Can Bangladesh stretch England at home?

[Clarke]

Don't worry Bangla fans' date=' many posters here will be eating their words. [b']Bangladesh gave a good fight to India and have been playing some good cricket for last couple of months....anything is possible. :winky:

err .. remember Australia, where u guys claimed to be giving a good fight ? What happened ? I'll tell u what happened : baap numbari (India's rank#1) to beta das numbari (Pakistan's 10-0)

[DaFan]

^^ Yawn, India wont be #1 forever, then What? Gonna be laughing my @ss off. ________ GM Family 0 engine history

[Chandan]

The upcoming series in Bangladesh between the two sides might present more than one occasion where England might be stretched. Here me out : 1. England's bowling attack's experience in the subcontinent is minimal. Conditions in Bangladesh don't typically favor the traditional swing bowling which is England's strength. Swann will be a key player, but Bangladesh batsmen are not too bad against spin. Moreover, even Swann has hardly bowled in the subcontinent where even some very good spinners find time to get the right bowling areas. 2. Tamim Iqbal might be a bit of a cowlasher along with a fair few of them in the line up, but if he or some other top order batsman gets into the kind of patch where the ball starts coming off the bat for a couple of sessions, a solid lower middle order in Shakib, Rahim, and Mahmudullah might propel them to a good score. They managed to get 400+ in alien conditions in New Zealand and a similar score at home could prove very useful. 3. England have improved against spin, but are still vulnerable. In the absence of Strauss they'll miss out one of their best batsman and Pietersen has been struggling. Trott is very new and Bell is well Bell. A turning track which can bring in the Bangladesh spinners into the game early enough can put serious pressure on England's batting line up. A new captain in Cook, the drudgery and complacency of playing in Bangladesh, and some recent performances from Bangladesh which have been above their abysmal par and who knows!

Don't think they are causing even slightest of trouble to the Englishmen. Why on earth did they choose to field after winning the toss? If Banglas had not lost by an inning, they could easily have put some pressure on the young English batsmen+out of form Pietersen in the 4th inning through spin when track would have had plenty of turn. But I think they didn't have the confidence to survive even one hour of swing from English bowlers and hence they chose to bowl instead which can be the sure shot recipe for defeat.

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[The Outsider]

Just checked the scoreline after the first days' play - these guys elected to field on a ground where the average last innings score is 104

[Watson87]

Cook is eyeing Lara's record

[Chandan]

Just checked the scoreline after the first days' play - these guys elected to field on a ground where the average last innings score is 104

Had they batted for even Day 1, they could have caused some damage to English batting line up, by the end of second day and the third day. But as it stands now, they have to chase more than 510 runs in the 4th inning in little more than last 5 and 1/2 sessions. It seems that they didn't even play to their potential, forget about playing a little above it to stetch this test team of England!

[Chandan]

Wow! Are Bangladesh still stretching England? They didn't give them a single wicket in the first session of the 5th day!! I'm impressed! Has anyone been watching? What was the story today? Batsmen batting well above themselves or bowlers bowling rubbish?

[Watson87]

Wow! Are Bangladesh still stretching England? They didn't give them a single wicket in the first session of the 5th day!! I'm impressed! Has anyone been watching? What was the story today? Batsmen batting well above themselves or bowlers bowling rubbish?

2 sessions now :hatsoff:

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[Chandan]

Bangladesh scores 419 in the first inning in second day and quite impressively they've batted for over 117 overs. Now England has to do all the running and even if the track was not assisting spinners till now, it surely will by the final session today, and Banglas have 4 spinners in their rank. Will they stretch England this time?

[gsivak]

Looks like the tigers have played a good first inning. The problem with Bangladesh, as I see is it, is not talent but temperament-they work on that fast. You can't have growing pains forever, you are expected to grow up some day and for the sake of their passionate fans, I hope that day comes soon.

[Watson87]

Bangladesh scores 419 in the first inning in second day and quite impressively they've batted for over 117 overs. Now England has to do all the running and even if the track was not assisting spinners till now, it surely will by the final session today, and Banglas have 4 spinners in their rank. Will they stretch England this time?

Sounds wrong :--D

[Chandan]

Sakib bowls 66 overs in this inning for 4 wickets. :wacko2: Bangladesh batted well and bowled well in patches, but even then England succeeded in securing a lead of 77 runs in this inning. But their lack of intent has been the most annoying thing in this test. What is the record for bowling maximum number of overs in an inning by a bowler?

[satyam1729]

Here is the list. http://stats.cricinfo.com/ci/engine/stats/index.html?class=1;filter=advanced;orderby=overs;template=results;type=bowling;view=innings

[vvvslaxman]

Sakib bowls 66 overs in this inning for 4 wickets. :wacko2: Bangladesh batted well and bowled well in patches, but even then England succeeded in securing a lead of 77 runs in this inning. But their lack of intent has been the most annoying thing in this test. What is the record for bowling maximum number of overs in an inning by a bowler?

