< 1 minute readBangladesh have won nine Tests and we make this their second win. The convention is to remove matches in which Bangladesh feature from all Test statistics. This seems unduly harsh at the best of times, but it seems even more so when it’s them who you’re measuring. Nevertheless, in the
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The South hit the North and the great flattener
< 1 minute readOne of the few things that people agree upon about the lyrics of The Fall’s Hit the North is that one of the first lines is “my cat says eeeeee-ack”. So what can we agree upon about the South’s hitting of the North’s bowlers today? That it was more successful
Continue readingBangladesh three long sessions away from Test series victory over India
< 1 minute readRelatively speaking. Escape with a draw and that’s basically a win for the tourists, isn’t it? And being as it’s a one Test series, that would also mean a Bangladesh series victory. Again, relatively speaking. Three sessions seems an awful long time when you’ve only got seven wickets left though.
Continue readingShakib al Hasan’s Test double hundred and its perfect ending
< 1 minute readSometimes we forget that you haven’t all been reading this website since day dot. It’s been over a decade since we tipped Shakib al Hasan for greatness so chances are a great many of you won’t know what a big deal it is that he made a Test double hundred
Continue readingAt least Moeen Ali made 99 not out
< 1 minute readImagine that today is exactly like today only Moeen Ali made a duck. There, you see – things could be slightly worse. This isn’t so much a ‘glass half full’ attitude as a ‘there’s still something in there, I’m sure – maybe if I tip the glass the right way
Continue readingMehedi Hasan extracts turn and respect against England’s will
2 minute readWe all can’t spake. Uncertainty is the lifeblood of sport and so this series has made for compulsive viewing. As the Test Match Special Twitter account put it yesterday. Things in Dhaka have continued where they left off in Chittagong! Again, the momentum has reversed in a matter of minutes.
Continue readingEngland derailed by their own sickening wrong-handedness
< 1 minute readWith hindsight, maybe England should have picked more right-handers. None of their left-handed batsmen passed 20, while all of their right-handers did, bar Steven Finn. Quite why people think it’s acceptable to do things left-handed is beyond us. Bangladesh are working their way into a strong position. This is no
Continue readingWhy Gary Ballance’s 2016 return to the England side was too easy for him
3 minute readEngland dropped Gary Ballance before the third Ashes Test of 2015 after a run of form that wasn’t actually all that dreadful with the benefit of hindsight. He had passed 30 once in his last 10 innings and had been bowled five times. People said he struggled against good quick
Continue readingZafar Ansari is almost certainly batting too high
< 1 minute readEarlier today, we took issue with England’s willingness to make bold prophecies. However, we rather shot our match-previewing bolt yesterday, so we’re now going to have to commit much the same crime simply so that we have something to say. We are guessing/predicting that Zafar Ansari will be (a) playing
Continue readingGareth Batty – the winter bike
2 minute readThere seems to be a tendency in some quarters to perceive England’s Test tours of Bangladesh and India as being one long competitive outing. They are not. They are separate. For all the talk of ‘taking a look’ at players ahead of England’s arrival in India, there is a Test
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