England Tour Of Bangladesh 2010

[King Pietersen]

He's saying that Trott's slow scoring was down to the match situation and he just played that situation, scoring at a rate that set up and England victory.

Be stupid to drop a bloke averaging 49 in ODi's and well over 40 in List A cricket in favour of inferior players like Cook and Prior. Looking like it's going to happen though.

 

[MUFC1987]

I'm not so sure, I think Trott's played a lot of cricket over the last 6 months, so I wouldn't be surprised if he either played in these ODIs having rested for the Warmups, or sat these out but was back in the team for the next home series. Kieswetter deserves a go, so obviously he'll open with Cook, which means Trott has to bat at either 3 or 4. So then it's a straight choice between him and Prior for me, which depends a lot on whether Flower wants Kieswetter to keep or not. The problem for Trott is that Pietersen will never be dropped, and Collingwood and Morgan have done well batting in those positions. Personally, I'd be happy to see him batting at 3 or 4, without Prior in the team, but who knows which way we'll go.

Also to say, Cook will never play ahead of Trott when he's not Captain, but he'll just be replaced by Strauss anyway, so there's no point in arguing who's better out of Cook and Trott.

 

[1iram1]

Yes Ash gets dropped!!!

 

[McLOVIN]

ya, finally. he needs a break any ways.

 

[McLOVIN]

Andrew Fernando: It's all Bangladesh's fault | Page 2 | Cricinfo.com
:laugh

i dont get the JeLo part =S

 

[khalek]

Ashraful is struggling to make runs in domestic as well :laugh

 

[Iridium]

Finally, Ashraful gets the boot. He was a real bung leg in the Bangladeshi team. They may lose experience but that allows them to blood new players at international level.

 

[pcfan123]

England will be bowling first, will have to wait a few hours to see Kieswetter's debut.

 

[pcfan123]

Sidebottom has got his arsed spanked so far

52/0

 

[jkartik]

Girly Broad isnt bowling any better.

WHAT A SIX !!

and i thought only the indian bowlers suck !

 

[Params7]

lol BL dishing it out. I don't remember when I saw this happen the last time.

 

[pcfan123]

8.6


Broad to Tamim Iqbal, SIX, fantastic shot! This is sterling stuff from Iqbal. Judging the length and using the round-the-wicket angle to launch Broad over midwicket for an monstrous six!

8.6


Broad to Tamim Iqbal, 1 wide, England under the cosh here, Broad switching to round the wicket but shoving it too far down leg

8.5


Broad to Tamim Iqbal, FOUR, brilliant stuff this from Iqbal, another short ball from Broad, quite why I don't know, and Iqbal rolled his wrists over his pull shot, guiding it past the short fine leg for another boundary

8.4


Broad to Tamim Iqbal, FOUR, well, Iqbal meeting fire with fire, short ball and Iqbal leant back and heaved it over midwicket. Not perfectly timed but might effective

8.3


Broad to Imrul Kayes, 1 run, short again, and straight, but Kayes manages to squeeze it down to third man

8.2


Broad to Imrul Kayes, no run, much shorter, Broad trying to unearth some aggression, the batsman calmly sways inside the line

8.1


Broad to Imrul Kayes, no run, neatly defended from a straight ball

and on that note I am off to bed

 

[Params7]

BD is going to screw it up somehow, I just know it.

 

[age of the fall]

BD is going to screw it up somehow, I just know it.

Two quick wickets, you might be right

 

[Owzat]

Terrible start, Bangladesh 47/0 off 8.1 overs. Sidebottom hasn't been at his best in recent matches that he's played, I don't rate Bresnan at all, and our back-up bowler is up of Wright and Collingwood.

I think we may still win this, but it will take a better batting display than our bowling efforts. Not so much underestimating the opposition as perhaps overestimating our own bowling ability and not playing a proper all-rounder. We do bat down to 10, but we may leave ourselves too big a target to chase at this rate. Bring on Colly, I bet he'll take a wicket or two and we need wickets.

As I type Bresnan takes a wicket. Still don't rate him, not as an opening ODI bowler and not at all. I'm never one to change my view, even if it may have something conflicting happen before, during or after

ODIs (matches in brackets)

Collingwood (173) : 4478 runs @ 36.11 & 101 wkts @ 37.86
Wright (28) : 428 runs @ 22.53 & 10 wkts @ 46.80
Bresnan (18) : 253 runs @ 31.63 & 17 wkts @ 42.06
Broad (57) : 338 runs @ 14.70 & 94 wkts @ 25.97
Swann (29) : 227 runs @ 13.35 & 31 wkts @ 29.45
Sidebottom (24) : 133 runs @ 13.30 & 28 wkts @ 35.46

Bresnan's batting average is inflated by SIX not outs in 14 knocks and one knock of 80 makes up 1/3 of his runs. His wickets have been expensive, knocking over some Bangladeshi wickets won't make up for averages of over 40 with the ball against everyone bar West Indies (28.00), Ireland and Scotland.

As bowling attacks go that contains two bowlers of any proven quality. It also contains two bowlers with mid-30s averages and two averaging over 40, the start Bangladesh have made cannot therefore be too surprising. England's list of 'current' ODI internationals makes grim reading from a bowling average point of view, Wright, Tremlett, Rashid, Onions, Mascarenhas, Bresnan and Batty all with averages over 40 - well over in one or two cases.

There is one thing, at least it might be an interesting/close match

Owzat added 1 Minutes and 23 Seconds later...

EDIT : bye bye Siddique, we're not bowling well but are clawing it back through wickets. What odds a Bangladesh collapse? Say 63/0 to 126 all out................?