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22/5 Bumrah again, 5 wickets

Afghanistan doing pretty well so far in their test in Bangladesh.

Abdul Qadir died. Fantastic leg spinner, sad news. Pakistan have produced some wizards down the years, he was the best of all.

Portsalon wrote: »

Wasn't he the one with a withered arm through childhood polio who could make the ball do amazing things?

I didn't think it was so I looked it up, it was Bhagwat Chandrasekhar of India, that man is still on the go, 74 years young

axe2grind wrote: »

Delighted the weather didn't rob them. They only had 18ov to get 4 wickets after rain prevented play for most of day. Got Shakib first ball of resumption and got last wicket with only about 3 overs left and light starting to fade.

Rashid 11 wickets and a 50 in the match, only 3rd captain to take 10 and score 50.
Really surprised than Alan Border was one of the other 2!

It is their second, they beat Ireland as well. Border took 7 in an innings against West Indies a few years ago, was a handy spinner. Desmond Haynes played brilliantly in that match. I'm sure he got a hundred. Afghans were nearly robbed by the weather, but got Shakhib first ball after the resumption, and won in the nick of time.

I was reading that Vikram Rathour is the new India batting coach, how is that even possible, that chap toured England about 15 years ago and was comfortably the worst test player I have ever seen, he had no shots, and couldn't hit it off the square, he averaged about 5, and was lucky to. What are top class batsmen going to learn from him?

Mysterypunter wrote: »

I was reading that Vikram Rathour is the new India batting coach, how is that even possible, that chap toured England about 15 years ago and was comfortably the worst test player I have ever seen, he had no shots, and couldn't hit it off the square, he averaged about 5, and was lucky to. What are top class batsmen going to learn from him?

6 tests, averaged 13. :eek:

But take a sportsman like Jose Mourinho, won just about everything in football as a manager, no international caps as a player , not even 100 first club team games as a player and he played for teams you won’t have heard of yet incredibly successful.

As a manager a Winner. Not as of late but a winner generally.

Rather could just have the gift of being great at working with players, educating them, developing them..

So many T20s and ODIs on at the moment, but the thing I have noticed is that the bullying Aussies have gone soft. After years of sledging and intimidation, they have players banned for homophobic outbursts, and players talking about mental health issues. Their own culture has changed, but it must be confusing to be an Aussie cricketer. Years of fake toughness and bull**** count against my sympathy levels for them.

English really fûcking up what was a great start to their first innings now...throwing wickets away.... it was looking like 400 would not be an unreasonable probability but now just limping towards 300 with 3 wickets remaining.

Good proper Test Match between these two. Every run earned and every wicket a prize! I reckon England will be 100 or so ahead after the First Innings at the end of Day 3. It will be their match to lose from there.

English bowlers bowling quite accurately and very economically but not really creating any chances yet. Kiwi’s seemingly happy to tip away, defensively.

English bowlers look to be all out of ideas... NZ batsman having an easy time of it...playing very conservatively though, three of the English bowlers with economy rates below 3, broad 1.94 which after that many overs is unheard of in the game... not at all getting close to taking a wicket.

NZ guys putting the pedal to the metal now, raining fours and sixes, swinging at everything, total one day mode...English struggling, pitch is a beaut, a complete batsman’s paradise... Root might as well be a bowling machine for all use and impact he’s having...

You don’t see many number 8 batsmen with 125* to their name.

I think if there is a ready made replacement for Burns somewhere in the county system his place has to be under threat...

12 tests, averaging 29. 5 scores of 50 or above over 24 innings... about a 20% success rate... technically a very good player. When he gets in he often goes BIG even a double hundred to his name in county cricket , he has the shots, the talent is there but he needs to be a bit smarter with shot selection and the management of his innings.

Watching Sibley’s dismissal, wow. A real touch of a number 11 about the execution of the shot, poor..

Root averaging 27 in 2019... that shot that cost him his wicket you would have to say that is quite a flattering average that was the shot of a number 11.

Mysterypunter wrote: »

New Zealand win by an innings & 65. England 197 all out

Aye quite the pasting in the end considering they looked in the better position at the end of Day 2.

NZ 173-3. Latham 101*, rain falling now, looks like the end of day 1

191/5 now NZ, good chance England can bowl them out cheaply if they can keep the focus.

English fielding hasn’t been good, that’s a really crappy attempt by Curran to take the catch, not easy but jeeez if he dives forward with more purpose and enthusiasm that’s very catchable he seemed to fall at the ball.

England 2 down already, 39 runs on the board. Black Caps made 375.