Win / Loss more likely than a draw
Bangladesh scored 91/2 in 30.3 overs requiring 139 runs to win in 40.3 overs with 8 wickets in hand.
Hannan Sarkar and Mohammad Ashraful are at the crease. Yesterday's hero Javed Omar and Habibul Bashar are the men out. The required run rate is around 3.3 / 3.5 and Bangladesh run rate is over 3.
My opinion is it is easier for the players - Hannan, Ashraful, Sanwar, Kapali, Pilot, Sujon, Rafique to go for the runs rather than survival. If Javed Omar and Habibul Bashar were there at the crease batting till the end of the day and were told to stay at the crease for the whole day (then it would have been possible), then a draw would have been more likely.
But not with the youngsters. They just don't have the patience to spend a whole day batting individually.
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