Looking at Bresnan today i'm glad he's got his chance in the test squad. I was suprised he was left out of both the South African tour party aswell as this one so he gets a chance he deserves imo.

We really need to find an out and out pace bowler though. We've got so many guys that can bat, field and bowl at 85mph but we're desperate for a 90mph+ man and if we can find one from somewhere we'll have a very handy team in all forms.

Good first day today especially for Cook. Not quite sure what their captain was thinking of putting us in though.

Only dissapointment of the day was Pietersen not getting his 100. To get 99 though was a good effort and he played superbly well for it. He played nice and straight all innings until he got to 99 and for some reason went back to how he's played in the one day series and tried a daft flick.

He looked totally gutted.

He absolutely was. The gloves and the helmet went flying before he reached the dressing room and by all accounts the bat wasn't looking too healthy when he got there! Good knock though and exactly what he needed - some time at the crease.

Top knock from captain Cook and Chittagong has to be seen to be believed!!!!!

what time does it start in the morning?

4 minutes ago. I'm late!!!!

Good knocks from Cook, KP, Colly and Bell.

Swann strikes in his frist over

51-3 I can see them having to follow on here

154-5 at stumps and England are in a great position to win the game very comfortably.

I suppose it's only to be expected that we should go there and win at a canter but it's nice to look like there'll be no slip ups.

Could be on my way to Dhaka on Monday afternoon

Skittled them out and obviously spending abit more time in the middle

England need 5 wickets to win in a full day tomorrow on what has turned into a complete featherbed of a pitch.
Shakib has been proved correct that the pitch would flatten out into a belter holding very few terrors in it but whether they have the determination/skill/luck to bat out another full day is another matter.
Good to see the Bangladeshi's putting up a bit of a fight today though.
They really do need a decent fast/seam bowler though dont they?

Or to start producing pitches that scuff up a bit more and give their four spinners a better chance earlier in games. Hopefully the match referees report on this particular surface won't be glowing just because there's been a stack of runs scored at a good rate, it's simply not been a balanced fight between bat and ball.

England had to battle pretty hard to get that win in the end and i've been a little suprised by come of the criticisim they've recieved about making hard work of it and about Cook not enforcing the follow on. The pitch was as flat as they come and we're missing a couple of our front line bowlers. Also this Bagladesh team aren't the mugs they were a few years ago anymore.

The big mistake England made was pre match in playing 6 batters. If we can't back a 5 man batting line up plus Prior in this series then we probably never will and we're not going to win the Ashes at the end of the year with only 4 bowlers imo.

Time for them to show some guts and leave out a batter in favour of Tredwell for the next test. I'd probably leave out Carberry but Trott must also be under some pressure.

Swann now ranked 2nd in the world. Imagine anyone predicting that 18 months ago?

Unbelievable and with one more test to go over there and the Bangladesh team coming over to play in England followed by Pakistan he'll have every chance of getting to number 1 i'd imagine.

I just can't help wondering have we picked him 4 or 5 years too late? Maybe he wasn't mature enough back though going off a few of the things i've read.