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England Cricket Tour Of Bangladesh & India
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Agreedcantersaddick said:
Hope he plays ahead of BallanceCHG said:He retired hurt to let somebody else have a knock. He must be favourite to bat in the top 5?
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Not the best start. Win the toss, ball turning square, 35-3. Duckett opened, scored 14. Ballance scored 1, how many more chances? Cook the other bat out for 4.
England can regroup I guess, not like we haven't been 30-3 before....1 -
Root (37) and Ali (13) have taken the score from 21-3 to 77 without further loss.0
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Ali given out LBW but reviewed immediately.0
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Fortunately Ali got a very feint tickle on it do not out.0
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81-3 at lunch
Root 38* (47)
Ali 17* (53)0 -
Root goes for 40 soon after the resumption. Caught by slip off the keeper's gloves.
83-4
The fact that Bangladesh bowled the 2nd over of the match with a spinner (18 year old at that) tells us all we need to know about the wicket - he now has figures of 11-2-16-30 -
Stokes bowled for 18 (33) with a peach of a ball from Shaqib
106-5
Ali hanging on in there with 22* off 930 -
Tough conditions out there, but the lack of warm up games surely isn't helping.0
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Ali given not out LBW. Bangla review and it is confirmed that the ball pitched outside leg so they have used up both their reviews - for another 30 or so overs at least.
128-5
Ali 29* (110)
Bairstow 13* (24)
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Bairstow dropped at slip.0
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Sounds like the pitch is a minefield0
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It's like batting out of the rough of the 5th day of a normal Test.McBobbin said:Sounds like the pitch is a minefield
Ali has had five reviews and they have all gone his way.0 -
154-5
Ali has his 500 -
A triumph for the review system really, rather than luck for the batsman!Addick Addict said:
It's like batting out of the rough of the 5th day of a normal Test.McBobbin said:Sounds like the pitch is a minefield
Ali has had five reviews and they have all gone his way.1 -
173-5 off 62 at tea
Ali 61* (153)
Bairstow 26* (68)0 -
There were 34 overs in that two hour session. Don't see that very often these days but, there again, 90% of the bowling has been spin.1
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I've recorded this and been watching it behind real time.
As said, right from the start, it's like batting on a day 5 wicket.
200 is likely to set us up as a winning score if both teams play to their normal standard.
250 is definitely a good score.
So I backed England to win at 9am.
It's possibly easier for our right hand batsman, not sure if it will be the same for Bangladesh & how many right handers they have.
(That'll put the mockers on it).1 -
194-6
Ali c Mushfiqur b Mehedi 680 -
Mehdi getsAli, his 4th wicket, caught behind for a very good 68.
194-6
Bairstow 38*
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Great ball, that.0
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Bairstow's ability to come in and steer England away from danger, reminds me a bit of Doug Walters for the Aussies, when I was a kid. If we ever had them in trouble, he was often hard to dislodge.
209-6 Bairstow 43 no0 -
Ballance, why do we keep on picking him?1
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Bairstow gets his 50
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And then the"kiss of death" strikes as he is bowled trying to work one to leg.0
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Because he built up a lot of "goodwill" not to say a Test average of over 70 against some impotent attacks - mostly in this country. I said at that time that his technique wasn't good enough and that he would get "worked out" and he has been.dickplumb said:Ballance, why do we keep on picking him?
Just a question as to whether (and assuming he doesn't get a score in the 2nd innings) they drop him for the 2nd Test. I suspect they won't but that will only prolong the agony.0 -
Bangla waste the first of their two new ball reviews.
239-7
Mehedi, on his Test debut and still 18, has the remarkable figures of 30-5-60-50 -
Literally everyone except GB and his mum and maybe a couple of the selectors wants Hameed to play the Second Test, maybe Duckett at 3 (where I reckon he'll end up anyway)3
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I think Duckett will end up at 3 but would have him at 4 for now with Hameed opening and leaving Root a 3. That way, if Cook goes early we don't have both Hameed and Duckett facing the new ball.Leuth said:Literally everyone except GB and his mum and maybe a couple of the selectors wants Hameed to play the Second Test, maybe Duckett at 3 (where I reckon he'll end up anyway)
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258-7 off 92 overs at close
Woakes 36* (77)
Rashid 5* (28)
Despite the relatively low score we should, providing our spinners perform, be well ahead in the game.2
