Bangladesh v England: 1st ODI, Mirpur, Feb 28

Does the fun ever end? Kieswetter and Shazad to make their ODIs probably - England to win by a country mile - almost certainly.

hope you were touching wood(y) . . .

I like to live dangerously

Is Flintoff playing?

furriner wrote:Is Flintoff playing?

Nope - won't be playing much before June.

Ok, then Bangladesh might give your lot a run for their money. Especially with - it seems, haven't really been following - some of your key players missing.

I'd not be sure about that country mile.

Strauss and Anderson missing, but the others are all present and accounted for.

Basil wrote:

furriner wrote:Is Flintoff playing?

Nope - won't be playing much before June.

What year?

Will Flintoff be fit for the Bangladesh Test series in England?

Kieswetter +?
Cook *
Pietersen
Collingwood
Morgan
Trott ? Prior +?
Wright
Swann
Shahzad/Bresnan
Broad
Sidebottom

Something like that. England's ODI side is always a f*ck up, but at least Pietersen, Collingwood, Morgan, 3, 4, 5 looks like it could be a long-term winner.

tac wrote:hope you were touching wood(y) . . .

I know he's desperate, but I don't think he'd stoop so low.

Tamim playing a blinder.

82/3 in the 13th over -Tamin blazing away

HS v. England, 94 by Mohammed Ashraful, Trent Bridge, June 2005.

Bangladesh 209/7 (40.1 ov)

Bangles in putting up a good total shock.

Should still be chaseable, but it would be terrible if Cook's first match ended in our first defeat to them.

Well, when I say the Bangles obviously I actually mean Tamim Iqbal. He might even be good enough to get in the Kiwi team.

Typical pathetic effort by the Bangers, only 214 and it looks like they will struggle to bat out their overs. England/SA should do it in a canter.

KP gone for 1

Red wrote:England/SA should do it in a canter.

Hmm, 100-3 and looks like we have a match after all.

BTW, spectacular tits this time Red.

Fark, been busy so didn't even realise this had started yet.

How did Cookie look? He's a much better one day player for Essex recently than he'd ever been before.

Looked better and more solid than that SA prick at the other end who should have been out twice in his first six balls. Not that he looked any more impressive thereafter. Worse than that is he's bona fide Saffer rather than just semi-English mercenary. F*ck him off, Saffer qunt. Pietersen looked f*cking dreadful as well - drop him or bat him where he belongs - 4 or 5.

Chivalry Augustus wrote:Looked better and more solid than that SA prick at the other end who should have been out twice in his first six balls. Not that he looked any more impressive thereafter. Worse than that is he's bona fide Saffer rather than just semi-English mercenary. F*ck him off, Saffer qunt. Pietersen looked f*cking dreadful as well - drop him or bat him where he belongs - 4 or 5.

You want to drop one Saffer qunt but keep the other one?

No, I want them both gone along with Prior.

Chivalry Augustus wrote:No, I want them both gone along with Prior.

How old was prior when he moved to the UK - 13? You'd hold that against him FFS?