Match Thread: Bangladesh vs Sri Lanka, 1st T20I at Chittagong Feb 12, 2014 (BD Time: 5:00pm)

[MustaphaAli]

Shak always has a carefree attitude
If it pays off, he's a hero
If it don't, he's the scapegoat.
He probably doesn't have the brain cells to be circumspect at the right time.
If he had mushfiqs brain WHEN at the crease and only at the crease, he'd be a much better player.

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[mehedi]

in absence of Mushfique experienced players like Tamim, Sakib or Nasir needed to play a longer innings and lead the run chase but instead they played without any responsibility and threw their wickets away at the wrong time. feeling bad but happy the way Anamul batted and fought till the last minute, hope he continues to play like this. Good luck for the next match which i think will be hundred times harder knowing the fact that Sri-lankan batsmens dont repeat their mistakes very often.

[RazabQ]

When you are bowling against BD at death, bowl those fulltosses - unless you hit em in the chest or head, gutless umpires ain't gonna call it!

[Hasan2k8]

Starting to hate Lnakans,not cause they won.its their attitude. way they acted this match was poor especially in the end they pressurized the umpires. only captain should go and ask umpires, but, whole lanka went all over the umpires. It's was their tactis

[Hasan2k8]

BTW did BD play home or way? what's with the so many away fans in the stadium??? at times it felt away. should only allow certain amount of away fans.

[shuziburo]

Mash needs to finish his over early. He has not been a good death bowler as of late.

[shuziburo]

The batsmen should be instructed to complain to the umpires for delay tactics.

[Hasan2k8]

Shabbir Rahman is very gutsy batsmen like anamul, for me he has to be in the lower order. boy can hit them confidently well.Why they picked both mithun and reza same team??? rubbish decision. Reza is nothing guys trsut, reza reminds me of some of BD failurs of 2000-2006 era. when reza was batting, I didnt have any feeling he would hit a boundery or two....


moving on


next match......
I feelour players are bit soft on opponents, I hope tamim does some damages to the lanakans next match and hits the ball as if he is hitting sanga!! we need mortaza charged up.....bowling with aggressive Tiger's go hard at them.

[shuziburo]

Mash should have come after Nasir. He is a batsman who can start hitting from get-go.

[shuziburo]

If the keeper is too close to the wkt, the batsmen need to come very close to him a couple of times during the follow through, without hitting him. If the other team is going to try stuff, we might as well.

[nsuRocks]

Shakib, Rubel and Arafat bowled exceptionally well. Tamim played well but got out to a lazy looking shot. Either Shakib or Nasir should have stayed there till the end but the pressure was building and 168 was always a big chase. Gazi was dissapointing and like I said before probably should not be tried in T20 ( had to play him
because of Razzaks unavailability I guess). Mushfiqs batting was missed. New players were having a tough time reading Ajanta which Mominul did with ease. But we do need a keeper in the long run since I'm guessing Mushfiqs keeping days are over and should be utilized as a test batsman only and may keep in shorter formats. Don't believe Farhad Reza deserved that much criticism but maybe Mahmudullah looks better than him and Reza atm.

[Tipu606]

Originally Posted by Maysun
Gazi should have come in before Reza

my question is also why Farhad Reza was sent in to bat at the crucial stage? they should have sent a hard hitter and a better batsman like Shohag Gazi to finish the game in style.

[SMHasan]

Taking Reza and Mithun in the same team was a blunder of a decision. Don't really understand how can you drop a player who just scored a century and fifty in consecutive innings in tests? I know its a different format, still. He played somem decent innings recently in t20. Pathetic selection.

[kalpurush]

Originally Posted by RazabQ
When you are bowling against BD at death, bowl those fulltosses - unless you hit em in the chest or head, gutless umpires ain't gonna call it!

You have said it Razab bhai! How on earth the third umpire didn`t call it a no ball I still can`t get it!! Let alone the on field umpires!!!

[Zeeshan]

This is a hall of fame match thread. HAHA

[nsuRocks]

Originally Posted by RazabQ
When you are bowling against BD at death, bowl those fulltosses - unless you hit em in the chest or head, gutless umpires ain't gonna call it!

Rubel should learn from this lol

[Hasan2k8]

Gotta say the number 5,6,7 batting order has to be the weakest BD had today in ages.

[Zeeshan]

Originally Posted by BD_TigerZ
Bloody link froze

Post of the day. This really made me smile.

[Hasan2k8]

Excellent innings from Anamul under allot of pressure. he tried his best. Welldone

[ononto]

Originally Posted by shuziburo
Mash needs to finish his over early. He has not been a good death bowler as of late.

I can't remember mash being good death bowler ever...but hey, it's a t20 match...neither gazi nor mash should be a scapegoat...

[ononto]

Originally Posted by SMHasan
Taking Reza and Mithun in the same team was a blunder of a decision. Don't really understand how can you drop a player who just scored a century and fifty in consecutive innings in tests? I know its a different format, still. He played somem decent innings recently in t20. Pathetic selection.

Second that...

[ononto]

Originally Posted by shuziburo
If the keeper is too close to the wkt, the batsmen need to come very close to him a couple of times during the follow through, without hitting him. If the other team is going to try stuff, we might as well.

Absolutely... Same goes with silly point fielders... You gotta be agressive in your approach if not the body language to shy away those closing fielder tactics... For Sanga's bullying tactics to Tamim - I guess tamim knew Sanga was just lowering himself down... For a player like his caliber it's just unfortunate ...

[Fazal]

Even though Anmaul scored the highest and thries his best at the end, but do you think he wasted too many balls upto his 2/3 of his innings caused his SR to pretty ordinary SR 128?

The target was 168 and with a SR of 128 it would have given us 154 runs. As a set batsman, shouldn't he be more agressive a little earlier. Nasir, Sakib, Mithun all sacrified and got out to address the ever growing RRR.

[nsuRocks]

Originally Posted by Fazal
Even though Anmaul scored the highest and thries his best at the end, but do you think he wasted too many balls upto his 2/3 of his innings caused his SR to pretty ordinary SR 128?

The target was 168 and with a SR of 128 it would have given us 154 runs. As a set batsman, shouldn't he be more agressive a little earlier. Nasir, Sakib, Mithun all sacrir ified and got out to address the ever growing RRR.

U have a point but he was making a comeback after being dumped from test cricket ( which he isn't ready for yet IMHO) and someone needed to stay till the end. Losing Shakib and Nasir slowed the chase more. I think his pace was ok, rather Nasir and whatshisname at 7 were unable to keep the strike rotating. Both Shamsur and Tamim need to learn to take singles

[nsuRocks]

Think the qualifying round in the T20 WC will actually help Bd since its the lack of T20 match practice that is turning out as a bug impediment when chasing