Tuesday 30 March 2010

England 2-0 Bangladesh

Well it wasn't overly surprising that England left the test match series against Bangladesh with a 2-0 series win and I am going to rate each of the 12 players that played on how I thought they performed over the course of the series.

Alastair Cook - Had a good series with the bat and without a doubt will be the next captain of the team when Andrew Strauss is out of the way. Scored a brilliant hundred on the final day to help England win the second test. (Rating: 8/10)

Michael Carberry - Only played in the first test and unfortunately for him he couldn't get the big hundred that would stop the selectors dropping him after this test. Probably a one test wonder. (Rating: 4/10)

Jonathan Trott - Had a pretty poor run with the bat scores wise, but was also unfortunately prone to weird dismissals, not to mention he was given out caught off his helmet, will hopefully get more runs this summer when Bangladesh visit here. (Rating: 6/10)

Kevin Pietersen - Played a good innings to help in the final run chase to finish it off with captain Cook also scored a composed 99. Shame he didn't get the hundred he was looking for but some good signs for ahead. (Rating: 7/10)

Paul Collingwood - Had a rarity of a thing, a bad series. It is not often that he gets either no runs or wickets but he batted quite ordinarily at most times and he wasn't available to bowl. Expecting more from him this Summer. (Rating: 4/10)

Ian Bell - Finally showed us exactly what he could do and got the monkey off his back by making a hundred in trying conditions and without any of his teammates making one. Hopefully he will keep it up this year and into the Ashes. (Rating: 8/10)

Matt Prior - Good with the gloves in the first test but lost it a bit in the second test. Definitely still a good batsmen and without a doubt a team player, as even when he is going well he thinks about the team before his own situation. (Rating: 6/10)

Tim Bresnan - Had a fantastic series and some good runs and wickets and should have had his first test match hundred if it was not for a rush of blood to the head. A fantastic prospect and there is no doubt that if we want to play 5 bowlers he can easily bat at number 7. (Rating: 8/10)

Graeme Swann - Man of the series without a doubt. 10 Wickets in the first game and some good bowling in the second means that Swann (who is ranked the number 2 bowler in the world) gets my man of the series award and he was brilliant throughout both test matches and bowled a lot of overs. (Rating: 9/10)

Stuart Broad - Had a quiet series, unfortunately he is going through a bad patch with the bat but his bowling is still good its just unfortunate that the pitches really didn't offer a lot of assistance but he still bowled well and got some key wickets. (Rating: 5/10)

Steven Finn - Wrong place to try and play him, he should never have been given a debut on pitches that would have no bounce or movement. Definitely one for the future though he might want to forget about this tour for now. (Rating: 3/10)

James Tredwell - Took a stunning catch after coming on as sub in the first test before he got his chance in the second. Bowled well in both innings and took some key wickets. He should have played in the first test instead of Finn. (Rating: 6/10)