Team Debut at Lords: An Innings Defeat

[babubangla]

Bangladesh will play their first ever Test at Lords.
Playing first time at Lords, no team ever won a test.
Australia, West Indies, India and Zimbabwe lost the test whereas South Africa, New Zealand, Pakistan and Sri Lanka managed to get a draw. Every Team that lost the first test at Lords suffered an innings defeat.

For Bangladesh, most expected result is a defeat. Following the trend, it should be a innings defeat too.
History is on our side!!!!

Here is the Statistics:

FIRST TESTS AT LORD'S

Australia 1884
Lost by an inns & five runs

South Africa 1907
Match drawn

West Indies 1928
Lost by an inns & 58 runs

New Zealand 1931
Match drawn

India 1932
Lost by inns & 158 runs

Pakistan 1954
Match drawn

Sri Lanka 1984
Match drawn

Zimbabwe 2000
Lost by an inns & 209 runs

[Tintin]

>> Every Team that lost the first test at Lords suffered an innings defeat.

India didn't - it was by just 158 runs.

A very creditable performance considering we gave England (who were nearly at their full strength) quite a bit of scare and as skipper CK Nayudu (the best player in the side) played with a bad hand injury. At the end, the difference between the sides was just the two innings by Douglas Jardine.

http://cricketarchive.com/Archive/Scorecards/f/13/f13667.html

If I may be allowed to boast a bit - Just a week before, the English openers Holmes and Sutcliffe had set the first wicket world record of 555 while playing for Yorkshire. Here. within half an hour of the start. Mohammad Nissar had clean bowled both in a single over, and Frank Woolley was brilliant runout to reduce England to 19/3.

[FaltuRidwanBhai]

tintin bhai kemon asen. onek din por por hotat hota ashen. aro aktu beshi beshi ashen na bhai.

[AsifTheManRahman]

uni bangladeshi non :)

[reverse_swing]

ur Tintin Bhai bangla bujen na.

English: Your Tintin Bhai does not understand Bangla!

Edited on, May 26, 2005, 6:01 AM GMT, by reverse_swing.
Reason: for Tintin!

[Tintin]

Ridwanbhai, translation please (is that what reverse_swing said ?) :(

I should learn atleast to say 'I don't know Bangla' in Bangla. DJ Sahastra often gives me an inferiority complex ;)

[FaltuRidwanBhai]

ohh ki shomossha.
uni tahole amader foreigh moderator.
kheyal thake na ke deshi ke bideshi abar ke british syleti.;)

[AsifTheManRahman]

ok FRB this is enough. I think you should stop bad-mouthing Tin Tin. ;)

[FaltuRidwanBhai]

Originally posted by AsifTheManRahman
ok FRB this is enough. I think you should stop bad-mouthing Tin Tin. ;)

lol.
i didnt say anything trust me Tintin bhai. asif is just playing. lol.

[Mahir]

Originally posted by AsifTheManRahman
ok FRB this is enough. I think you should stop bad-mouthing Tin Tin. ;)

u r the man, asif bhai !!! :P:P:P

[Sham]

Tintin is the man!! Amazing how much he bloody knows about cricket! Ask him who was the highest scorer in the County Championships in 1959, he'll tell you off the top of his head!