Nothing to Celebrate. We wont go very far

[6alltheway]

Title says it all really. Best we can hope for is to beat WI and Ned (even that will be hard) and hope to have a chance at QF match. but we are not really anywhere near the quality of top 6

[Alchemist]

Only Allah knows how far we'll go. We can only hope and wish for the best. There're a lot of talents in the team and this team can beat anyone if the players believe themselves.

If you've followed the tigers closely for the last 1 year, you should've known this.

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[psi]

Really!! That is what you think after this match. The very fact that BD won the match even after scoring a meagerly 205 vouches to the fact that we will go the second round.

Look up the first class experience of the Irish players....you will be surprised!

[roman]

lets not get so technical here and enjoy this win please :) Yes there were few hick ups but this was a great win

[Zunaid]

We have nothing to celebrate. A poverty stricken country where a large chunk live below the poverty line. We have natural disasters hitting us every year. And come the ice meltdown, we might not even exist.

But we do have 150+ million proud and resilient people, except for one, who look forward instead of backwards.

We happen to feel particular joy having a cricket team that is one of the best in the world. In fact, we are in the top 8.

This same team happens to make it to something little called the World Cup. Yes, the frikkin World Cup.

This little team also might even make it to the QF. That is frikkin huge man.

And you think I won't be celebrating?

If I were in Bangladesh now, I would be out in the street yelling my head off. And I ain't a young college brat anymore.

[Dilscoop]

We really need to be more discipline and professional. We may have won against the Irish, but we can learn a LOT from them.

[kalpurush]

Title says it all really. Best we can hope for is to beat WI and Ned (even that will be hard) and hope to have a chance at QF match. but we are not really anywhere near the quality of top 6
Having a bad day buddy? Cheer up, go out and enjoy the sunshine :)

[amar11432]

Having a bad day buddy? Cheer up, go out and enjoy the sunshine :)

its raining in NYC but the win today will cheer me up.

[Haradhon]

Title says it all really. Best we can hope for is to beat WI and Ned (even that will be hard) and hope to have a chance at QF match. but we are not really anywhere near the quality of top 6

BD may not be as good as any of the top 6 teams, however, I can see that they are not minnows or "ordinary" either.
Today's game tilted toward BD's direction with the catch Tamim took to dismiss O'Brien, who had the ability to take the game away. However Ireland's fall from 151/6 to 178/10 from that point on was not a give-away, but it had to be carefully crafted and executed by a team work that was new to me. I mean Shuvo's catch and Shafiul 4-wt haul definitely complemented what the spinners have done early to keep run rate in check. Gavaskar and Shamim reamrked about using Shafiul as counter-productive, however one might as well argue that it was Shakib's decision to resort to Shafiul's reverse swing accelerated Ireland's fall.

This is what shows that BD team is matruing and they are better than minnows , not "ordinary."

The 2 teams that are likely to win this WC are Ind and S-Lanka becasue of their batting depth and spin edge. Note that we lost to Ind, but not by huge margin.

So to secure a solid 8th place in the ODI chart BD nend to pull a win against SA, WI, and Eng. And then, they are in the 2nd round, even if they lose to N-Land.

BD are not expected to be the semi, but I will be happy as long as they show some fighting spirit against top teams in the 2nd round.

Go Bangladesh, Go...!

[Nocturnal]

its raining in NYC but the win today will cheer me up.

it's killing -22C where I live but trust me it feels lot warmer inside after Tiger's Win. I have all the reasons to celebrate! Wish I'm in dhaka.

[dolcevita]

Really poor thread
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[akabir77]

I think you are wrong sir. This was our fara game. we won this and now we will not be in pressure that much and will win could of more.

[aosaif]

I'm not depressed or all that pleased. But dude, just watch, Ireland will win against West Indies who are bhua compared to the Irish. In fact, I tip the Netherlands game to be just as difficult for us. Roller coaster ride, just as Coach Pont predicted.

