Congrats to Team India on winning the 1st Test and congrats to Team Bangladesh on playing a fighting match: Salute to both teams

[bujhee kom]

I want to congratulate Captain Virendrar Shehwag and the Indian team on winning the 1st Test at Chittagong strongly!

I want to congratulate Skipper Shakib Al-Hasan and the fighting Tigers (Team Bangladesh) on playing a well-fought Test match.

I want to celebrate Shakib Al-Hasan And Shahadat Hossain on the 1st innings 5 wkts haul. Samshing!

I want to celebrate the great legend SR Tendulkar's fantastic century in Chittagong! Baaam!

I want to celebrate the samshing century by Gautom Gambhir (5th in a row!!!) in Chittagong! Salaam!

I want to celebrate our beloved little joy Mushfiqur Rahim's fantastic meiden century in Chittagong! Baaam!

I want to celebrate our Tiger Mahmudullah Riayd's fighting half century in Chittagong! Salaam!

I want to celebrate our Tiger Tamim Iqbal Khan's half century in Chittagong! Shazaam!

I want to thank team India from the bottom of my heart for playing us Bangladesh and always being there next to us from our day one in Test cricket. We Bangladesh have a long way to go, but today I rejoice with my Bangladesh family and Indian friends for a good Test match of cricket!

I salute the city of Chittagong for hosting this Test and for being hospitable! I salute to the Indian Cricket fans and the Tigers' fans for always thinking positive and uphold human dignity, honor and love above all. Salaam! :big_hug:

[Bruno]

While I doubt Sehwag upheld dignity, honor or...class...during his pre AND post match interviews, the sort of pomposity that has tainted india's image for years, it was still a well fought game.

I should be grateful we had one good bowling innings, and shades of batting greatness from a few of our players. All in all, at the end of it all, we were only about 100 off from taking it, so it was a brave effort.

Maybe next game comes the big surprise.....

[DJ Sahastra]

I want to congratulate Bujhee Kom for a heart-warming post. :)

[Tigers_eye]

The three centurions, 5 wicket haulers. Well done. Waiting for the 2011 WC openning game. With interest we will dish it out. :) Just wait till the real Tiger makes his grand comeback.

[DJ Sahastra]

Chitta-Gong or Chitta-Gonj - what is the actual name pronounced as?

[godzilla]

The three centurions, 5 wicket haulers. Well done. Waiting for the 2011 WC openning game. With interest we will dish it out. :) Just wait till the real Tiger makes his grand comeback.

just out of curiosity, let's say we win the match against india in WC 11 (i am not saying we will win am just saying what if), what will be the outcome of DHONI'S house? :-D

[Tigers_eye]

^ Avatar. (yours). :)

[magic boy]

Chitta-Gong or Chitta-Gonj - what is the actual name pronounced as?

chi-ta-gong

or

chatgaon(/chatga)

[DJ Sahastra]

just out of curiosity, let's say we win the match against india in WC 11 (i am not saying we will win am just saying what if), what will be the outcome of DHONI'S house? :-D

We will burn his effigy and probably put some graffiti on his house-walls.

And personally, i support effigy burning. I wonder why so many people have problems against such a nice way to express anger :-D

[DJ Sahastra]

chi-ta-gong

or

chatgaon(/chatga)

So if i understand it right, the last 'g' is a 'g' as in goat and not 'g' as in germany.

[magic boy]

goat/gang/give =p

not J/Z pronunciation

[magic boy]

hear it plz (http://www.thefreedictionary.com/Chittagong)

[Eshen]

Sorry, but I don't think it was much of a fight. We dominated only one day - the first day of the match, rest of the match was very much in India's control.

[Neel Here]

Chitta-Gong or Chitta-Gonj - what is the actual name pronounced as?

original/written name was chatto-gram. chittagong/chatgaon is how it is said in the dialect.

[mahbubH]

aar kotodin eishob fighting match dhekte hobee. the chance we missed in this test, will have to wait long time to get that again.

[Nocturnal]

I followed most of this test. Really had some pleasant memories with my family while following....like giving a proper TEST lesson to both women in our Dhaka home....my amma and my wife!! It was fun watching this test with them. My abba always gets angry like Fazal mamu when Ash gets out cheaply (in most cases). It was fun time. Wish the outcome would be in our way. Hopefully we will do it @SBNS.
Congrats India and her fans by the way.

[hoodlum]

Congratz to India for winning an Ordinary (!) Test :notworthy: :-D

[tiger_club]

Sorry, but I don't think it was much of a fight. We dominated only one day - the first day of the match, rest of the match was very much in India's control.

Exactly, until we learn how to bat for an extensive period it will be always the case and our bowling was ordinary in the 2nd innings, we leaked runs all over the place. Ind managed to score almost 5 runs an over and maintained solid partnership as if we’re relying on our luck. IMO apart from few individual performance overall it was poor showing by tigers.

[Ajfar]

BK bhai you should work for UN. You'd make a good Nelson Mandela.

[tiger_club]

pitch got much flatter in the afternoon.. it was our top and middle order batsmen who let us down, if they'd little more serenity we could've won the match..

[Zunaid]

BK bhai you should work for UN. You'd make a good Nelson Mandela.

