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Old February 4, 2018, 05:31 PM
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Originally Posted by al Furqaan
Why would I have to think things that have already happened?

Colombo Test was as flat as this one (BD first innings score 467 vs 513 here) and Fizz and Miraz picked the most wickets there. Taijul chipped in as well. Shakib must have gotten a couple here and there. But Fizz actually bowled the match winning spell. Do you think its possible the sun may rise from the east tomorrow?

Fizz and Miraz both had a number of regulation catches put down off their bowling. Everyone has forgotten that. Riyad is correct in his assessment, this was not that flat a surface. Poor fielding by both teams (BD dropped at least 4 catches, SL leaked 7-10 boundaries that should have been singles) and good batting (BD mostly) is what yielded 1500 runs for 24 wickets that everyone is talking about. A good number of balls spun and bounced sharply and overall it somewhat sporting in the final 2 days.
2 decent bowlers and an alright one (Taijul) is a lot diff than 3 decent bowlers and an alright one. So, we're just randomly supposed to ignore Shakib's couple of wickets here and there and holding down one end?

Last graf reads like one of your assessments of Taskin.
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