Bell and Prior watch as Bangladesh march on
So I wake up this morning to see that Bangladesh have almost mustered 300 in the first innings of the 2nd test in Mirpur, against England. They eventually closed on 330-8, with Mr Graeme Swann claiming another 3 wickets (30 – 4 – 94 – 3) and debutant James Tredwell claiming 85 – 2 off of his 29 overs. It’s clear that Bangladesh are improving as a test cricket nation, their current score of 330 almost equalling their second innings fight at Chittagong, they still have a long way to go.
That being said, England’s lack of penetration it terms of seam bowling is rather worrying. It was only 5 years ago that it was an attack formed of messers Flintoff, Jones, Harmison and Hoggard. The attack of today seems rather dull and lacking in match winning characteristics. Although Tim Bresnan, Steven Finn and Stuart Broad are fine bowlers, with good records at the county championship level, are the test match bowlers??
Compare England’s current attack to the one lead by Flintoff in the 2005 Ashes and which one are you more scared of and which one is more likely to get (knock) you out?!
I’m guessing what I’m saying is that the current seam attack don’t have the same aura and ability as they used to, and this is really evident in the way that Bangladesh, the lowest ranked team on the test match ladder, are fighting against them. But how do they get this X Factor back?? Pick the 2005 Ashes attack maybe??
Paul
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