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Old February 4, 2010, 07:31 AM
zainab zainab is offline
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Originally Posted by yaseer
We should have had practice matches. That is a valid question. BCB is to blame here.

But not playing enough T20 does not have relation with yesterday's disaster. No team is playing T20 regularly and also no team wants to play this format regularly in international arena. We also had a domestic T20 league. So, we must have some clue how to play this format. Players had no clue whatsoever.
They played against their own teams on their own turf. This is a different ball game, playing against older matured cricketers who are playing on their own turf. NZ is a matured, well balanced team, look at their average age, compared to BD's cricketers age. They also have a very lucrative 20/20 competition and did exceedingly well in the recent Champions Trophy, they know how to put the screws on and win games. Is BD playing any kind of 20/20 competition to warrant a place in the Champions Trophy?

Also, they knew the weakness of the BD players, they just cannot play the rising ball and their height do no not help, so eventually, the trap was set and the boys fell into it.
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