I'll keep saying it until somebody listens.....Our batsmen CANNOT set a target!! Bat 2nd always!!

[Neel Here]

on the contrary I get the feeling that this team has not peaked yet, the best is yet to come ! :)

which only bodes well for the future matches of BD.

[aosaif]

on the contrary I get the feeling that this team has not peaked yet, the best is yet to come ! :)

which only bodes well for the future matches of BD.

good analysis :bravo:

[ammark]

on the contrary I get the feeling that this team has not peaked yet, the best is yet to come ! :)

Oh Guruji of the western lands, whom shall we slay with the mightiest swing of our sword? The Proteas of the South, or the Poms of the North? :notworthy:

[_Rafi_]

Oh Guruji of the western lands, whom shall we slay with the mightiest swing of our sword? The Proteas of the South, or the Poms of the North? :notworthy:

why not both? Sword er "Dhar" ki ek kupei chole jai? Use a better sword sir.

[Tehsin]

If our batsmen needed a JOLT, today should have been it. Poor batting against some friendly bowling and field placement. Not sure if it was pressure or not. BUT, here's the big but, the way we came back into this match, the way Shakib rotated his bowlers and stuck to them, the way we fielded and the way the crowd always found a way to cheer on when all seemed lost, makes you realize that we are a far better team than what was on display during the first half of the game. I see ourselves in the QF easy.

(by the way, I did not agree with a lot of Shakib's decisions but guess what, he proved that he knows his shyt and I don't and I am so very happy to be wrong on so many occasions today)

[Neel Here]

I'm not kidding you know. they held their nerves against a traditional pocha shamuk even after bungling the batting bigtime and 40 overs of letting the irish in with a very good chance of winning. that's 90% of the match ! they performed at most at 60% of their potential today and still won comfortably in the end. I think any of the teams outside the sub-continent will find it hard to beat this team on homeground.

[paco]

Title says it all really. Best we can hope for is to beat WI and Ned (even that will be hard) and hope to have a chance at QF match. but we are not really anywhere near the quality of top 6

It is a win. A win we desperately needed to stay alive. A win that seemed unlikely three fourths of the way in to the match.

Since you know we won't go far - do you suggest we just quit ?

[wiseshah]

celebrate but our main job is not done yet. we should have win easily but we made it difficult. it was a tough game . still hard to believe we won. once i thought we lost the match already

[wiseshah]

its raining in NYC but the win today will cheer me up.

dear amar, can u post some video like u did in the opening ceremony. if u have any link

[Neel Here]

oh and people upset about the start BD had to this WC, check pakistan's route to the finals of 1992 and 1999 and India's start to WC 2003.

[Dhakablues]

I think the primary reason they performed bad was the pressure. The team knew that they had to win this match,, for West Indies there will be pressure too but they will think that they have other teams but without the Ireland win, it was going to be pretty obvious that we are not going to the 2nd round. It was a pressure play and when the batsman were nervous they threw away their wickets. I think this was required for them to get their warm up completed.

Remember Pakistan in 1992? How they limped and gained momentum? Well the Captain King Khan said that every world cup has its own momentum and the team that picks it will do the best.. So perhaps Bangladesh is picking up the momentum.. Look at the Aussies, they did better than they did against the Kenyans,, they are also getting their rythm.

I think now that Bravo is out for weeks, West Indies is even weaker and the tigers may very well take this momentum to go far. But I agree,, if we think that we can book the West Indies team in 210 runs,, we are dead wrong. We have to adapt and learn from the past two games, we need to figure out the 6-7 issue and definitely not drop Raqibul!!

[Shakil_TX]

Wait, I thought if we beat West Indies and Nederlands from here, we should be in Quarter Finals, am I thinking wrong?

[One World]

We have nothing to celebrate. A poverty stricken country where a large chunk live below the poverty line. We have natural disasters hitting us every year. And come the ice meltdown, we might not even exist.

But we do have 150+ million proud and resilient people, except for one, who look forward instead of backwards.

