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Sven Roeder 2:46 Thu Oct 27
2nd Test : Bangladesh v England at Dhakar

5am start on Friday

England 1 Alastair Cook (capt), 2 Ben Duckett, 3 Joe Root, 4 Gary Ballance, 5 Ben Stokes, 6 Jonny Bairstow (wk), 7 Moeen Ali, 8 Zafar Ansari, 9 Chris Woakes, 10 Adil Rashid, 11 Steven Finn

Broad and Batty left out for Finn & Ansari
Anderson (injured) and Hales (persona non grata) overlooked for the India Test tour which follows immediately. Same 16 players carry on

Alex Bunbury 4:05 Sun Oct 30
Re: 2nd Test : Bangladesh v England at Dhakar

Losing a test match away to Bangladesh is not a sackable offence, particularly when it was only last winter England won in South Africa. Doubt we will seen Finn and Ballance play in India except due to injuries.

Far Cough 2:56 Sun Oct 30
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Yes indeed

Sven Roeder 2:48 Sun Oct 30
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Boycott took over for two Tests while Brearley was injured and then went back into the ranks when Brearley was fit.

Of course when Mike Denness was made captain ahead of him he refused to play.
Coincidentally this was when England were destroyed by Lillee & Thomson in 1974/5 & then faced the ferocious Windies during the HOT summer of 1976. Possibly the two most intimidating series in the history of the game.

Far Cough 2:40 Sun Oct 30
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Didn't Boycott step down as captain but stay in the team?

Sven Roeder 2:38 Sun Oct 30
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So you want him to step down and remain in the team?
How do you imagine that will help?

Cook strikes me as a bit of a SULKER so I imagine he will retire as Captain.
Probably with Anderson after the 2017/18 Ashes if I had to guess when.

AKA ERNIE 2:34 Sun Oct 30
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Sven 1 47 you do like putting words in my mouth dont you

At nk point have i said cook should be dropped

Sven Roeder 2:30 Sun Oct 30
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Have said before that Australia , S Africa and England (apart from playing at Durham in May) are the only nations that attempt to prepare pitches that give all the skills of the game a fair chance rather than for their own personal advantage.
Bangladesh have more confidence in their players so instead of preparing damage limitation roads are now trying to follow the example of the pitches Sri Lanka prepared for Australia and those India have used to win 13 of their last 14 home tests and draw the other.

VirginiaHam 2:26 Sun Oct 30
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This doesn't look good for the next 5 tests.

Iron2010 2:19 Sun Oct 30
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I think most of the major nations outside of Asia would have been in major trouble here.

Fair play to Bangladesh. They were brave enough to prepare pitches that suited them and were difficult for us.

It is probably the best thing that could of happened looking forward to India. A few of those left handers need to go and the batsmen have to take the fight to the bowlers.

Coffee 1:58 Sun Oct 30
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AKA ERNIE 1:38 Sun Oct 30

A West Ham kind of defeat?

Sven Roeder 1:47 Sun Oct 30
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So in about 10 days time Captain Root tosses the coin & Hameed and Duckett walk out to face Ashwin on a sand pit?
Good luck with that

Sniper 1:38 Sun Oct 30
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In fairness to ansari, he had what 3 dropped catches this morning? Abysmal though 8 players were with bat, that's unacceptable and easily gave them an extra 50 runs

Cook did use some proper bizarre tactics though - starting with Finn and gifting them a great start, not using stokes enough poor reviews.

On spinners purges you can't mitigate for a lot of what happens with the call and often it's as much luck as anything as to whether a wicket falls off an unplayable delivery. But we really don't seem to be able to cope with it at all. The first test could easily have gone the other way and we couldn't have had too many complaints.

The thing is we don't have a very good spinner of our own either. Moeen has some ability but is too expensive - we don't have anyone who can do what Swann used to and either bowl to take wickets or bowl to frustrate and keep the score down so the other bowler could bowl he wicket taking balls when the batsmen got frustrated. In a weird role reversal, stokes ended up being the man to do that job.

Regardless though we are an exciting team to watch in a sort of keegan at Newcastle way - you never know when we will capitulate and yet we're also weirdly equally capable of mammoth 7th wicket stands or taking 4 or 5 wickets for very few runs so our tests are at least never dull!

We're fucked in India though

AKA ERNIE 1:38 Sun Oct 30
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Sven dont try and be cle er mate yes of course i know .

As the captain after this pathetic disgraceful defeat for me he has to go.
Hes been an outstanding captain but this defeat is disgraceful

Sven Roeder 1:34 Sun Oct 30
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You do know the captain isn't a selector right?

Sven Roeder 1:32 Sun Oct 30
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So you blame the Captain?
And want to sack him as he becomes England's most capped player and highest ever Test run scorer?
After ONE bad result

AKA ERNIE 1:29 Sun Oct 30
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Sven when its to shit like that yes

Where have i said to sack the coach

Sven Roeder 1:22 Sun Oct 30
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So one bad result means the sack?
Blimey
England have two set batsmen in their top 5 at the moment in Cook & Root & are off to India.
Definitely time to dump one and change the coach

joe royal 1:19 Sun Oct 30
100 not out.

stoneman 1:17 Sun Oct 30
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Dreadful batting.

Ballance and Finn can fuck off.

Bairstow and Root need to wake up.

Ansari isn't good enough and Batty is too old.

AKA ERNIE 12:59 Sun Oct 30
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None of them lost to Bangladesh either.

Sven Roeder 12:49 Sun Oct 30
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Step down?
He has the Ashes and has won on the last away series in India and S Africa.
Has any England captain had that record in living memory?

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