England 'A' in Bangladesh

[Sureshot]

I've found the only updated scorecard*

http://www.tigercricket.com/Score.aspx?matchid=576

* That I can find anyway.

 

[BigCrickNan]

I've found the only updated scorecard*

http://www.tigercricket.com/Score.aspx?matchid=576

* That I can find anyway.

I wouldn't read much into the bowling figures on that page, it says Broad has one and the scorecard says 3

 

[Sureshot]

If you can count then you should be okay, Mr Drewcy.

Carberry is in the runs again, good for him.

 

[puddleduck]

Nice to see our A team also lets teams off the hook from things like 45-5

And that they follow Fletchers favourite surprise tactic of playing two wicket keepers. So far it seems Davies is consistently getting decent scores which is promising.

 

[Sureshot]

Well it makes sense of playing two keepers. Both get plenty of Cricket, it suggests one of them will be playing Test Cricket come May.

 

[puddleduck]

I'm guessing Prior is keeping? Mainly because he's fairly useless in the outfield, and I would suggest there are more doubts about his keeping ability than Davies. If these two really are playing for a spot in the test side for next season it would appear Davies has edged his name in front.

 

[Sureshot]

3 innings into the tour and you've made up your mind?

Prior is keeping I believe. We have to pick one of those two, so far ahead of Nixon it's untrue.

 

[puddleduck]

Nah I actually think they should give Davies more time in county cricket and see if he starts next season in good form and carries on from last year, but you made a good point that by playing both of them in this game that they could well be directly competing for a spot in the test side next year considering they don't like Read, Nixon can't and shouldn't play test cricket, Jones is a waste of space and Foster is the forgotten man.

Just saying that if that's the case Davies would have to be the front runner at the moment due to consistently being in the runs, and by all accounts being a fairly decent keeper. Still I suppose a lot will depend on whether Fletcher is still in charge after the World Cup?

 

[Sureshot]

If they don't want to risk Prior or Davies at an early stage in their career why not opt for someone like Sutton or Batty? I think the latter would do quite well.

 

[puddleduck]

I think Prior can be risked he's had more than one full season of county cricket unlike Davies. Priors also played some Odis and taken part in a Championship winning side so I don't think he's lacking in experience in the same way Davies is.

 

[Leicester Fox]

looks like our batsmen didn't really perform today!

 

[evertonfan]

Nice to see Loudon showing he can wield a bat as he's never had that chance properly with England. Hopefully Smith can chip in with a few runs tomorrow as well.

 

[Leicester Fox]

we should build a nice lead tommorrow and bowl them out cheaply.

 

[Sureshot]

Well done to Loudon, we (as a team) put on 139 for the last 5 wickets. Yet to get one of their 2nd innings wickets though.

 

[Kev]

Yep, nice to see Loudon and Carbs in the runs.