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One step forward, two steps back...
They party too hard after the 1st Test win and New Zealand was always going to hit back hard at home given they are ranked 1 so combine these and this is the result.One step forward, two steps back...
Reverting to type instantly does send them backwards because it is what happens every time they produce an outstanding performance. They’re not new to the international scene any more and it’s not good enough. Why aren’t expectations for them higher by now? Because they haven’t done enough with any consistency to earn any.Not really. No one expected them to go close to winning a test let alone actually winning one. What everyone expected probably in both games is what’s happened in this one. After the first test anything else is really irrelevant to what they would have been hoping to achieve for this series.
If they had 4-5 tests and they won the first and then the next 3-4 were complete drubbings that would be a step backwards but a 1-1 draw with a flogging in the second test doesn’t send them backwards IMO
Reverting to type instantly does send them backwards because it is what happens every time they produce an outstanding performance. They’re not new to the international scene any more and it’s not good enough. Why aren’t expectations for them higher by now? Because they haven’t done enough with any consistency to earn any.
It’s not just this game, it’s a pattern they’ve exhibited for years now.
I didn’t say I expected them to win. I understand what constitutes a ‘good’ performance is relative.What team that’s never won in a SENA nation plays the world champions and is expected to suddenly win 2 in a row?
Memories of Nasser Hussein at the Gabba.Checked the score. Bangas sent them in?? Oops.
Is it just me or do Bangladesh batsmen as a rule play the hook and pull a lot more than the other Asian sides?
Their very first test standard batsman Habibul Bashar was chronic for it and they seem to have a lot of guys who compulsively play it
Surely the only reason to not enforce the follow on here is to make sure the game goes into day 4.
Fair point - OK set them 650.Worth remembering the third best batsman ever to play for their side is retiring at the end of this match and there are 3 days of cricket left in which to give him another innings
Worth remembering the third best batsman ever to play for their side is retiring at the end of this match and there are 3 days of cricket left in which to give him another innings
If there is rain around (forecast isn't terrible but might lose play Day 4) I imagine they will send them back in and make a certainty of it. Especially needing to win to draw the series. Taylor seems like a top bloke. Genuine, humble, soft spoken. I can't imagine he would want the team to give Bangladesh even the slightest chance of holding out for a rain-affected draw.
As an aside, I've only recently started paying more attention to non-Australian tests. It's nice reading along with these slow moving threads that aren't full of hysterical calls to execute players for a dropped catch, accusations of systematic cheating when an umpire doesn't give an LBW, or paranoid Victorian or WA fundamentalists making non-stop garbage posts about players outside their state.
As an aside, I've only recently started paying more attention to non-Australian tests. It's nice reading along with these slow moving threads that aren't full of hysterical calls to execute players for a dropped catch, accusations of systematic cheating when an umpire doesn't give an LBW, or paranoid Victorian or WA fundamentalists making non-stop garbage posts about players outside their state.