**Official** England in Bangladesh 2016

[MW1304]

Yeah it's a bad start but 56/0 can happen in a power play, if we can stifle the run rate in the middle overs then...oh

 

[Jono]

Haha Tamim wag.

 

[neville cardus]

That's the ICC.

No. By far the majority of those hits are opinion pieces. Go on and click one.

If I'm not mistaken they've also rated pitches in Eng, SA and WI as poor over the last few years. awaiting Exhibit B in anticipation

Dileep Premachandran writes at length about the phenomenon here:

https://www.theguardian.com/sport/blog/2009/aug/26/oval-ashes-pitch-india-cricket

And here's another exhibit:

Selective watering the secret to 'ugly' pitch | Cricket | ESPN Cricinfo

Anyway, this is ****ing woeful by England.

They're returning the favour. Very sporting of them.

 

[Pothas]

Yeah it's a bad start but 56/0 can happen in a power play, if we can stifle the run rate in the middle overs then...oh

Haha to be fair it is still kind of true.

 

[weldone]

Make many runs in the first 40 overs, and then patiently defend against Stokes till the 2nd new ball comes.

 

[neville cardus]

these reverse sweeps are awesome to watch but calm the **** down tamim

I know, right? Heart in mouth every time he shapes for one.

 

[fredfertang]

Now it will start to look more like a Test match

 

[Shri]

Exhibit A: Nagpur 2015.

https://www.google.com/search?num=1...0..0.0....0...1c.1.64.serp..7.0.0._iHg2hIORsM

That was an appalling call by everyone. It was a rank turner but did you watch the game or remember how the wickets fell? Because of at least one umpire error and a lot of balls that the batsmen failed to pick. Andy Flower batted better in worse pitches in his prime and even Cook(as much as I hate to admit it) and Pietersen showed people how to score on such pitches. If that test had been against England in the 2012 series, they would have won, and none of these calls would have been heard. Its this disgusting new culture that has propped up recently that preaches that SC teams should be guilty of their home victories and the morons who subscribe to that line of thought can **** off.

My last rant, ironically, just like yours, does not apply to most posters on this forum who agree with me. So we are basically two dudes screaming about two teams not involved in this test with irrelevant data, really.

 

[flibbertyjibber]

Well this is going well. The choice of Finn and Ansari really looks justified.

 

[neville cardus]

As things stand, Bangladesh are going quicker in a Test Match on a bowler's wicket than India in an ODI on a flat one.

 

[Adders]

Haha. Athers giving high praise to Stokes with his "Cometh the hour" Flintoff reference.

 

[Shri]

Hope Tamim tons up again. Will probably be the first Banger to do so twice in a test.

 

[Jono]

Man it'd be so great if England's hubris was punished and they lost. ffs do this Banglas

 

[neville cardus]

That was an appalling call by everyone. It was a rank turner but did you watch the game or remember how the wickets fell?

I do, yes. I thought it was great.

Because of at least one umpire error and a lot of balls that the batsmen failed to pick. Andy Flower batted better in worse pitches in his prime and even Cook(as much as I hate to admit it) and Pietersen showed people how to score on such pitches. If that test had been against England in the 2012 series, they would have won, and none of these calls would have been heard. Its this disgusting new culture that has propped up recently that preaches that SC teams should be guilty of their home victories and the morons who subscribe to that line of thought can **** off.

That's exactly the viewpoint I'm pushing back against. I'm pleasantly surprised to find it's so foreign to this forum's contributors.

My last rant, ironically, just like yours, does not apply to most posters on this forum who agree with me. So we are basically two dudes screaming about two teams not involved in this test with irrelevant data, really.

Screaming? Come now.

 

[Adders]

Entertaining stuff, but you just know there's going to be a clatter of wickets before too long

If we've learn't anything from these 2 tests so far as that both sets of fans should should check their euphoria/pessimism.......plenty of twists and turns to come yet me thinks.

 

[91Jmay]

We done Zafar. Was a good bit of bowling to a plan. Needed Tamin.

 

[Jono]

wahh ****ing wahhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhh

 

[Prince EWS]

Huge.

 

[Shri]

Hope Tamim tons up again. Will probably be the first Banger to do so twice in a test.

 

[OverratedSanity]

Jeez been a good series

Yeah, been so entertaining.

Dammit, Tamim was looking so good.