English cricket - winter 2016/2017.

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An interesting few months ahead.

vs Bangladesh

30 September – England Team arrives Dhaka
4 October – Tour match, KSOAS Fatullah, Dhaka
7 October – First ODI (D/N), SBNCS, Dhaka
9 October – Second ODI (D/N), SBNCS, Dhaka
12 October – Third ODI (D/N), ZACS Chittagong
14-15 October – Tour match, M A Aziz, Chittagong
16-17 October – Tour match, M A Aziz, Chittagong
20-24 October – First Test, ZACS, Chittagong
Fri 28 October-1 November – Second Test, SBNCS, Dhaka

vs India


9-13 November: first Test match, Rajkot
17-21 November: second Test match, Vishakapatnam
26-30 November: third Test match, Mohali
8-12 December: fourth Test match, Mumbai
16-20 December: fifth Test match, Chennai
India ODI / IT20 Tour 2017
10 January: One-day warm-up match, Mumbai, CCI
12 January: One-day warm-up match, Mumbai, CCI
15 January: first ODI, Pune
19 January: second ODI, Cuttack
22 January: third ODI, Kolkata
26 January: first IT20, Kanpur
29 January: second IT20, Nagpur
1 February: third IT20, Bangalore

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The squads for the Bangladesh tour (below). I can't believe they've recalled 39 year old Gareth Batty who last played test cricket 11 years ago.


England Test squad for Bangladesh: Cook (capt), Hameed, Root, Ballance, Moeen, Stokes, Bairstow, Woakes, Rashid, Broad, Anderson, Buttler, Finn, Wood, Batty and Ansari, with Duckett as a 17th player.

One-day squad for Bangladesh: Roy, Duckett, Root, Billings, Buttler (capt), Stokes, Moeen, Woakes, Willey, Rashid, Wood, Bairstow, Dawson, Jordan and Plunkett.

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The pitch is starting to break up but most of England's wickets today were just thrown away. They'll be lucky to avoid the follow on now.

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The foot movement of so many of the Indians on these type of pitches is sublime - it's as if they have so much time to play the ball.

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Fans who were at the ground in Mumbai were invited to send messages of support for their team that were then displayed on the giant screen. Well it didn't really go to plan.

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Pathetic.