Ok, Flintoff has figured out how to bat well, Bowl crap and then he can hit runs - seems like he has turned into a se-saw, currently 14 off 12 balls.

... and there he goes, clean bowled for 23 by Rafique. Cricinfo says he "looked as impotent as a club no 11". No feet movement at all. Doesn't read all that well, but I haven't seen it. Maybe that's a good thing. England should be safe, but they have been known to collapse once or twice before, and they are still 34 runs shy of the target with five wickets remaining.

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And there goes Bopara for a duck. Also bowled by Rafique in the same over. There is a game on here!

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We are going to lose this.

Well this is now an exciting game for me now - Bangladesh wins and I have enough to pay for streaming to watch the rest of the tournamnet - now just to convince work that it is part of my job to watch the cricket.

No Flintoff bowled to a team plan with the weird field rather than extra slips, he tried that in the last game.

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No it was obviously a plan - did you see the field he was given?, just silly bowling.

Had he bowled a normal line - to a normal field, it IMO would have been a different story.

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Well surely England cant lose this one now 8 runs with 4 wickets and 10 overs left

No I doubt it A-Y - not a bad show really,because unlike other teams England have not slipped up against the minor teams Ireland - Canada - Bangladesh, like some Test nations have.

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It all depends on your view of slipping up, England should win from here - but Englands chances may come down to NRR - This is where they may have slipped up after bowling Bangladesh out for 143 and then taking 44 to 45 overs to score the runs.

That may just come back to haunt them.