We happen to feel particular joy having a cricket team that is one of the best in the world. In fact, we are in the top 8.

This same team happens to make it to something little called the World Cup. Yes, the frikkin World Cup.

This little team also might even make it to the QF. That is frikkin huge man.

And you think I won't be celebrating?

If I were in Bangladesh now, I would be out in the street yelling my head off. And I ain't a young college brat anymore.

And that's exactly what I did today not being a young college brat either! The jubilation on the streets of Dhaka were ecstatic.

:fanflag:

[al Furqaan]

(by the way, I did not agree with a lot of Shakib's decisions but guess what, he proved that he knows his shyt and I don't and I am so very happy to be wrong on so many occasions today)

me and a friend were wondering why he went with a 5-4 field while Ash and Naeem were bowling on early and that meant huge gaps existed in the field on both sides of the wicket for easy singles. we were literally screaming at our screens in disgust.

eventually i realized that Shakib was setting sucha field for the part timers (ash and naeem). but he went with a "standard" field with the specialist bowlers and then the Irish had real trouble. if you notice Ireland reached 90-3 very quickly, but then went 88-7 at a slower pace.

i still don't understand the wisdom behind that, and there might not be any except pure chance, but hey, we got the W, and thats what counts.

I also felt that he overbowled ash. Ash should have been taken out 2-3 overs before that 14 run over, which nearly killed the game. again we got the W, and by the end of the game, you could see that Shafi was just bowling without any pressure because he knew he could concede 20 for that last wicket.

[Dhakablues]

Wait, I thought if we beat West Indies and Nederlands from here, we should be in Quarter Finals, am I thinking wrong?

You are a tad bit.. If West Indies also does the same, beat Ireland, Ned, England or vice versa, we will have a tie and the NRR will be the factor. Hence, we needed to win by a big margin today. So we are not really out of the woods just yet.

[auntu]

We have nothing to celebrate. A poverty stricken country where a large chunk live below the poverty line. We have natural disasters hitting us every year. And come the ice meltdown, we might not even exist.

But we do have 150+ million proud and resilient people, except for one, who look forward instead of backwards.

We happen to feel particular joy having a cricket team that is one of the best in the world. In fact, we are in the top 8.

This same team happens to make it to something little called the World Cup. Yes, the frikkin World Cup.

This little team also might even make it to the QF. That is frikkin huge man.

And you think I won't be celebrating?

If I were in Bangladesh now, I would be out in the street yelling my head off. And I ain't a young college brat anymore.
Post of the thread Boss.
Really sums up every feelings here.

[syedmahm]

Finger crossed until we beat 2 more teams.

[jisaan]

title says it all really. Best we can hope for is to beat wi and ned (even that will be hard) and hope to have a chance at qf match. But we are not really anywhere near the quality of top 6

gthl-)

[J Mo]

Title says it all really. Best we can hope for is to beat WI and Ned (even that will be hard) and hope to have a chance at QF match. but we are not really anywhere near the quality of top 6

One step and then another and the longest walk is ended.One brick upon another and the highest wall is made.
My friend, Bangladesh may be not close to top six right now,but we are top eight team already.Who knows few years down the line where BD will be. Important thing is keep believing and fighting.That's what exactly our boys have done to defend a small total of 205.So,well done Tigers.There is indeed a reason for celebration.
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[Kana-Baba]

no offense I think only person with serious chronic constipation would not celebrate win.

[EspnBhai]

YES there's nothing to celebrate UNLESS we win the rest of all five matches ...

i'd target mainly Eng & SA, rather than WI/NED.

we should win all five and get to the final, that'd be a proper celebration for me.

[bdtiger]

DGM- Dure Giya Mor

[IanW]

This is the sort of game we used to lose - winning ugly is what champions do.

And, by WG Grace's beard, this was an ugly win.

But it was a win.

