Ahmed_B
June 19, 2005, 11:05 AM
With the victory over Australia... suddenly the nightmare tour to England has rightfully turned into a Dream-tour for the BD team. Australians have already shown that they are not in the best of forms... and they are also devoid of few of their very best players like Lee or Warne. But after all they are at the top and are expected to comfortably dominate a new-rising team like Bangladesh even if half their original team is replaced by newcomers. It could be said that considering their form and injury problem the Aussies are currently playing at 80% of their original strength. But the difference between the Tigers and the Aussies in terms of cricket-heritage and strength is so immense that the Tigers must get a world-full of credits for this win. :up:
But on the midway of the tour, since the Aussies have started to confront the English the real flavor of the season has started to reveal. It may sound like something too early to say... but I do feel that in this summer the English are the real favorites throughout the Natwest and the Ashes... and that is really because of England being at it’s peak of form with all the support from the conditions that they can get. The English bowling attack has become almost the best of the world over the last few months and their batsmen have also gained tremendous confidence.
In short, between the two other opponents, the English are really the harder side to stand upto this summer. And I will say that we really have been very wrongly getting upset for being thrashed by them. But yet again... we are not anywhere near as bad a team as we looked to be while playing the English... even though they are in top form at the moment. So I would say we have only one job done in this tour yet another very important one to deliver!!
:cool:
Beating England? Naa... don’t worry I won’t become over-hyped now by anything like that!
But yes... it is time to use the new-gained self-belief to find some answers to the challenges that England has been throwing at us by highly dominating our team. We have shown signs of comeback against them in the last Test innings and lets just lunch from there and show some high nerves in the coming 3 games vs. the English teams.
So in the remaining 5 matches of the Natwest... the task is to raise the level of our average performance and do that specially against the ‘more-in-form’ English Team.
Pushing England in one or two games real hard against their victory would be a great achievement and we need to do that before we leave England!!
:flag:Best Regards to the Tigers!!:flag:
But on the midway of the tour, since the Aussies have started to confront the English the real flavor of the season has started to reveal. It may sound like something too early to say... but I do feel that in this summer the English are the real favorites throughout the Natwest and the Ashes... and that is really because of England being at it’s peak of form with all the support from the conditions that they can get. The English bowling attack has become almost the best of the world over the last few months and their batsmen have also gained tremendous confidence.
In short, between the two other opponents, the English are really the harder side to stand upto this summer. And I will say that we really have been very wrongly getting upset for being thrashed by them. But yet again... we are not anywhere near as bad a team as we looked to be while playing the English... even though they are in top form at the moment. So I would say we have only one job done in this tour yet another very important one to deliver!!
:cool:
Beating England? Naa... don’t worry I won’t become over-hyped now by anything like that!
But yes... it is time to use the new-gained self-belief to find some answers to the challenges that England has been throwing at us by highly dominating our team. We have shown signs of comeback against them in the last Test innings and lets just lunch from there and show some high nerves in the coming 3 games vs. the English teams.
So in the remaining 5 matches of the Natwest... the task is to raise the level of our average performance and do that specially against the ‘more-in-form’ English Team.
Pushing England in one or two games real hard against their victory would be a great achievement and we need to do that before we leave England!!
:flag:Best Regards to the Tigers!!:flag: