bloody hard to get so just need to double our current score.
Black_Warrior
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I am surprised by the amount of turn to be honest. BD have produced some real flat tracks in the recent past.
Howe_zat
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As is usually the case, a fair bit of all of them.
No question the Bangladesh spinners have bowled some cracking stuff, with considerable assistance from a pitch that has led to them ignoring their seamers. But you feel experienced players with a lot more previous runs in Asia could have dealt with it better, considering the presence of our old friend, the **** sweep shot.
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Possibly watched what India are doing to sides and realised it worth a go. Play to your strengths and all that.
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That many?
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Also Rashid who got a couple too looked one of the best players in the first innings as well. Bowlers doing all the work this week.
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quite a sensational all-round performance if so.
Adders
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Nah not me. I'm not concerned about this position yet (probably should be but I'm not) Our middle/lower order are building their careers on getting us to reasonable scores from **** like this........200 lead is the aim but honestly I can still see us getting more, even from here.Both the English posters and the non-English ones are desperately Gambhiring here.
Bangladesh are going to have to bat well in the 4th to win this, and if they do then fair play to them.
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TT Boy
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100 balls is some effort here let alone 100 runs.
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When you think back to Stokes the player from the UAE series v Pakistan who was basically a passenger for large parts and the player on this tour then you have to say well done to him on learning so quickly with bat and ball in both forms of the game. Becoming a seriously good player now.
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This is true, and despite his performance on that tour we used him on the podcast as one of the most improved players of 2015, giving you some kind of clue as to what he was like a year earlier.
wpdavid
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I wonder what sort of pitches we'll see if Bangladesh do win this one. There may be a temptation to produce the slow & dull tracks where neither side will be able to force a win.
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Thing is, until Mahedi turned up on this track I didn't think of spin bowling as a particular strength of Bangladesh. Obviously Shakib's a good bowler and Tijul can do a job, but it's tking advantage of the wicket that's made them particularly threatening.
Under neutral circumstances and with Taskin and Mustafizur fit I'd have said that Bangladesh have better seamers than spinners, going in.
Under neutral circumstances and with Taskin and Mustafizur fit I'd have said that Bangladesh have better seamers than spinners, going in.
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I don't think it's as deliberate as that really. They were talking before the game about how this pitch was expected to take more turn as it'd been unusually hot and dry for this time of year.