[ashraful1]

We dugged out the result, we didn't play well but still won, that's a good thing.
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[aniksh1]

Public needs to stop saying stuff on the field or talking smack and saying stuff that we cannot back up...let us quiet down and not put extra pressure on the players...otherwise they will crumble again like they did today against Ireland...and get battered like against India after saying we will repeat 2007...

[Shakil_TX]

You are a tad bit.. If West Indies also does the same, beat Ireland, Ned, England or vice versa, we will have a tie and the NRR will be the factor. Hence, we needed to win by a big margin today. So we are not really out of the woods just yet.

You are right. I must have been smoking my happy stuff a little too early in the day. However WI already lost to SA and I was already assuming they were going to loose to India and England too, and that being the case if we beat Nederlands and WI then it would be safe too say we made to the Quarter Finals. Or am I still not getting this right :doh:

Damn! Amar ganjar kolkita gelo koi? Haq Mawla!

[sar2005]

I hope you are not serious! One of the very few things that we 160 million celebrate together is our wins. I know we did not bat well but the win came from a point where it was just a matter of time for IRE to win (41 runs in last 10 overs with 4 wickets on hand). This was simply amazing!!

This is the win that forced me to reset my password after 2 years to login BC to celebrate with you all. And now you are telling not to celebrate?

PS> Please don\t tag me shuker payra! My age and life does not support to come hear and post regularly but I had my eye always on bc to read all of your discussions.

[simon]

It's disappointing cause we shld hv won it with big margin but no we were abt to loose.
But still we can celebrate cause we won from a loosing position,tht's wht makes it special & it will lift us more.

[shaad]

Look, everyone has off days, days when you're simply not in form -- you've seen batsmen have those and either play themselves in or get out. Today just happened to be a day when most of our batsmen simply didn't click. These things happen and will happen, hopefully with less frequency as our lads mature as a team. But professional teams can have such off days, and still be able to dig out a win. Our boys did -- and it shows a degree of grit and confidence which was lacking previously. I think that's certainly worth celebrating.

[metallian]

what a bad energy. have some optimism dooodee. This thread was an epic failure

[Night_wolf]

lets look at rest of our wc now..the most hyped game "india match" is over...our fara game "ireland match" is over..so now both the batting and bowling unit now can play without pressure..1st match the bowlers buckled under pressure and in the 2nd match it was the batters

[Antora]

no offense I think only person with serious chronic constipation would not celebrate win.

hahahah WTH? that was so random :P

[al Furqaan]

2 years ago, this was a game we'd lose by 6 wickets inside 40 overs.

[cricket_king]

LOL @ thread opener. Dude, I was celebrating all night even after the match. And I'm still not finished. Defending 205? We are kings.

[cricket_king]

hahahah WTH? that was so random :P

How is it 'random'? It's called exaggeration, or hyperbole. His point is clear. Any Bangladeshi fan would've celebrated this win. Duh. I'm so tired of people using the word 'random' as an adjective just for a lack of a better word. Awfully limited vocabularies.

[al-Sagar]

on the contrary I get the feeling that this team has not peaked yet, the best is yet to come ! :)

which only bodes well for the future matches of BD.

we are getting better and better .......

tamim is due a century soon.

imrul is due to play a slow but long innings which will prove effective.

nafees may get a game someday and show it was a wrong decision to keep him out of the team.

ashraful got a choto EID with ball, may be a BORO EID with bat will come soon.

Naeem and Mahmudullah may recover their lost game which they were reknowed off. playing well at 7,8.

bowling wise raj and shakib still havent bowl at their best .... ....

shafi got his dream spell yesterday and Rubel will get one soon like the one he got agaisnt NZ in the 4th ODI.

shuvo will get a chance and do something similar to what he did to Finish off NZ in the 2nd ODI.

LOTS OF THINGS WE CAN STILL DO. TODAYS WIN WILL BOOST OUR MORAL FOR THE FUTURE GAMES AND IF THINGS WHAT I MENTIONED BEFORE STARTS TO HAPPEN ... ...