From top of my memory I remember one guy named Raguram bhat bowling 94 overs in an innings in one of the famous Ranji Trophy match in history http://cricketarchive.com/Archive/Scorecards/42/42134.html

[Kriterion]

it appears as though england have been stretched far beyond their expectations for a 2-0 or 1-0 win...and that everone's been stretched beyond their expectations for the past several months. good stuff for the future given the core remains intact.

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Cook steers England to series win England earn a 2-0 series win over Bangladesh through the batting of Alastair Cook, with a 12th Test century, and Kevin Pietersen. More... Alastair Cook century steers England to Test series win Second Test, Mirpur, day five: England 496 & 209-1 beat Bangladesh 419 & 285 by nine wickets Cook played at a perfect tempo on Wednesday By Oliver Brett England finally cruised to a 2-0 series win over Bangladesh through the batting of Alastair Cook, who hit a 12th Test century, and Kevin Pietersen. Cook made 109 and Pietersen 74 in an unbroken stand of 167 as England won by nine wickets, reaching their target of 209 with exactly 10 overs remaining. But England had not had their own way on the final morning of the match. Shakib Al Hasan was last out for 96 soon after lunch, Bangladesh doing well to convert an overnight 172-6 into 285. The Worcestershire-bound Shakib certainly showcased his all-round talents in this match by adding the runs scored on his 23rd birthday to his score of 49 in the first innings and a marathon spell of 66 overs in England's first innings, yielding 4-144. But after all that the Bangladesh captain looked a little weary as England set about their chase, which with a required rate of 3.87 on a Mirpur pitch that was playing miles better than a standard fifth day pitch had a right to, did not prove particularly taxing. Thats Numberwang The home side had not put quite enough runs on the board, and by only batting for 102 overs in their second innings they had left enough time in the game for England to be confident about taking the win. There was one setback in the tourists' chase with the score on 42 when Jonathan Trott, scoring far more freely than he had in his day two rearguard, was given run out by third umpire Nadir Shah. The kindest thing one could say was that the official's decision defied obvious logic, since television viewers could not see a frame in which Trott's bat was short of the line with wicketkeeper Mushfiqur Rahim having dislodged the bails. But Cook was batting at a nice tempo, and Pietersen pulled, swept and drove the spinners well to put England in good shape at 95-1 from the 25 overs that took England to the tea interval. A terrific pull through midwicket from Cook soon after tea off Rubel Hossain took him to his half-century and England were just about halfway there. Pietersen was moving through the gears really well too, soon reaching his own half-century and, with the win almost in the bag, switch-hitting Mahmudullah for four. Pietersen has shaken off the poor form he endured coming into the series That shot in particular will have pleased fans of IPL franchise Bangalore, who welcome Pietersen into their squad later this week. Cook reached his century with an effortless cover-drive for four off Mahmudullah and supplied the winning hit by dispatching the same bowler to the midwicket fence. When Wednesday's play began, England were made to sweat by Shakib and Shafiul Islam, who quickly stretched an overnight lead of just 95 into something more significant. Shafiul had already belied his billing as a rank tailender in the first innings when hitting his first half-century in first-class cricket, and now he took on Graeme Swann with positive results, combining old-fashioned slogging over cow-corner with some authentic sweeps. Stuart Broad took the new ball for England and was mainly wasteful though Shakib, on 54, almost holed out to Trott at deep square-leg - the fielder dropping a diving one-handed chance. Curiously, Alastair Cook put James Tredwell on at the other end, ahead of either of the other two seamers, but his instincts were justified from the Kent off-spinner's sixth delivery with the new ball. With three fielders positioned in the deep on the leg-side, Shafiul launched another big drive but unerringly picked out Trott, who this time completed the catch. Soon afterwards Prior dropped Shakib off Tredwell, but things were beginning to happen for England and Tredwell, who persuaded Naeem Islam to pop up a catch to Pietersen at deepish mid-on. Shakib, who had cut and pulled the seamers well, was more circumspect now, but Abdur Razzak gave him good company for a while. It was vital for Bangladesh that they kept two wickets in hand at lunch, but Steven Finn, bowling the last over before lunch prevented that from happening. He beat Razzak for pace with a low full-toss that thudded into his pads in front of the stumps. Shakib faced Tredwell in the first full over after lunch. The first and fifth balls were struck to the fence but with one more boundary required for his second Test century he gave it away as he advanced down the wicket to the last ball of the over and was well stumped by Prior. Tredwell, long touted by his county captain Rob Key as one of the finest spinners in county cricket, finished with fine figures of 4-82. The feeling was that Bangladesh had neither scored quite enough in their second innings, nor taken quite enough time out of the game, and England's batsmen confirmed that suspicion in the final two sessions of a series that nevertheless proved more competitive than predicted.

[vvvslaxman]

As a batsman Cook A+ for this series. Possibly his best series?

[Mr. Wicket]

Lazy Cricinfo http://www.cricinfo.com/bdeshveng2010/content/current/story/453379.html Marks out of 10 for the England players. Yet CI leaves out the marks for Rod Tucker and Tony Hill. Stoopid.