Bangladesh vs England

Meanwhile Aftab Ahmed is seemingly attempting the most protracted duck in cricket history. He's occupied the crease for almost half an hour, facing 19 balls and showing an almost cavalier disregard for the scoreboard.

Chris Tavare would have been proud.
 
And what a fecking ill-fated single that was, Javed Omar's gone now and with him any chance of a remotely respectable score from Bangladesh.

Bloody hell, we support them through thin and thin with absolutely no return.
 
Do you agree that Bangladesh have no place in test cricket MR? They're woeful. They've been involved 5 years now and there's been little or no progress. At least when Sri Lanka came into test cricket, they progressed pretty rapidly.
 
Not neccessarily, had this arguement with someone on YAWN.

The individual players in this side are better than what's come before and they're much, much younger. Half the team is under the age of 22. The youth team won the Plate competition against Australia. The infrastructure has been refined, the first class competition has been improved and we're clearly producing good young players now.

Although we are crap at the moment, the monumental support the game has in the country and the young talent we have at our disposal may be worth persisting with, if at the expense of test cricket for a few years, given that eventually it may glean a cricketing powerhouse.
 
104 all out. The game will be finished by tomorrow night at this rate.

This series will be almost a complete waste of time. Bangladesh should not be a test playing nation. Let them keep internation one day status but this is a joke
 
Looking Busy said:
104 all out. The game will be finished by tomorrow night at this rate.

This series will be almost a complete waste of time. Bangladesh should not be a test playing nation. Let them keep internation one day status but this is a joke
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What did I say when I argued that this series wasn't good preparation for the Ashes?
 
Melbourne Red said:
Not neccessarily, had this arguement with someone on YAWN.

The individual players in this side are better than what's come before and they're much, much younger. Half the team is under the age of 22. The youth team won the Plate competition against Australia. The infrastructure has been refined, the first class competition has been improved and we're clearly producing good young players now.

Although we are crap at the moment, the monumental support the game has in the country and the young talent we have at our disposal may be worth persisting with, if at the expense of test cricket for a few years, given that eventually it may glean a cricketing powerhouse.
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Let's hope MR. The more decent test teams out there, the more interesting it becomes.
 
Looking Busy said:
104 all out. The game will be finished by tomorrow night at this rate.

This series will be almost a complete waste of time. Bangladesh should not be a test playing nation. Let them keep internation one day status but this is a joke
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We're a much better team than this mate. Can't expect a team barely out of it's nappies to come in off two tour games (ridiculous scheduling) as preparation in conditions they've never encountered against a team stacked with quality and experience and not get battered.

If this had been a home series we'd have put up some sort of show. I think we can be a reasonably competitive test nation for the time being, but it's hard when most of the lads have never seen a proper greentop.
 
Aftab Ahmed is back at the crease. He at least offers us some hope of batting out the next 3 days.
 
You're gonna bat again
Oh you're gonna bat again
You're gonna bat again
And you're gonna believe us

;)
 
Bangladesh are making a good fist of their secong innings. Afew more minutes and they'll force evryone to come back tomorrow.
 
Despite the umpires' best efforts to wrap it up early. We had Javed Omar cut down cruelly after being given out to a Geraint Jones catch that dropped short for 71.

And Habibul Bashar given LBW to a ball that caught the inside edge for 63.

And while my auntie would surely be my uncle if she had, in fact, been born with bollocks, those two could also have made centuries.
 
Kudos to the 19 year old lad from Chittagong Aftab Ahmed, compiling his first half century in test cricket against the likes of Harmison, Hoggard and Flintoff. Excellent example of the young talent being produced in Bangladesh.
 
They did well in the second innings MR. Shame they didn't start that way on day one of the first test really. But it bodes well for their future.
 
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