The Cricket Thread 2016

[UK Redsox]

Aided by a dip in batting (padding up and playing at a wide one) Mo and Stokes have got England back into this

[UK Redsox]

Moeen bags another.

Great second hour of the afternoon session for England

[UK Redsox]

ERB is the best new summariser on TMS for quite a while

[KevinGage]

Can't run Stokes into the ground, but with the break, he should have been OK for another 3 or 4 overs after tea.

He has more than done his part, but when a bowler is in rhythm, let him get on with it. Seven down, and Bangladesh would be doing well to get 250 from there.

But a different bowler and the pressure is off again, and they might push up to circa 300.

...As I say that Woakes picks up his second.

[UK Redsox]

"are you England in disguise"

[UK Redsox]

Second worse collapse in Test history by a team that was at least 171 for 1

[AVH87]

Funny how some people were saying Moeen should be dropped, he gets 5 wickets whilst the other two spinners go round the park and collect 0-80 between them off just 16 overs.

[PaulWinch again]

Well remarkable turn around that when I hadn't checked for a couple of hours. Supports the view that Moeen is our best spinner.

Again two early wickets gone though.

[UK Redsox]

Ballance gone

[paul_e]

I think ballance and cook have just been done by good deliveries, Duckett was pretty unlucky as well.

[paul_e]

I find myself wondering if this pitch is the opposite of the first test.  That one started the day lively and then flattened, this seems to have got harder to play.

[Villan For Life]

I thought our attack looked pretty average during the morning session, that said, Tamim's innings was masterful. He certainly enjoys batting against England.

Stokes bowled well and has that Xfactor that marks him out as a special player. He just makes things happen. Ali bowled with intelligence and deserved his 5-fer, particuafter they went after him in the morning session.

[PGW]

I'm somewhat gutted by my performance today, woke dutifully at 04:55 and watched first session in bed on my tablet watching as Tamin sent us around the park.
At lunch i switched tablet off to give it a bit of boost and switched TMS on from my phone and then somehow fell asleep waking up as England walking out to bat so of 13 wickets to fall today i've seen 4 of them 3 of which
were Englands!!!

Not a happy bunny.

[PGW]

Even earlier start tomorrow due to play being lost today. Play starts at 04:33.

[Villan For Life]

I'm somewhat gutted by my performance today, woke dutifully at 04:55 and watched first session in bed on my tablet watching as Tamin sent us around the park.
At lunch i switched tablet off to give it a bit of boost and switched TMS on from my phone and then somehow fell asleep waking up as England walking out to bat so of 13 wickets to fall today i've seen 4 of them 3 of which
were Englands!!!

Not a happy bunny.

I get a little like that and find that Test Cricket has made me superstitious! Like you PGW I listened to the morning session on TMS. Nothing of any note happened so I watched the afternoon session on TV. As we know England had a mervellous session with the ball so I had to stick with the TV coverage! If I'd have gone back to TMS we'd have struggled even more than we actually did.