England's Tests in Bangladesh

[Nemo]

Okay, so it's England B against the Banglas, so I'm not imagining this is going to be a well followed series, but I'm genuinely quite interested. Pietersen needs to get back into form, and I'm also interested in seeing Steven Finn bowl a bit.

It starts at stupid o'clock, and with a bit of intrigue as well- Raqibul Hasan from their middle order decided to retire from Test Cricket the day before a game he was going to play in. He's 22. A bit odd perhaps?

[sonicyouth]

it's england, it's test cricket, i'll be listening to TMS. ahhh.

[Nemo]

Exactly. In perhaps the more important TMS Teamnews, Agnew has not been rested, and Hughes and Mann are reasonable too. I believe we get Dominic Cork and Mark Butcher though, so the summarizers lineup is somewhat below strength. Oh, and Ali Mitchell to wind up the mysoginists a bit.

[sonicyouth]

i don't think ali mitchell is going, not according to her twitter anyway...

it's a bit of a poor summer of cricket this year, anti-climactic after last summer i suppose.

[Saxondale]

Lets get Blofeld out there!  Commentating on Bangladeshi buses and pigeons.

[Samdy Gray]

The best news of all is that Paul Collingwood is now on Twitter and has already jumped on the 'pick on Swanny' bandwagon.

[MichaelPook]

cool - have to check Collys twitter!

Looking forward to this one - as Im off on Friday!

early start tho - 3:30 AM

My side would be
Cook
Trott
Bell
Pietersen
Collingwood
Prior
Broad (hopefully fit)
Swann
Bresnan
Tredwell
Shahzad
12th Man Wright

[Nemo]

Supposedly we're playing 6 specialist bats, which I personally think it pathetic against Bangladesh,

Team likely to be: Carberry, Cook, Trott, Pietersen, Collingwood, Bell, Prior, Broad, Swann, Bresnan, Tredwell.

Don't really fancy only two pace bowlers much, but I suppose Trott and Colly will get a few overs.

[Iffy's Onion Bhaji]

Where's Struass?

[Nemo]

Resting. Him and Anderson have been given the whole series off.

Onions and Frontbottom have done their backs as well, so we're going to be looking at a rather different bowling attack.

[Iffy's Onion Bhaji]

Resting? Missing a test series? Do you think we'll see the likes of Rooney and Gerrard resting for the WC? Crazy.

[Samdy Gray]

It's about the equivalent of England vs. Denmark in footballing terms though Rich. They've got that little bit of talent that could cause us problems, but winning should just be pretty much a formality.

I think it's fair enough that Strauss and Anderson were given a rest. Strauss hadn't missed an innings for a stupid amount of time and Jimmy's been our frontline bowler since the tour of New Zealand.

[Iffy's Onion Bhaji]

Maybe so but just thought that as a player surely you'd want to play at the highest level and for your country? Just seemed odd to me.

[DMR]

Supposedly we're playing 6 specialist bats, which I personally think it pathetic against Bangladesh,

Team likely to be: Carberry, Cook, Trott, Pietersen, Collingwood, Bell, Prior, Broad, Swann, Bresnan, Tredwell.

Don't really fancy only two pace bowlers much, but I suppose Trott and Colly will get a few overs.

I guarantee we don't go in with just 2 seamers

[DMR]

Finn's in, hope he does well, a real talent.

Bresnan at 10 makes our tail look pretty tasty.