Match Thread: Real Cricket, Bangladesh vs New Zealand 1st Test, Chittagong Divisional Stadium, Friday 17 October 2008

[Antora]

Good luck Bangladesh!!!!!

[cricket_fanatic]

1st Test Prediction

Wishful thinking (From Heart): A BD win

Pragmatic expectation (From Head): BD 162 & 252, NZ 429, Match finished before tea on 3rd day.

[nasimul]

Waiting for another innings defeat

[Rabz]

Yay!
We palay test status!

We win ze match, me iz barry haapy.

[auntu]

Originally Posted by Rabz
Yay!
We palay test status!

We win ze match, me iz barry haapy.

me iz havy happy 2

[Tigers_eye]

Originally Posted by cricman
... Just gotta keep grinding away. I don't care if we bat 200 overs @ 2. Put your head down and Build and Rebuild.

I am certain even Shane Warne, Sir Hadlee, Imran Khan, Malcom Marshall anybody and every body would bowl some lose deliveries after bowling 30 overs a day two days in a row. Put your head down don't worry over the score or run rate in the first innings. Occupy one side of the crease and ask your partner to do the same. This is batting pitch for crying out loud. One ball at a time. This instruction is meant for impatient Shakib.

[Nocturnal]

৫ দিনের টানা গরমে কিউইদের খালি মাঠে রাখতে পারলেই কেল্লাফতে. কিন্তু হায়! ম্যাচ ৩য় দিন বিকালেই শেষ হয়ে যাবে. আফসোস!!

[Green Tea]

Vettori ready to lead bowling attack

Daniel Vettori, the New Zealand captain, has said he is ready for the challenge of leading the bowling attack on the spin-friendly Chittagong track when his side takes on Bangladesh in the first Test starting Friday.
On New Zealand's 2004-05 tour of Bangladesh, Vettori picked up 20 wickets in two Tests, including 12 at Chittagong's MA Aziz Stadium. However, this tour's first Test will be played at the Divisional Stadium, which took over hosting duties from 2006.
"That was a different ground, but we know spinners would bowl more overs in such conditions, so Jeetan [Patel] and I will be ready," Vettori said. New Zealand have had a chance to get familiar with the pitch at the Divisional Stadium when they clinched the one-day series 2-1 with a 79-run win in third match.
Read more from cricinfo.

[Razi]

Originally Posted by cricman
To Answer Nafi's question ... Fatullah was the Last Test that went 5 days, Actually The Chittagong Test After that Went 5 Days as Well (Rain Induced) and Prior to that probably was Nafis Iqbals 5th Day Century vs Zimbabwe. We took West Indies, England and Pakistan to 5th Days As well.

I expect Biggies from the Top Order, I'd be very disappointed After seeing some of the Tactics used in the ODI's not being used in the Tests . Just gotta keep grinding away. I don't care if we bat 200 overs @ 2. Put your head down and Build and Rebuild

Ashoka is gonna be under the gun.

You are spot on cricman bhai, I think the way Ash and few others played in the 2nd ODI gives me some hope that they can stay for longer period of time in the crease. But then again, when it comes to tests our players try to be in the twenty20 mood. So, I just hope this time it doesn't happen and they correct themselves.

[Rabz]

Originally Posted by nocturnal
৫ দিনের টানা গরমে কিউইদের খালি মাঠে রাখতে পারলেই কেল্লাফতে. কিন্তু হায়! ম্যাচ ৩য় দিন বিকালেই শেষ হয়ে যাবে. আফসোস!!

হাসা কতা কইছেন ভাই ।
আল্লার দোহাই লাগে, যেন ঠাডা পড়া গরম পরে

[Tigers_eye]

Originally Posted by Rabz
হাসা কতা কইছেন ভাই ।
আল্লার দোহাই লাগে, যেন ঠাডা পড়া গরম পরে

I am thinking to donate some money to buy heaters for the visitor's locker room with no switch to turn off. match hari ba jiti doesn't matter. kiwi roast should be deliciouso.

[Nocturnal]

Originally Posted by Rabz
হাসা কতা কইছেন ভাই ।
আল্লার দোহাই লাগে, যেন ঠাডা পড়া গরম পরে

আমেন!

[bujhee kom]

chittagong-e mosha nai? kiwie-der mosha kamraile to hoi! maleria(spell) hobe! tarpor test-e here jabe....

[Rabz]

Originally Posted by Tigers_eye
I am thinking to donate some money to buy heaters for the visitor's locker room with no switch to turn off. match hari ba jiti doesn't matter. kiwi roast should be deliciouso.

