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Look at how that worked for Moeen.
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LukeParkerno1
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Doing alright at the moment for England with both runs and wickets
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Exactly, so if Agar is a second spinner and so is Moeen according to the English camp, why wouldnt that benefit us?
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Huh? I want Agar in the side, well at least in these conditions.
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Travis Head looks likely the most similar to Ali imo
Agar is a much better batsman than he is a bowler
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Bangladesh just announced their Test squad
Mushfiqur Rahim (capt & wk), Tamim Iqbal, Imrul Kayes, Liton Das, Soumya Sarkar, Shakib Al Hasan, Sabbir Rahman, Mustafizur Rahman, Taijul Islam, Mehedi Hasan, Taskin Ahmed, Mosaddek Hossain, Nasir Hossain, Shafiul Islam
http://www.espncricinfo.com/bangladesh-v-australia-2017/content/story/1117121.html
Mushfiqur Rahim (capt & wk), Tamim Iqbal, Imrul Kayes, Liton Das, Soumya Sarkar, Shakib Al Hasan, Sabbir Rahman, Mustafizur Rahman, Taijul Islam, Mehedi Hasan, Taskin Ahmed, Mosaddek Hossain, Nasir Hossain, Shafiul Islam
http://www.espncricinfo.com/bangladesh-v-australia-2017/content/story/1117121.html
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Australia's tour game before he 1st test washed out. Not the best preparation
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Glad the pay dispute didn't scupper this series. Not fair on the Bangas.
Bit worried with Warner and Khawaja in the top 3.
Renshaw and Handscomb made regular contributions in India but we can't remain too Smith centric.
Renshaw and Handscomb made regular contributions in India but we can't remain too Smith centric.
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Surely they don't drop Maxwell? He had the second highest average of anyone from Australia the last tour
Yep I reckon he makes it probably over Cartwright. Would prefer a third seamer though
A single two day game was far from the best to begin with, but going in cold with most having played no FC cricket for a long time is a worry.
Should still beat Bangladesh, but not easily.
Yeah, I almost added that it was expected at the time that Australia should have won in Sri Lanka and it didn't turn out that way.
Bangladesh are still inexperienced and prone to collapses with the bat; as are Australia; and some bad sessions in the field. I still think Australia should win, but 1-1 is a distinct possibility. A loss would be a surprise but hardly a great shock.
Overall because of their bowlers Australia does boast the edge in experience.
But when you look at the core of each team's batting you might get a surprise.
Mushfiqur (54), Tamim Iqbal (49), Shakib (49), Imrul Kayes (28), Mominul Haque (22) gives their main 5 batsmen 202 games worth of experience.
Smith (54), Warner (64), Khawaja (23), Handscomb (8) and Renshaw (8) have 157 between them.
Of even more interest is the fact that on the cricinfo tour page, Smith is listed as an all-rounder.
A somewhat loose definition these days it seems.
Cartwright is a batsman though. You can't really consider him an all-rounder.
Also, Bangladesh having a lot of left-handers will probably give more opportunities for Maxwell to bowl in tandem with Lyon than before.
last test at the ground ended in 3 days so even considering they might lose a day would still be unlikely to be a draw. If we bat second the possibility of us batting out a draw in any circumstances is about 1/10 anyway.
lets be realistic, if Smith fails in both tests we'll lose the series. if you check out the ICC batting rankings (http://www.lgiccrankings.com/ranking/test/batting/) we have Smith at a historical high of 941, ranked no1. Our next best is Warner at 759 (ranked 11th) and Khawaja at 718 (ranked 14th). Both are walking wickets on the sub continent.
Probably going in with the flimsiest batting line up since the early 90s.
LukeParkerno1
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They may want to look a bit into the future with the aSHES COMING UP. personally whilst Maxwell is a good player of spin, I'd be more confident with Cartwright at 6 in the Ashes.
Exactly. He is a batsman, Excellent fielder who bowls a bit.
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