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July 5, 2018 Australia / Bangladesh / England / West Indies

Imagine being bowled out in less than 18.4 overs in your first innings

2 minute read Bangladesh were bowled out in 18.4 overs yesterday. That’s pretty bad, but apparently it wasn’t actually the shortest first innings in Test history. Imagine how bad at cricket you’d have to be to be bowled out inside 18.4 overs. Imagine how embarrassing that must have been. Hopefully, whoever it was,

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June 15, 2017 Bangladesh / India

India v Bangladesh goes pretty much exactly how everyone expected

< 1 minute read Who would have thought this match would turn out exactly as everyone expected it to? What were the odds on that? Extremely slim, you’d have thought, what with the extraordinary wealth of alternative outcomes. Tamim Iqbal played a good innings and there was reasonable support from one of Bangladesh’s middle-order

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June 6, 2017 Australia / Bangladesh

British Weather through to semi-finals of Champions Trophy

< 1 minute read After a dominant performance against Australia/New Zealand and a narrow victory over Australia/Bangladesh, the British Weather has booked itself a place in the semi-finals of the Champions Trophy. After displaying dreadful, relentlessly sunny form throughout May, UK meteorologists were left fearing that their side would be knocked out during the

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June 1, 2017 Bangladesh / England

England go with a bit of right-arm fast-medium

2 minute read ‘Will four right-arm fast-medium bowlers be sufficient?’ England apparently asked themselves before the opening match of the ICC Champions Trophy. ‘No, better make it five,” they concluded, for reasons that were clear to no-one. It was very odd. One of the few things we said about England’s likely strategy for

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March 20, 2017 Australia / Bangladesh / India / Sri Lanka

Steve Smith’s brain fades still further, Bangladesh do the reverse

< 1 minute read Bangladesh 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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March 17, 2017 Bangladesh / County cricket / Sri Lanka

The South hit the North and the great flattener

< 1 minute read One 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

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February 12, 2017 Bangladesh / India

Bangladesh three long sessions away from Test series victory over India

< 1 minute read Relatively 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.

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January 14, 2017 Bangladesh

Shakib al Hasan’s Test double hundred and its perfect ending

< 1 minute read Sometimes 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

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November 9, 2016 Bangladesh / England

At least Moeen Ali made 99 not out

< 1 minute read Imagine 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

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October 30, 2016 Bangladesh / England

Mehedi Hasan extracts turn and respect against England’s will

2 minute read We 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.

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