Ashraful_Rox
Test Debutant
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Shakib must be exhausted after the long spell, we'll set up a target of 150 at most or less and England will win this match by 10 wickets.
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Random Aussie said:Have the Saffers won this one yet?
Whippy said:Jury is out on Shakib's captaincy. He ends the 3rd innings himself by holding the chance of an instant personal milestone above slowly squeezing out another crucial 30 runs. In England's 1st innings, he wastes the new ball on the dreadful Razaak, and when Razzak is rubbish he keeps him on. He does this in the 4th innings too.
Also in the 4th innings, he completely forgets that the decent little seamer Rubel exists until the 23rd over, the bowler that has given us the most problems. He gets the no.1 batsman Pietersen on strike early on - with no close fielder. His fields are so uninventive that it prompts Cork to say on TMS that 'he must be setting the field for a run-out'. He bowls himself because he doesn't know what else to do. He has now bowled over 70 overs in the match and batted 4-5 hours - nobody has enough energy to take wickets after that. How do you bowl a side out cheaply with all these tactics? Worst of all, I imagine Shakib gets called a hero for his marathon spells, when the likes of Flintoff used to get slated for bowling 50 overs and batting for 2 hours when he was captain.
So Trott suffers a dodgy run out I see. To go along with him being given out caught off the helmet in the first test, and Broad's denied LBW yesterday. The difference is that England's next batsman digs in, or the bowler's next ball is a wicket-taker, as opposed to the Bangladeshi reaction of whining and losing. Not to mention we have dropped 7-10 catches in this test yet we're still strolling to victory.
Clearly, England can count their lucky stars that they easily won this tour 5-0.
Whippy said:So Trott suffers a dodgy run out I see. To go along with him being given out caught off the helmet in the first test, and Broad's denied LBW yesterday.
Robert said:Impossible! The white umpires are biased against Bangladesh!
Ashraful_Rox said:I don't think anyone of us made a racist remark here! We never said the white umpires were against us, don't know where you got that from, very odd and out of context comment.
Bangla Tiger said:given the atrocious officiating of the match, i will be pleased with a draw. even a draw will punish those critics of bangladesh who refuse to accept the unequal playing fields that the ICC have turned a blind eye to. the ICC is destroying test cricket by allowing the big 4 boards to hold the game hostage, and victimizing ALL non-white teams via poor umpiring decisions.
Robert said:From here:
Whippy said:great little fifty, SR 90. turned a potentially tight chase into a cakewalk.
Ashraful_Rox said:Abdur Razzak, Imrul Kayes needs to be dropped and we need a better bowling coach, against these sort of bowlers even Chris Martin may score a ton.
Robert said:Don't be downhearted, I've seen England blast their way to a 200-2 win against an SA with Donald and Pollock bowling.
This is the sort of run-chase that English county batsmen do in their sleep.
Not against us, thoughRobert said:This is the sort of run-chase that English county batsmen do in their sleep.
ShehryarK said:
LOL! Yeh, I was jesting with you.Robert said:Oh come on, seven an over needed against Imran and Wasim bowling unchanged?![]()
Actually Imran was surprised that England screwed that up! The selectors hamstrung them by picking Athey, and Gooch was on self-imposed exile at the time.
Whippy said:My team for the first test in May
Strauss
Cook
KP
Trott
Colly
Bell
Prior
Bresnan
Broad
Swann
Anderson
bullseye7 said:England wins courtsey some sub standard umpiring.
Robert said:It's funny how, when England was losing match after match against Australia, most of the umpiring decisions seemed to go in the Aussies' favour....
Then in 2005 when England had the good bowling attack, the marginal decisions were going to England....
bullseye7 said:.Again it is not England's fault if umpire favors them. It is the men in white who is ruining the game in an unethical fashion.