2nd Test Match - Bangladesh v England

[jakarta]

215-9! Must be in contention for one of the worst ever Test collapses?

 

[pasty]

Why-oh-why did I cancel Sky Sports

 

[ManOfSussex]

This is sensational!

 

[Machiavelli]

This series is a quite amazing confirmation of the subtle joys of Test cricket. All credit to Bangladesh too, because on home soil at least, they're putting up a challenge.

I've got a nine-year-old, and he likes to ask 'who's winning?' whenever we have the Test on, or it comes up on the news. I like to try to tell him that that's a very difficult question to answer at a particular moment, especially before both teams have batted. At a push, however, we might say that Bangladesh were winning, and now England are. That's an incredible turnaround in the space of an hour or two, when a Test match is, or can be, spread over 30 hours. It is also an illustration of the drama and flows of Test cricket.

 

[Machiavelli]

215-9! Must be in contention for one of the worst ever Test collapses?

Have you been watching England over the past decade or two?

 

[Titanic]

Bangladesh 220 all out (63.5 overs)

from 171-1 after 41 overs.... Bangladesh lost their last nine wickets for 49 in 22.5 overs

Moeen Ali 19.5-5-57-5

Woakes 3-30, Stokes 2-13

 

[CHAPPERS]

Great catch from Root there.

 

[Iovan The Sweeper]

5 for Mo - nice.

That was indeed a Sussex-esque collapse.

The last 9 wickets went for 49.

 

[crabface]

Unbelievable stuff. Bangladesh must be kicking themselves, but a cracking come back from England.

Need to give credit to Moeen, good figures after a tough first session.

 

[Iovan The Sweeper]

My heart yearns for Bapu Nadkarni......India v England....Madras Test....1963-4......32 overs....27 maidens.....5 runs....0 wickets.........131 successive dot balls........now that is proper cricket.

You'll like Stokes' figures then. Not quite in that league, and he had the temerity to take two wickets, but still:

O = 11
M = 5
R = 13
W = 2

Econ = 1.18

 

[jakarta]

Have you been watching England over the past decade or two?

Since the 1970's mate. I think we were, on the whole, fairly crap between Mike Brearley to Michael Vaughan so many years of suffering!

 

[Titanic]

Big moment for Ben Duckett.... opening against the spinners.

 

[Iovan The Sweeper]

Loads of reverse swing for Stokes and Bangladesh have only got one seamer.

This is all teed up nicely...for a horrendous England collapse.

 

[Titanic]

Oops

10-1 (1.5 overs)

Duckett gloves one down the leg side to the keeper for 7

 

[Hiney]

Big moment for Ben Duckett.... opening against the spinners.

Gone

 

[Iovan The Sweeper]

Gone

It's time for some Boycott steel in the last hour.

"Get your head down. Protect your average. Don't try and score runs. Ever"

 

[Titanic]

Cook gone LBW on review

24-2

 

[CHAPPERS]

Too many lefties!

 

[Papa Lazarou]

Glad we've got Gary Ballance to rescue us.

 

[Titanic]

Too many lefties!

Why does that matter when they have spinners turning it both ways?