[jisaan]

we are getting better and better .......

tamim is due a century soon.

imrul is due to play a slow but long innings which will prove effective.

nafees may get a game someday and show it was a wrong decision to keep him out of the team.

ashraful got a choto EID with ball, may be a BORO EID with bat will come soon.

Naeem and Mahmudullah may recover their lost game which they were reknowed off. playing well at 7,8.

bowling wise raj and shakib still havent bowl at their best .... ....

shafi got his dream spell yesterday and Rubel will get one soon like the one he got agaisnt NZ in the 4th ODI.

shuvo will get a chance and do something similar to what he did to Finish off NZ in the 2nd ODI.

LOTS OF THINGS WE CAN STILL DO. TODAYS WIN WILL BOOST OUR MORAL FOR THE FUTURE GAMES AND IF THINGS WHAT I MENTIONED BEFORE STARTS TO HAPPEN ... ...

- "great men think alike";)

[beshideshi]

We have nothing to celebrate. A poverty stricken country where a large chunk live below the poverty line. We have natural disasters hitting us every year. And come the ice meltdown, we might not even exist.

But we do have 150+ million proud and resilient people, except for one, who look forward instead of backwards.

We happen to feel particular joy having a cricket team that is one of the best in the world. In fact, we are in the top 8.

This same team happens to make it to something little called the World Cup. Yes, the frikkin World Cup.

This little team also might even make it to the QF. That is frikkin huge man.

And you think I won't be celebrating?

If I were in Bangladesh now, I would be out in the street yelling my head off. And I ain't a young college brat anymore.

Well said Zunaid bhai. We, a third world country, where a large chunk of the people live under $1 a day are the #8 team in a sport which is regarded as the second most popular in the world[based on spectators] and you some of us think we should not celebrate?
Let alone the wins, i will celebrate every single run they score, every single wicket they take!

[PoorFan]

Yes, to me Nothing to celebrate this win. It was a lucky escape for Bangladesh, and BD boys did work hard at the end indeed, but not just enough to go wild even after 11 years now. As Shakib said boys showed their character, but the reality is mostly half of that game [and many other games too] they had no character [as I see]. This 'showing character' that Shakib recently saying every after game ... needs reality check.

[6alltheway]

The way we batted the first half, no way did we deserve to celebrate even if we did win the match. Getting happy over beating ireland, a game which we almost lost, isn't the way a truly good team team would celebrate. They would be relieved.

let's stop feeling sorry for ourselfs hey, a lot of countries have natural disasters and are very poor. We shouldn't be looking for sympathy but respect. Instead of finding strength in our weaknesses, let's build on our strengths. One day I truly believe we will become a great team
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[iDumb]

The way we batted the first half, no way did we deserve to celebrate even if we did win the match. Getting happy over beating ireland, a game which we almost lost, isn't the way a truly good team team would celebrate. They would be relieved.

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Listen, don't forget that this is the world cup. In football wc, brazil celebrates goals against north korea where the level of skills in these teams have gap as big as the universe. Their fans and fans all over the world go crazy. Sure the win came against Ireland, but it should be CELEBRATED like it is a world cup win (not a win against Ireland). THe fact that the game was close adds more to the celebration.

You would have had a point if it was simply a series against ireland but it was not.

This celebration was perfect, Ash's celebration was epic and I hope we keep on doing this throughout the tournament. No where were we disrespectful to the opposition, in fact celebrating every wicket shows the greastest amount of respect we've for the irish for competing in the WC (every team in wc deserve respect for making it).

Not celebrating, "dismissing" them like we should've won anyway - is actually quiet disrespectful in my opinion.

So I really believe a lot of ppl aren't thinking - like you and that killjoy/loser Mongia.

I hope to celebrate a win with both of you in QF!

[BASSMAN]

If morning shows the day....after last game it wasnt a good one.

Ireland played quite well but Bangladeshi batsmen gifted 3 wickets atleast.

Against India, batsman batted well and bowlers were rubbish.

