Bangladesh V England Test Series 2016

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Gareth uncle back in the bowling attack. Can he take the remaining two and complete a five fer.

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Dropped

[backfootpunch]

Stokes standing way too close

Was never going to catch that

[Aidan11]

Who's going to get up at 5am to watch the end of this tomorrow then?

[Aidan11]

Now they're toying with us.

[dan08]

Hmm, to get up at 5am tomorrow or not..?

[mikesiva]

Sabbir Rahman gets a half-century, and a nation's hopes rest on his shoulders....

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Stumps as England want pacers to bowl but not possible due to bad light.

Most teams would have bowled spinners, but England spinners have not been upto the mark. On Day 4 in second innings there should have been lot more chances generated than the England spinners have managed too. Clearly there is a huge quality gap between the bowling attack of Swann and Monty as compared to the other English spinners bowling in tandem. I am wondering what spin options will they bring on tour to India.

[dan08]

@idlesummers: "Back tomorrow then. 19 teams have needed 33 runs with 2 wickets in hand (and a result): 9 wins for the batting side, 10 for the fielding."

[Dr Cricket]

Nice even broad likes the pitch.

[Making_Splinters]

Stumps as England want pacers to bowl but not possible due to bad light.

Most teams would have bowled spinners, but England spinners have not been upto the mark. On Day 4 in second innings there should have been lot more chances generated than the England spinners have managed too. Clearly there is a huge quality gap between the bowling attack of Swann and Monty as compared to the other English spinners bowling in tandem. I am wondering what spin options will they bring on tour to India.

I think most sides would have taken the light with a set batsmen and so few runs to play with. Aside from India of course who have the best spin attack going.

Given how the spinners have bowled, the India tour is looking decidedly grim.

[Arthur Crabtree]

Looks a pretty exciting day. Given the difficulty batting on the first few days, I'm wondering if the pitch has somehow got easier to bat on? BD have got too many here. New ball nearly due, could be England's ace in the hole, if the old ball isn't reversing. My hunch is with BD.

[Dr Cricket]

Looks a pretty exciting day. Given the difficulty batting on the first few days, I'm wondering if the pitch has somehow got easier to bat on? BD have got too many here. New ball nearly due, could be England's ace in the hole, if the old ball isn't reversing. My hunch is with BD.

well for one the batting not getting easier, just been that england spinners are so awful and concede too many runs.
if bangladesh batting was more assured and they batted better they would be thrashing england here.
England been awful so far, except for a few good performances.

Bangladesh have really batted better and bowled better in this game, they only really losing the game because of the tail and not getting Ali, Bairstow/Stokes out cheaply.

[budgetmeansbudget]

England were 8 down at the end of day three and didn't trouble the scorers much the following morning.

Lets hope the same thing happens again.

[Dr Cricket]

England were 8 down at the end of day three and didn't trouble the scorers much the following morning.

Lets hope the same thing happens again.

wicket have fell in the first over of each day play in the last 3 days.