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Old August 16, 2009, 12:02 PM
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Default System Analysis: Debugging Issues

It's not a negative thread; rather this is to discuss and highlight the glaring mistakes that persists in our team. Try to list all the lessons that are learned at the end of the day after every matches.

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Bangladesh in Zimbabwe ODI Series - 4th ODI
ODI no. 2873 | 2009 season
Played at Queens Sports Club, Bulawayo
16 August 2009 (50-over match)


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7.2 Mahbubul Alam to Coventry, 2 runs, dropped, beautiful shot but too well timed, overpitched on middle, picked it superbly, clipping it straight to deep square leg where Rasel makes a complete mess of it, how costly will that prove? They dropped Chigumbura twice yesterday
This can easily be the pivotal element of the whole game. Thus, when we go to play the cavaliars of cricket like Pakistan and India we can't afford to have this sort of mistakes.

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43.2 Shakib Al Hasan to Coventry, 2 runs, dropped, Mahmudullah the culprit, tried to sweep it hard through square, got the top edge and it sailed down to deep square leg, the fielder had all the time in the world to get into position but spilled it just when it seemed he was in control of it, another life for the centurion
This one I didn't witness firsthand, but shows the sloppiness of our fielding needs to be worked upon; inexcusable against G8 teams.

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Coventry was dropped twice during his innings, both simple chances, and the visitors have learnt little from their lapses in the previous game.
Goes on to show the butterfly effect of the incidences leading to his chaotic whirlwind of batting display of Coventry from Shakib's over.

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45.1 Shakib Al Hasan to Chigumbura, FOUR, Chigumbura continues the good work, short outside off, makes way and swats it through cover for a boundary

45.3 Shakib Al Hasan to Coventry, SIX, Coventry's in a destructive mood now, flighted on middle, got into the perfect position to execute the slog-sweep, got it off the middle, sailed over deep midwicket

45.4 Shakib Al Hasan to Coventry, SIX, another one, can he break Saeed Anwar's record? Another slog-sweep, didn't quite get hold of it, got a bit of a top edge there but had enough bat on it to clear deep midwicket once again

45.5 Shakib Al Hasan to Coventry, FOUR, carnage, the change of angle proves useless for Shakib, over the wicket, bowled full on middle and off, swung away, this time just one bounce, to the deep midwicket boundary, three hits in the same region
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9.4 Masakadza to Junaid Siddique, OUT, gone, Williams takes a sharp one at point, short and wide, goes for the cut, fails to keep it down and Williams tries to hold on to it over his head, it slips out and he juggles on a couple of occasions to snap it in the end, held his nerve there

Junaid Siddique c Williams b Masakadza 38 (48m 27b 5x4 0x6) SR: 140.74
Junaid again failed to support his partner in batting putting unduly pressure of early wickets in the team setting up an all too familiar pattern. We need to have an opener that can put a solid start and play in cahoots with Tamim.

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37.6 Utseya to Tamim Iqbal, 1 run, dropped, Chigumbura the man in the hot seat. Perhaps a decisive moment as Tamim charges down the track to clear long-off but doesn't get hold of it, takes forever to come down and Chigumbura, though positioned perfectly, misjudged it at the last moment as it fell behind him
And Tamim getting out right after Powerplay shows that we still cannot exploit the advantages of PP instead use it to shoot on our feet. This is starting to become a common paradigm.

4 SiXES came down the on side from Coventary.

Good news: 55 runs came off the last 5 overs.
Bad news: 55 runs came off the last 5 overs from a team like Zimbabwe. Imagine the slaughtering we will face against tougher oppositions on this ground.


Bottom line: We need to do major repair to our fielding and bowling infrastructure. If a team whose test status is flickering against blizzards of criticism can produce a player who is capable of scoring 194*, it sure sounds ominous for us to play the top 8 teams.
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I didn't have the privelege to watch Coventry's braie party and I am looking forward for others to fill in the rest of the dangerous mistakes we have made during fielding that could have easily cost us this win if not as a stepping stone to series loss.

Cricket is a simple game. Dispatch away the bad balls in the first 10 overs during the PP without losing any wickets, rotate strike in the middle overs preserving wickets, leave the last PP as icing on the cake for appropriate time and finish it off elegantly if need be in T20 mode. Same script over and over again can be applied like a boilerplate template. Bangladesh has managed to learn this simple theory on paper and applied it in real life but still the team is riddled with many basic flaws that need to be rectified for instance despite early breakthroughs in the last two matches they couldn't capitalize on it thus breaking their rhythm.

This is not an end, but a beginning of a real saga across Trail of Tears.
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