He is more - Mahatma Martin Mandela

[AsifTheManRahman]

He is more - Mahatma Martin Mandela
Moreover, he's Burger King, Home of the Triple Whopper. Who doesn't like a Tripple Whopper?

[Ajfar]

Moreover, he's Burger King, Home of the Triple Whopper. Who doesn't like a Tripple Whopper?

Aie jinish ta ki? Jackson Heights er Kabab king kinba Khan Baba te pawa jabe?

[al Furqaan]

Sorry, but I don't think it was much of a fight. We dominated only one day - the first day of the match, rest of the match was very much in India's control.

4 out of 5 days of domination results in just a 100 run win?

what do you have to do to win by an innings?

we dominated day one, and then dominated perhaps another 2 half-sessions. thats 3 sessions of play = to a full day. we drew even in india's 2nd innings on a flat track where they scored 413-8. let us assume that on a flat track, batting first we kept them to 450, anyone would be pleased at that performance, much less "ordinary" bowlers from an "ordinary" team. thats definitely an overall "drawn" or even "advantage bangladesh" situation in my book.

where we lost the game, was in the batting, top order batting. those 4 sessions is where we got dominated. so in terms of number of sessions won, it was even or possibly even our slight advantage. but as we know the outcome depends on the product of net number of sessions dominated and the magnitude of domination.

[AsifTheManRahman]

We don't play enough Test cricket and we don't play FC cricket period (at least the national teamers haven't in a while). That we took it to the fifth day and made them bat twice is more than we can expect. Our top/middle orders are ill equipped against half decent fast bowling and patience isn't something that you gain overnight. Bottom line - we need to play more longer version matches to be able to succeed against good sides in Test cricket. For now, I'll take this.

[Eshen]

ATMR, no argument that Bangladesh team played lot better than I expected. Still I don't think this match can be termed as a good fight.

Asad, I did not say BD team was outplayed totally (like we had been in all those innings defeats), but it was still obvious that we were losing half way through the match, ie before the lunch on third day. We caught Indians off guard on day one, for not paying enough respect to opposition or the match condition, but they rectified their mistake from day two and we could not do anything to gain back control of the match from that point.

At best, we can claim victory for three sessions - from lunch of day one to lunch of day two. But rest of the glory goes to India.

[AsifTheManRahman]

ATMR, no argument that Bangladesh team played lot better than I expected. Still I don't think this match can be termed as a good fight.

Oh absolutely. All I was pointing out is that these things will happen often if we don't play more FC cricket.

[Eshen]

The margin was lowered because of the late blitz from Mushfiq. I am happy for him, but in the context of the match - it was a meaningless innings, we knew by then that we were losing (and India knew they were winning).

[beshideshi]

The reason why we could not pull it through was lack of match practice. Our players have not played a single 4day game since July if I am not mistaken, let alone against stronger opponents. As Bangladesh will play more and more test matches they will learn how to use a good day to win a test match. [Some thing the ODI side is developing over the years]

But India showed why they are #1 team, coming from behind, fighting hard, playing as a team. Well done,[except Sehwag, I still hate him :)]

[hitman1980]

Bangladesh played a fighting match?? u really must be joking ..
The match would have been over in 3 days if the weather was clear ..
There wasn't even a little bit of fight shown by bangladesh .. even when India was bowled out for 240 odd bangladesh couldn't take the lead .. and by the time bangladesh came to bat the pitch was way better than it was in the 1st inning for indians ..
It show shows their mental fragility ..
They play the match like t20 and odi .. I really can't believe tht they were given test status so many years back and still they don't know wht test match is all abt .. 250-300 is the max score which bangladesh can get in test matches with this attitude ..
Time is running out for them .. they r still on the same level where they were at the time of starting their test status ..

And u guys try to console urself saying u beat India in WC 2007 .. Agree u did .. But wht after tht? they have beaten u in every match since then .. Bangladesh surely can surprise in odis and t20 but test exposes them very badly ..

[bujhee kom]

^^This is really sad, just simply sad...for people like these the world end up being an aweful place! And yes, sadly, in BC, we have a lot of this type of pests from our Bangladesh side as well.

These are not fans of cricket or the sport, these are simply just mosquitoes in the society! Educated or uneducated, just simply mosquitoes.

[Shobhon]

Bangladesh played a fighting match?? u really must be joking ..
The match would have been over in 3 days if the weather was clear ..
There wasn't even a little bit of fight shown by bangladesh .. even when India was bowled out for 240 odd bangladesh couldn't take the lead .. and by the time bangladesh came to bat the pitch was way better than it was in the 1st inning for indians ..
It show shows their mental fragility ..
They play the match like t20 and odi .. I really can't believe tht they were given test status so many years back and still they don't know wht test match is all abt .. 250-300 is the max score which bangladesh can get in test matches with this attitude ..
Time is running out for them .. they r still on the same level where they were at the time of starting their test status ..

And u guys try to console urself saying u beat India in WC 2007 .. Agree u did .. But wht after tht? they have beaten u in every match since then .. Bangladesh surely can surprise in odis and t20 but test exposes them very badly ..

This guy got banned for this post? Though his post reeks of Sehwag like thoughts, there is some truth to it. Cannot deny that :-|

[Purbasha T]

This guy got banned for this post? Though his post reeks of Sehwag like thoughts, there is some truth to it. Cannot deny that :-|

i think the guilty post got deleted.