England tours of Bangladesh and India

[Kevin S]

England tours of Bangladesh and India


Crucial for Roy to stay in now.

[Ray de Galles]

England tours of Bangladesh and India

Kevchenko wrote: Looked pretty painful in the slow motion replay, too.

Not really, Stokes looks more affronted than hurt.

[Kevin S]

England tours of Bangladesh and India

Kevchenko wrote:
Crucial for Roy to stay in now.

Oh.

[Kevin S]

England tours of Bangladesh and India

Ah fucksticks. Here we go again...

[Kevin S]

England tours of Bangladesh and India

Buttler stumped off a wide. Moeen is in but the odds of England winning this must be lengthening.

[Kevin S]

England tours of Bangladesh and India



Morgan and Moeen are keeping that red worm creeping along, but India had the wickets in hand to smash it about at the end.

[Kevin S]

England tours of Bangladesh and India

Ashwin has bowled his lot now. Good.

England need 113 from the final 10 overs.

[Etienne]

England tours of Bangladesh and India

Decent effort, but the bowling wasn't good enough.

[Kevin S]

England tours of Bangladesh and India

Bit of pressure on Stokes and Woakes to grab the runs in these last six overs. Going to be a lower target for India today.

[Kevin S]

England tours of Bangladesh and India

England finish on 321 for 8 thanks to some quick scoring from those two. Woakes and Plunkett both got run out in that final over but there was nothing to lose in trying to sneak extra scores at that point.

Worm:

[Kevin S]

England tours of Bangladesh and India

http://stats.espncricinfo.com/ci/engine/records/team/highest_innings_totals.html?class=2;id=292;type=gr ound

Seems that's a good score historically for this ground - the highest ever for visitors - but there aren't too many data points that might include the recent upwards trend in 50-over scoring. Only other vaguely recent one is SL 251 vs India 404-5 from 2014.

[ursus arctos]

England tours of Bangladesh and India

India 38 for 2, with Kohli in.

We've seen this film before.

[Kevin S]

England tours of Bangladesh and India

w00t!

[Kevin S]

England tours of Bangladesh and India

The first of the three T20I matches tomorrow, then. And this means it's Tymal Mills time, who has become a T20-only player due to a back injury.

[Kevin S]

England tours of Bangladesh and India

Here we go then; England won the toss and have put India in to bat first.

Any idea why England are in a different colour from the ODIs?

And do we write T20I or, as I've seen elsewhere, IT20?

[Kevin S]

England tours of Bangladesh and India

Kohli facing Mills at the start.

[Kevin S]

England tours of Bangladesh and India

Moeen takes Kohli with his first ball of the match.

[Kevin S]

England tours of Bangladesh and India

Stokes get hit by Raina for a big six, but replies straight away with a gorgeous yorker between bat and ankles to take the wicket.

[Kevin S]

England tours of Bangladesh and India

Mills gets his first England wicket! Huzzah!

[Ray de Galles]

England tours of Bangladesh and India

Kevchenko wrote:
Any idea why England are in a different colour from the ODIs?

To sell shirts?

[Kevin S]

England tours of Bangladesh and India

Dhoni got a couple of boundaries off Jordan at the start of over 20 but the final balls were tighter and India are restricted to a total of 147/7. Good bowling from England, who didn't use Adil Rashid at all in the attack.

[Kevin S]

England tours of Bangladesh and India

Roy and Billings are monstering these first few overs.

[Kevin S]

England tours of Bangladesh and India

Chahal comes on and his spin takes both those openers in the same innings. Nicely done.

[Kevin S]

England tours of Bangladesh and India

Required run rate drops below six now, with eight wickets in hand.

[Kevin S]

England tours of Bangladesh and India

Brilliant fielding from Raina as he saves four runs, jumping for a high one on the boundary and tossing it back into play before his knee hits the rope.