Originally Posted by Nocturnal
আমেন!

Dont worry guys ( Noc bhai would know about it), load-shedding is back.
We dont need to buy heaters, just tell the PDB to turn off the supply for a while...
That would do the trick.

[wiseshah]

Bd harbe that is 200% sure. wish a sommanjonok porajoy. Bd er upor ar kono vorosha nai. hope they will be able to make 200 runs.

[Green Tea]

Nayeem becoming 51st Test player
Nayeem Islam is all set to make his Test debut in the first of a two-match series against New Zea-land at the Chi-ttagong Divisional Stadium from October 17.The right-handed batsman who made his one-day international debut in the three-match series against the Black Caps, will become the 51st Test match player for the Tigerg.Nayeem proved his mettle with three good showing with the ball in hand and although he was run out without facing a single delivery in his first innings, he batted well enough in the final ODI
............
Nayeem, who played the under-19 World Cup in 2004, have been in good form for the last two seasons and his time in the GP-BCB National Cricket Academy and the Bangladesh A team has admittedly helped him make a calm beginning.Primarily a middle-order batsman, Nayeem's useful contribution with the ball has given him the place of a spinning all-rounder as well.
...........
Rajshahi captain Khaled Mashud backed Nayeem, saying that the inclusion is of a solid player."He has the quality of playing in the longer-version and he deserves to play for Bangladesh given his domestic performance," said Mashud who announced his retirement from international cricket this month.The former national captain also praised his bowling abilities: "I think he is a rare breed among offspinners because he can read a batsman and not just bowl off-break for the sake of bowling."
Read the full article from Daily star.

[bangla-red]

Naeem's ODI innings suggests that he might be a good testie. GO BD.

[bujhee kom]

nasif bhai (green tea), is it confirmed? nayeem's debut in the test?
sorry i spelled your name wrong bro! corrected it now...

[Green Tea]

Originally Posted by bujhee kom
nafis bhai (green tea), is it confirmed? nayeem's debut in the test?

Nayeem played a solid innings in the 3rd ODI. So it looks like to me that it is confirmed.

[Rommel]

So our lineup should look like this:

1. Tamim Iqbal
2. Junaid Siddique
3. Mushfiqur Rahim
4. Mohammad Ashraful
5. Shakib Al Hasan
6. Nayeem Islam
7. Mehrab Hossain Jr.
8. Mashrafe Mortaza
9. Abdur Razzak
10. Shahadat Hossain
11. Syed Rasel

Our batting would be very deep. We could bat down to #9. Also we have 3 pacers and 3 spinners with this team.
Pacers: Mashrafe Mortaza, Shahadat Hossain, and Syed Rasel
Spinners: Abdur Razzak, Shakib Al-Hasan, and Nayeem Islam

[bujhee kom]

Originally Posted by ro1249
So our lineup should look like this:

1. Tamim Iqbal
2. Junaid Siddique
3. Mushfiqur Rahim
4. Mohammad Ashraful
5. Shakib Al Hasan
6. Nayeem Islam
7. Mehrab Hossain Jr.
8. Mashrafe Mortaza
9. Abdur Razzak
10. Shahadat Hossain
11. Syed Rasel

Our batting would be very deep. We could bat down to #9. Also we have 3 pacers and 3 spinners with this team.
Pacers: Mashrafe Mortaza, Shahadat Hossain, and Syed Rasel
Spinners: Abdur Razzak, Shakib Al-Hasan, and Nayeem Islam

agree ro bhai.
also ash and mehrab can spin too! so, that's good! if for any reason they (the selectors) choose to give robin a go and he replaces rasel then just like you said, we will have 3 pacers, 3 spinners + ash and mehrab (spin)
and then we can bat real deep, down to 10th person as robin bats well, better than our rasel!
best of luck to all of them!

[Green Tea]

Today Prothom alo published a interview with Nayeem.
Read the full story here.

[bujhee kom]

thank you nasif bhai! that was a good read! i agree with nayeem regarding the NZ! it's the same team! we got worse, they didn't get better! we can get'em...we have got to get over the fear and the feeling of crumbling under pressure!

[knocked_up]

tell us what you want from the 1st Test:

a 100% team effort, giving 100% on 3 dep.
a 100 from ...most likely Ash
3 50's
no individual bowlin performance but keeping NZ from scoring big, plus if we post a big total batting 1st, then help us get a good lead

and no dro catches, not appealing for run outs

[rashed411]

i think raqibul would have been a good choice for the test matches...he is a great fielder too. i really want to see his performance in a test match.