Match bulletin : Feisty Tigers gunned down by South Africa

[Miraz]

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Twenty20 World Championship, 2007
Feisty Tigers gunned down by South Africa
15 September 2007
A feisty Bangladesh succumbed to a seven wicket defeat against host South Africa in the second and final group stage match of the Twenty20 world cup at Newlands in Cape Town today.
Chasing a modest target of 145 to win, South Africa eased to victory with 7 balls to spare after withstanding the ferocious onslaught by Bangladesh top order.

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[Russell2k7]

Miraz bhai actually it was Albie Morkel who scored 41 in 29 but Morne Morkel was MOB due his bowling.

[Miraz]

Miraz bhai actually it was Albie Morkel who scored 41 in 29 but Morne Morkel was MOB due his bowling.

Already corrected. :)

[Miraz]

Here's a nice read from Andrew McGlashan

Time for tempered aggression
Andrew McGlashan in Cape Town
September 15, 2007
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One of the off-field entertainments in place during this tournament is the dancers placed around the boundary edge who jump onto stage with each boundary that's hit or wicket which falls. It's a miracle none of them collapsed of exhaustion the way Bangladesh flew out of the blocks at Newlands. Few, if any, innings, even in Twenty20, have begun in such astonishing style and after 4.2 overs the score line read 58 for 4. There'd barely been a ball where the dancers hadn't been up on their podiums.
Bangladesh batted with a freedom of a team who knew they were already in the next stage, but you sense that they wouldn't have played much differently if the situation hadn't been so comfortable. They have some of the most naturally aggressive batsmen in the game - one of the reasons their Test growth has been much more stunted than in limited-overs cricket - and once the big shots began it was hard to stop them.

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[Anher]

Ok.... now i have to say i liked bangladesh's strategy in the game against South Africa. They were practicing murderous batting in light of the game against Australia. They have a fear Australia will post 200up if batting first hence come the strategy. It could have been hell of a success if few early wickets wasn't fall.
Whatever boom boom Aftab, ash did it came just from middle of the bat and a treat to watch. I think they will come out tomorrow with same strategy if batting first.
In another word its called do or die....i hope and pray tamim and namiz's luck tomorrow run sky high.

I guess very very few BC members with me......

[Russell2k7]

Ok.... now i have to say i liked bangladesh's strategy in the game against South Africa. They were practicing murderous batting in light of the game against Australia. They have a fear Australia will post 200up if batting first hence come the strategy. It could have been hell of a success if few early wickets wasn't fall.
Whatever boom boom Aftab, ash did it came just from middle of the bat and a treat to watch. I think they will come out tomorrow with same strategy if batting first.
In another word its called do or die....i hope and pray tamim and namiz's luck tomorrow run sky high.

I guess very very few BC members with me......

Well I agree! They just used this game as a batting practice needed against the mighty Aussie. I think they could have easily slowed down but there was no point really in this match. With that being said they should use the same strategy but need to calm down like after 6 overs or so.

[DJ Sahastra]

My take.

BD team lost a couple of wickets too many quite early on.

Wild slog, and if you are attempting that to every delivery, is gonna give you a 4 or a 6 or take your wicket. Today's BD batting was just that. The score was in keeping with the approach.

You cannot lose 4 wickets in 1st 6 overs and hope to cross 150.

Nonetheless, this is a team worthy of top-3 in this 20-20 tournament (India team is worthy of maybe top-8 is all i can say).

[al Furqaan]

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Nonetheless, this is a team worthy of top-3 in this 20-20 tournament (India team is worthy of maybe top-8 is all i can say).

much as we'd like to think so, BD is not that great of a T20 outfit. are we better at T20s than tests? yes. ODIs maybe, maybe not. we can beat anyone in either limited overs format as we've proved time and again, but we have yet to prove that we are consistent. for that we need to win 2-3 games on the trot against top class opposition.

but don't worry, DJ, there will be a time in the not too distant future that BD will surpass them all.

:-D

[Niceman70]

Ok.... now i have to say i liked bangladesh's strategy in the game against South Africa. They were practicing murderous batting in light of the game against Australia. They have a fear Australia will post 200up if batting first hence come the strategy. It could have been hell of a success if few early wickets wasn't fall.
Whatever boom boom Aftab, ash did it came just from middle of the bat and a treat to watch. I think they will come out tomorrow with same strategy if batting first.
In another word its called do or die....i hope and pray tamim and namiz's luck tomorrow run sky high.

I guess very very few BC members with me......



im with u..

[Miraz]

My take.

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Nonetheless, this is a team worthy of top-3 in this 20-20 tournament (India team is worthy of maybe top-8 is all i can say).


DJ bro missed your presence.

Welcome back, you are back at the crunch time. :)

[DJ Sahastra]

This was the match that i actually followed and was thrilled, upset, disappointed - all in one. I wasn't able to elaborate much at that time because of omy ther assignments, but here is what i wanted to say back then.

The idea of Ashraful & Company to go for the broke was actually a good idea. Surprise the SA team with a ferocious assaualt that is enough to stun them - seemed to be an out-of-the-box thinking and kudos to the team-management on the strategy alone.

The aggrssive intent was actually quite thrilling.

Where it all fell apart was improvisation and the back-up plan - and if i may add, lack of cricketing acumen.

#1. You cannot have a wild swing at everything thrown to you. There are good deliveries, here are ordinary deliveries and there are rank-bad deliveries. To me, it seemed like the bat was being swung at no-matter what is being thrown to the batsman. That can only work for a short while or if you have way too much luck. Aggressive shots do not always mean wild heaves.

#2. You have to consolidate at some point. It means forming a meaningful partnership of substance. In 20-20, it need not be a huge partnership but something enough to make sure you have some kind of platform to launch a final assault. Nobody seemed to have thought out that aspect when BD team batted.

#3. Plan B. When things start to fall apart, you have to deviate from a fixated approach. That is what cricketing brain is all about. When your team has lost the first 4-5 batsman, the ones to follow have a greater responsibility to cut down on swing-aways and risky shots and consolidate the inning for a while. Or when the team is already 2-3 wicekts down, the next batsman should focus not only on keeping a good scoring rate but also on making sure that wickets don't get thrown away. It seemed there aws no plan B.

The disappointing aspect of the game was that i knew it is gonna be downhill from here. Just a little-bit of common-sense and improvisation would've easily added 30-40 runs more to taht score of 144 and given the BD bowling, which carried itself so impressively thanks to the likes of the twin R's (Rasel & Razzaq), it would've been a match where the odds would've been raised more in favour of the guest team.

A final word on the whole Kapali debate - his performance definitely warranted giving opportunity to someone more deserving. Junayed for one exceeded expectations with performance worthy of laurels. That said, his 44 ball-19 can easily be understood given every batsman who was walking in was hitting out and he felt he should keep one end safe. I am sure he had some plans at hitting out at the later stage and fell trying to do that - a bad day for him. If he had managed to connect a couple of lusty blows, it would've easily been 30-odd runs and we would be looking at his inning from a diffeernt perspective - that is cricket. But i am not sure what to say of the batsman around who who were all too content with "come-and-go" kind of approach.

Finally, Ashraful has to take some responsibility for not having a back-up plan and himself being guilty of too much adrenalin. This match's story could easily have ben an exact opposite of what it turned out to be. The sad part is - this is not the first time that we have seen that.