Bangladesh UAE Tour, September 22-27, 2022

[Eshen]

BD team is scheduled to travel to Dubai next week for a T20I prep camp. Following the camp, they will play two matches against UAE team on Sep 25 & 27. Shakib will skip the tour as he is away with his CPL team. If fit, VC Sohan will lead the team. World cup standby players will also travel with the team.

Schedule:
September 25: 1st T20I
September 27: 2nd T20I

Bangladesh Squad:
Litton Das, Najmul Shanto, Sabbir Rahman, Mehedy Miraz, Afif Hossain, Mosaddek Hossain, Yasir Ali, Nurul Hasan (Captain, WK), Saifuddin, Taskin Ahmed, Ebadot Hossain, Mustafizur Rahman, Hasan Mahmud, Nasum Ahmed

Standby: Soumya Sarkar, Shoriful Islam, Sheikh Mahedi, Rishad Hossain

[Eshen]

As it stands now, leading up to world cup, we have two matches agasint UAE (who may potentially win a place in Group 2, along with us, in WC), four matches in NZ (two matches each against Pak and NZ), potentially a place in the Tri-nation final, and then two warm up matches against AFG and SA - a total of 8-9 matches building up to WC. There should be no excuse about prep for the WC!

[Eshen]

UAE declared their WC squad:

CP Rizwan (C), Vriitya Aravind (VC), Chirag Suri, Muhammad Waseem, Basil Hameed, Aryan Lakra, Zawar Farid, Kashif Daud, Karthik Meiyappan, Ahmed Raza, Zahoor Khan, Junaid Siddique, Sabir Ali, Alishan Sharafu, and Aayan Khan.

Reserves: Sultan Ahmed, Fahad Nawaz, Vishnu Sukumaran, Adithya Shetty, Sanchit Sharma

[godzilla]

Ai beta ki typer captain. Leaves national team duty to play in a franchise t20 match. Your team got their arse handed to them in the first round of Asia Cup and instead of trying to figure out what will work and what won't work for the wc, Mr I am the best went to play franchise cricket ...

[Eshen]

Originally Posted by godzilla
Ai beta ki typer captain. Leaves national team duty to play in a franchise t20 match. Your team got their arse handed to them in the first round of Asia Cup and instead of trying to figure out what will work and what won't work for the wc, Mr I am the best went to play franchise cricket ...

We have a very limited number of quality T20I players, not really much Shakib can do here. Instead of him showing up to bully UAE, this gives Sujon-Sriram opportunities to see what other players have to offer.

Shakib is actually struggling with his own T20 form, which was apparent in last IPL. Playing in CPL, imo, is better for him to sort out his own issues (especially batting), before he joins the team in NZ.

[Night_wolf]

Originally Posted by Eshen
We have a very limited number of quality T20I players, not really much Shakib can do here. Instead of him showing up to bully UAE, this gives Sujon-Sriram opportunities to see what other players have to offer.

Shakib is actually struggling with his own T20 form, which was apparent in last IPL. Playing in CPL, imo, is better for him to sort out his own issues (especially batting), before he joins the team in NZ.

U sure he could have bullied UAE?

[Eshen]

Originally Posted by Night_wolf
U sure he could have bullied UAE?

If I remember correctly, when Shakib and Tamim still were playing for U/19, a visiting UAE team lost matches against our U/19 team. Those guys belong to a totally different level than our current sorry bunch. BTW, Shakib just blasted a quickfire fifty against likes of Holder and Mujeeb in CPL.

[Eshen]

Rumor is that this may be the last chance for Soumya, to swap a place in WC squad. Soumya-Sabbir may open (Miraz is being overlooked as Sriram is still not convinced on his skills against pacers. Plus, Sriram wants to try a left-right combo). So, possible XI -

Soumya
Sabbir
Litton (playing at 3 in Shakib's absence, but likely to be bumped down to 4 from the NZ series)
Afif
Yasir
Sohan
Mosaddek
Saifuddin
Taskin/Ebadot
Nasum
Mustafiz

Saifuddin maybe under scrutiny this tour as well. Once Shakib returns, it will be possible to go with 8 batters+3 genuine pacers (each who can bowl 140+ KPH) from NZ series. So, Saifuddin may have to prove his worth with both bat and ball this tour.

Matches will start 8PM BDT next Sunday and Tuesday.

[Night_wolf]

In my humble opinion this Sriram idiot is killing Liton's form. He was doing excellent opening and should remain there

[godzilla]

Lol, Sabbir.

[Eshen]

Originally Posted by Night_wolf
In my humble opinion this Sriram idiot is killing Liton's form. He was doing excellent opening and should remain there

From what we hear from Miraz, sounds like he and Sabbir are expected to play pinch hitting high risk short cameos. Litton is probably expected to play a longer and more conventional innings. Thus he's being sent after the initial assaults (or attempted assaults).

[Night_wolf]

Originally Posted by Eshen
From what we hear from Miraz, sounds like he and Sabbir are expected to play pinch hitting high risk short cameos. Litton is probably expected to play a longer and more conventional innings. Thus he's being sent after the initial assaults (or attempted assaults).

How can you have 2 pitch hitters as opener? What tactic is that? Why would you risk one batting position that have a settle player where there are lots of batting positions he could have done experiment with

[adamnsu]

I hope Shabbir announce his retirement from International cricket after the game ends

Absolute rubbish!

[adamnsu]

Can someone pinch hit the selectors and Shabbir after today's repeat performance

[Night_wolf]

Sabbir the opener falls..please put liton to open

[Night_wolf]

2 down for world T20 ice-cream cup champions

[adamnsu]

Discarded stuff should remain in the dustbin.
Should be curtains for Shabbir

[godzilla]

What a performance ... Even after the crappy bowling uae is dishing out, these guys found creative ways to get out. Bravo

[adamnsu]

Yasir Ali doesn’t seem like a sound player either and looks really fat to play international cricket

[adamnsu]

Yasir Air the idiot doesn’t disappoint and as expected

[adamnsu]

Nasum? He should only be used in Bangladesh. This guy has absolutely no control and loves bowling short. He needs the wickets to be a spinning minefield. Miraz used to be the same but has since improved but only slightly

[Night_wolf]

Lol this team is playing T20 world cup second round straight...we should withdraw from the cup.

Should have played the qualifier to see if we could have even qualify for the WC

[adamnsu]

Really don’t understand this obsession playing Yasir Ali. The guy is unfit just like Akram Khan was . These days you can’t have med bhuris in the team for so called competitive ones

[adamnsu]

Chirag Suri…:what a nice Arab name lol

[adamnsu]

Even Shamim’s cringe selection in the commentary box shows how poor Bangladesh mens cricket is currently