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Nice to have India worried enough that the ball boys are being told to slow down though. :D

I think our major problem seems to be that Ansari isn't a very good bowler. It's great to see Hameed coming in and doing well, just a shame that the selectors don't have that much faith in the spinners that have done well domestically.

Well Played Bangladesh. I haven't seen much of the Tests, but our issue seems to be that we can't compete with the spin bowlers we have. At least in previous years we had Swann and Panesar for Tests like this. Ali is a decent Test bowler and is almost our best by default. Ansari, Batty and...

So it turns out James Hildreth scored a Ton on a broken ankle yesterday. Incredible stuff. Looks like being an exciting climax to the season.

It's insane that you've got Leach and Rayner both potentially on the verge of bowling their sides to a County Championship and yet we've picked a bang average spinner who is well past his prime. I just don't get it. Then you've got Buttler who's played one First Class match in the last year and...

Well they've obviously both been cleared as safe, so Morgan is basing his opinion on the history in Bangladesh, so surely that should apply to everywhere. I understand him not wanting to go, but I think his judgement could be easily clouded. Another 5-for for Jack Leach today, against Yorkshire...

I've got nothing against Morgan and Hales backing out, but Morgan looks a bit silly when he cites the attacks in India as living in fear, yet he heads back there every year. I just hope Duckett makes at least one of the squads and that they pick Jack Leach as a spinner. He's been brilliant for...

I said at the start of the summer that Duckett looked a good option to open the batting in Tests, but he's knocking that door down for ODIs too. Insane scores in that Lions series. Good to see Wood back and bowling too.

He means that they (England) want to be the ones celebrating next time. It's Media Training 101. Nothing more or less too it. They literally say it every time they lose. I doubt he really cares about the actual celebration. Which we all thought was pretty cool anyway. :thumbs

I see Root has been confirmed at Number 3. Be interesting to see how he gets on if Pakistan can get one of the openers early, which you'd expect to happen a few times with their pace bowlers. I'm not against Ballance coming back in, as I always expected it at some stage, just thought they'd give...

What happened to Hammad Azam? Sounds like a properly good game at Taunton. Hildrteth getting runs is no surprise, although I hear Amir is looking very good. Didn't stop Trescothick taking a ton off him today though. I think the Pakistan team have left being very popular. Were great with local...

It's a huge pain in local club cricket. You get holes with wrong sizes for the stumps and all sorts. Then you always seem to find some that are a bit too close together to fit the bails on perfectly. I used to find sometimes that you'd have one stump being quite loose in the ground, but the...

Hopefully it'll be Borthwick next.

I can understand that if we're going well and you want someone to take a risk to keep the rate up in the Powerplay, because Buttler likes to start slowly. I just think in games like the last one, we were in trouble and needed someone just to steady the ship. Something that he's naturally quite...

Great game of cricket. Buttler's innings is becoming more common, must be gutting for him that when another batsman comes in, he gets shunted down the order. Woakes was good too. Probably needs to learn a bit more about hitting boundaries at the end, but he'll get that with experience. He was...