Against Ireland, Batsman were below average and bowlers have improved from the last game. Quite impressed with Shafiul. Good comeback. Razzak seems that he isnt in the zone anymore.

Inshahallah and I hope Bangladesh do well but they need to get their act together ASAP.

[thebest]

This is a classic Half empty - half full sitution. I am beliver and I think this was our proverbial one bad match in a series. We have successfully (however unconvincing) managed it. So sky would be the limit

[Haru-party]

You are right. I must have been smoking my happy stuff a little too early in the day. However WI already lost to SA and I was already assuming they were going to loose to India and England too, and that being the case if we beat Nederlands and WI then it would be safe too say we made to the Quarter Finals. Or am I still not getting this right :doh:

Damn! Amar ganjar kolkita gelo koi? Haq Mawla!

amra dekhi eki partyr lok vaijaan :D

[CricFreaky]

Unless we beat the WI & England ;

[EspnBhai]

Unless we beat the WI & England ;

... SA & NL as well.

no half hearted celebration, we wanna go to the final and beat India or Pakistan there!

[lamisa]

ufffffffffffffffff,we just had a bad day

[zainab]

It was not a bad day, it is in the teams DNA that they throw away their wickets when Tamim or Sakib is out, they have a batting collapse. They were lucky to win against Ireland, but it will not happen with other stronger teams. If they bat first against Ned, WI, SA or England, it has to be more than 250 runs to defend. They have to win at least 2 more matches with a good RR and hope that Ireland, Netherlands and WI gets beaten at least 3 times by huge margins.

[BANFAN]

We all know our limitations, yet expect to do better than we are perceived to be.

Why r u spoiling the party?

[6alltheway]

^ Because I am right! When we win our next game, we will be celebrating like lunatics again.

This proves what I said, Bangladesh will never learn!

[Zunaid]

When we win again, I will again be celebrating. Guess what? I love my Bangladesh cricket. It'll give me ulcers but I am realistic enough not to get a heart-attack. My love is unadulterated. Not like the fair-weather fans.

[Jadukor]

i don't consider myself to be a "fair weather" fan by any means... just wasn't ready for a typhoon that's all

[6alltheway]

This team doesnt need unconditional love. It needs it tough love. It should earn it.

This loss today has taken us 10.. 15 years back! I didnt even know this was possible. We are once again a minnow like canada, kenya, holland, namibia,

We are not even in the same league as West Indies!

The mentality of our players NEEDS to change. I dont know who is responsible for that but If i was in charge, boy I would make these players work, mentally!

[lamisa]

ami ki nijer chul chhirbo naki amader playerder chul chhirbo,bujhte partesina...

[Night_wolf]

When we win again, I will again be celebrating. Guess what? I love my Bangladesh cricket. It'll give me ulcers but I am realistic enough not to get a heart-attack. My love is unadulterated. Not like the fair-weather fans.

i wish i had half the enthusiasm u have..u sir just earn my respect a lot with this post..

my believe is hart but yes i'll still keep following Bangladesh cricket and celebrate when we win...i hope i can keep my patience when dark hours come..just like today

[sar2005]

^ Because I am right! When we win our next game, we will be celebrating like lunatics again.

This proves what I said, Bangladesh will never learn!

Dude, old saying! There is only half a glass of water. Some see it half empty and get frustrated. Some other think that there is half a glass to satisfy thrust and hope for the remaining to fill-up and enjoy! I prefer second type and yes, when BD will win next time, I will go nutz again.

Will they win again? Yes, they will and I believe!

[mali007]

I will be happy if we beat Netherland. Don't think about beating SA or ENG.

[sar2005]

I hope you can celebrate now!

Dude, old saying! There is only half a glass of water. Some see it half empty and get frustrated. Some other think that there is half a glass to satisfy thrust and hope for the remaining to fill-up and enjoy! I prefer second type and yes, when BD will win next time, I will go nutz again.

Will they win again? Yes, they will and I believe!