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I'd love to see 5-0 from the Afghan boys, but if history tells us anything, it is going to be 3-2 to the Afghans who will once again fail to score 300 in any innings no matter how flat the pitch or how loose the bowling. But the bowling looks very strong especially with Mujeeb's mystery spin.

Mahmudullah probably doesn't warrant a spot in the XI purely based on merit. A batting average of 31 is nothing to go gaga over.

One thing I wanted to point out was that we scored 500+ in the subcontinent against a team with 3 specialist spinners (Herath, Sandakan, Perera). Bangladesh faced a total of 86 overs of spin and they maybe played 5 sweep shots the entire innings. Sweeping kind of underlines that sweeping should neve...

SL end day 1 in a strong postion. 187-1.

The benefit of having 500 on the board of course is that if we can spark a collapse, we can still get a lead of 100+ here. With both teams scoring at 4 an over, should be plenty of time to get a result especially if this pitch breaks up.

Collapse on now. 4 wickets for about 30 odd runs.

Mosaddek playing a silly shot to get out. Will need to bat better in the second innings for sure. We really need to get to 450.

Of course the Bangladesh model is hardly applicable to Zimbabwe. Bangladesh was always going to come right, simply by sheer numbers. Awarding Bangladesh test status has ultimately paid off, Zimbabwe I am not so sure. Zimbabwe was always going to struggle to ever get any better even without the coll...

Momin 175 not out...perfect innings. Hathu really did his best to try and ruin his career the past few years...fucking asshat. Mushy out for 92...very disappointing. Mushy has only hit one hundred in Bangldesh...for some reason just can't get the big scores at home. This wicket still has nothing in ...

Possibly the most authoritative day in Bangladesh's test history so far? I think I would rate this just behind day 3 in Wellington last year. Shakib and Mushy had a 350+ partnership scored at 4 an over. Boult, Southee, Wagner, and Santner looked depleted. We threw that draw away - just shows how to...

Vusi advocates the Bangladeshi approach of sticking with essentially the same squad for a decade or more and thinking that they will come right eventually. Of course with our set up having the disparity between FC and international it’s the option they’ve exercised for a long time and it hasn’t rea...

Interestingly this is Mominul's first hundred in the first innings of a match. he now has at least 1 ton in all 4 innings. Last couple of years Momin has flirted with big scores but just fell away. 66 on a tough pitch vs England, 64 in Wellington, 77 in his first innings in SA...good he finally got ...