Match Thread: BD A Vs ENG A : First Unofficial Test match 22-25 February 2007

[Miraz]

Dates: 22-25 Feb 2007
Venue: Mirpur Sher E Bangla National Stadium
Weather: Forcast for Dhaka

Squads:
Bangladesh A (from): Tushar Imran (captain), Sagir Hossain (wicketkeeper), Mehrab Hossain, Jahirul Islam, Nasiruddin Faruque, Marshall Ayub, Nadif Chowdhury, Enamul Haque, Dollar Mahmud, Mohammad Sharif, Ziaur Rahman, Mosharraf Hossain, Nazmul Hossain.

England A (from): Michael Yardy (captain), Stuart Broad, Michael Carberry, Nick Compton, Steven Davies, Will Jefferson, Alex Gidman, James Kirtley, Alex Loudon, Graham Onions, Matthew Prior, Adil Rashid, Tom Smith and Tim Bresnan.

Links for Scorecards:
CricketArchive | Cricinfo | ECB | TigerCricket | BBC Sport

[sadi]

Here is my eleven:

Mehrab jr
Jahirul Islam
Nasiruddin Faruque
Tushar Imran
Nadif Chowdhury
Marshall Ayub
Sagir Hossain (wk)
Mohammad Sharif
Dollar Mahmud
Mosharraf Hossain
Enamul Haque

[Murad]

Originally Posted by sadi
Here is my eleven:

Mehrab jr
Jahirul Islam
Nasiruddin Faruque
Tushar Imran
Nadif Chowdhury
Marshall Ayub
Sagir Hossain (wk)
Mohammad Sharif
Dollar Mahmud
Mosharraf Hossain
Enamul Haque

nice selection...

[cricman]

I thought Pilot was going to play as Wicket Keeper?

[Farhad]

Pilot turned it down......Any news on live updates?

[Kabir]

Originally Posted by cricman
I thought Pilot was going to play as Wicket Keeper?

To answer your question on a temporal basis:

Step 1: Pilot turns down offer

Originally Posted by TheWatcher
Pilot declined to play for the A-team stating he is not "mentally prepared" to play at this point.

-bdnews24

Good news for the young wicket keepers such as Dhiman (made an unbeaten century ) and Golam Mabud (scored 63 runs) who are doing well in NCL. Or the selectors still want to go with Saghir ?

Step 2: Sagir makes use of the opportunity

Originally Posted by Miraz
England A Vs BCB National Academy
England A327/4 (dec) Over -91; Compton 152*, Prior 82*, Jefferson 58; Riyad 2/42
BCB National Academy326/10 Over -86.4; Nadif 74, Sagir 70, Nasiruddin 58; Broad 3/99, Bresnan 2/23, Yardy 2/46
End of day two

Step 3: Sagir competes with Dhiman

Originally Posted by Miraz
After Pilot's refusal to play for A team, Sagir is making a good fight for the place. Nice competition going on between Sagir and Dhiman.

Step 4: Sagir kills hopes for Dhiman

Originally Posted by TheWatcher
Even yesterday I thought Dhiman had a chance, but today Saghir pretty much destroyed it. Dhiman's century against a depleted Rajshahi attack (without Shahzada and Suhrawadi) obviously does not carry that much weight as Saghir's seventy against English bowlers with international experience.

Step 5: Sagir makes it to the A-team

Originally Posted by Miraz
According to Amar Desh, Sagir got the nod to keep wicket for the A team.

Phew.

[Bugz]

ECB seem to be offering regular updates.

[sadi]

Here is the link from ECB website which is covering the game.

ECB

[Farhad]

Thanks guys......Match should be starting anytime now.....No worry of rain btw, sunny skies according to the forecast

[shujan]

How come tigercricket or cricket.org is not giving ball by ball update?

[Bugz]

Bangla A- 17/2

Tiger Cricket.

[Farhad]

Thats terrible! Any idea on whos out?

[Farhad]

30/2 off 13

[Farhad]

Mehrabs out for 4 apparently

[cricketboy]

Mehrab abar flop. He scored only 4.

[Farhad]

30/3 off 13

[Farhad]

Nasiruddin out for 14

[RazabQ]

3 wickets down already they couldn't even weather the opening spell!

[Farhad]

These guys might do even worse than the Academy team!

[Farhad]

40/3

[Farhad]

43/4.....just great!

[Farhad]

i give up on these guys!

[cricketboy]

I hope TI is still there. It seems these stupids will not even score 200.

[AsifTheManRahman]

dhuttari. dukkho bedonar bepar shepar.

[babubangla]

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