Key occasions
1st over: England 9-0 (Buttler 5, Salt 2) Salt is sort of bowled by an arm ball that slides simply previous the stumps however runs away for a coupe of leg-byes. England look busy and rotate the strike earlier than Buttler bunts for 4 off the ultimate ball.
Hello to John Starbuck!
“Hi Jim. There ought to be a word for the sensations of satisfaction lying in following England’s cricket in the sub-continent while the snow is building outside. Any ideas?”
Over to you OBO hivemind. I’ll get me pondering cap on.
In the Sky Studio Steve Finn and Nasser Hussain are doing a pleasant bit evaluating Rehan Ahmed to Adil Rashid. I used to be going to submit some nuggets however my two yr outdated daughter bundles into the room and she or he’s painted herself blue. Two issues: 1) She’s extremely happy with herself and a couple of) I’m not on obligation.
The gamers are popping out onto the sphere. Buttler and Salt are up high for England. Nasun Ahmed has the ball in hand. Play!
Why thanks for asking Kevin. I had an enormous bowl of rigatoni and fell asleep on the couch in entrance of ‘Severance’.
Just returned house from dinner at a pals place. On the way in which house, we noticed 2 leopards, elephant, buffalo and needed to do 2 u-turns as we couldn’t get previous a delight of lion & a dam was flooded.
How was your night?
— Kevin Pietersen🦏 (@KP24) March 8, 2023
Pre-match studying:
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Some of the best gamers the sport has seen had been solid by their instant childhood atmosphere; cricket is embellished by these home-spun strategies and idiosyncrasies.
Jasprit Bumrah honed his deadly bull-whip yorker as a toddler by repeatedly bowling on the skirting board in the hall of his condominium block in Ahmedabad. If the ball hit the skirting on the total it will make just one muffled thud, all the higher for not waking his mom from her afternoon nap.
Lasith Malinga’s side-armed, slingshot motion is a direct response to studying cricket on the seashores of Sri Lanka’s south-west coast. Bowling with a shaved and burnt tennis ball, Malinga quickly labored out that the simplest supply in seaside cricket was a yorker that took the sand out of the equation and zeroed in on the driftwood stumps and his opponents’ naked ft.
Please do regale me with tales of your personal yard cricket video games. Yes, you may be out first ball!
I’m on electronic mail and Twitter. So there you go.
Here are the groups in full:
Bangladesh: Rony Talukdar, Najmul Hossain Shanto, Litton Das, Shakib Al Hasan (c), Towhid Hridoy, Afif Hossain, Shamim Hossain, Taskin Ahmed, Nasum Ahmed, Hasan Mahmud, Mustafizur Rahman
England: Phil Salt, Jos Buttler, Dawid Malan, Ben Duckett, Moeen Ali, Sam Curran, Chris Woakes, Chris Jordan, Adil Rashid, Jofra Archer, Mark Wood
Bangladesh win the toss and can bowl
A load of outdated toss… Joss Buttler loses seven on the bounce and ‘Our man in Chattogram’ – Simon Burnton – pings me a fast electronic mail to say it’s 1 out of 15 referred to as accurately by England’s skipper.
England’s seventh white-ball of the yr. Jos Buttler has misplaced all seven tosses. Bangladesh bowling first.
England omit Rehan Ahmed and Reece Topley. pic.twitter.com/4rnklpoVca
— Will Macpherson (@willis_macp) March 9, 2023
Preamble
Hello and welcome to the ultimate furlong, the final dance, the spluttering encore of England’s (males’s) white ball winter schedule. I make this T20 sequence towards Bangladesh their ninth sequence in seven months, relationship again to final October’s historic return to Pakistan.
They’ve taken in 5 international locations on their six excursions, Christopher Columbus’ would possible wince at their globe traversing efforts and he didn’t have to fret about his strike fee or securing a spot in upcoming white ball World Cups/ profitable franchise tournaments.
The first of this three match sequence will get underway at 9am GMT and I’ll be right here to OBO the motion. I’ll convey the information of the toss and groups from Chattogram shortly (from my couch in South London) however in the meantime Simon Burnton is our man on the bottom and right here’s one he ready earlier:
Matthew Mott, England’s white-ball coach, mentioned of this sequence that “you can’t waste these opportunities on the subcontinent and the majority of players are pushing for ODI selection … so it’s probably more geared towards the ODI World Cup.” They go into it with a barely modified squad, Jason Roy and James Vince having left the group whereas Ben Duckett and Chris Jordan have joined, the previous jetting in from the Test tour of New Zealand to press his case as a white-ball batter in the subcontinent, one he made so impressively in averaging 46.6, with a strike fee of 158.2, throughout the T20 sequence in Pakistan final yr.
With Will Jacks again house recovering from a thigh damage the squad is gentle on batters, all of whom can anticipate to play each sport whereas the bowlers rotate. Jofra Archer was the one participant who missed Tuesday’s coaching session, having been instructed to relaxation after his exertions in Monday’s remaining ODI. This doesn’t rule him out of the opening match, however does illustrate how cautious England are being about his return from a number of accidents.”
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