Match Thread: Bangladesh v Nepal at Chittagong : 6th Match, First Round Group A: Mar 18, 2014 (19:30 local | 13:30 GMT | 09:30 EDT | 08:30 CDT)

[Night_wolf]

Originally Posted by shuziburo
I will be supporting Nepal and abandon AFG among the Associates from now on.

They won my admiration today...

defo supporting nepal, the became the side to cheer for me. love shakti's celebrations!

[Tiger444]

Originally Posted by Sohel
I like AAH a lot. Met him. Wonderfully innocent and unpretentious fellow devoid of any kind of complex. That rare humility and modesty that make confidence a thing of beauty. Lovely young man. I'd be proud to call him my son.

Ya he seems like a good kid. Hope he continues to do well for us

[Tiger-ess]

Shakib is a class player but really could do without these bursts of foolish behavior

[shuziburo]

Nepal captain very articulate...

[SS]

jitsi bhai ...aeita onek 1 run na nia choi maira jitte chaise...jani eita karap lagse but ki ar korar amago playeder mora bhab dekle mejaj karap lage...some of the fieldings they seemed to be very relaxed and not trying 100%...aggression nai jeita chilo afg match e..may be that's why he did it..

Very good game by Nepal...Kudos to them

[shuziburo]

Originally Posted by Sohel
I like AAH a lot. Met him. Wonderfully innocent and unpretentious fellow devoid of any kind of complex. That rare humility and modesty that make confidence a thing of beauty. Lovely young man. I'd be proud to call him my son.

You sound like an old man.

[Alvi]

A lot of attitude from Shak. From this last ball episode to the banana peel. Hopefully he backs it up against the big boys.

[Hawk-Eye]

Jacob Daniel: "What Shakib has done is increased the run rate after securing the win...plus the entertainment value...so I can understand what he has done."

[Equinox]

That bail has left a mark under Mushy's eye.

[ialbd]

From CI:

Pudota: "That's childish from Shakib. As a professional cricketer, he has to show that he is above such simple things as refusing to take winning run to hit a six next ball. He could have been out trying to do that."

and I agree...

on top of that as many pointed out, its disrespecting the opponent, just like we used to do in goli cricket.... 'winning run, ball haray chharbo... or ball fatay chharbo... or drain e falay chharbo...'

[Hawk-Eye]

From CI:

Rohit : "Give him [Shakib] a break. Its just a warm-up game. What use is it if you don't actually flex your muscles a bit. Its called warm-up for a reason, I believe."

[Tiger444]

Originally Posted by Hawk-Eye
From CI:

Rohit : "Give him [Shakib] a break. Its just a warm-up game. What use is it if you don't actually flex your muscles a bit. Its called warm-up for a reason, I believe."

I agree with Rohit here. People are looking way too much in to it imo

[mufi_02]

Originally Posted by Tiger444
I agree with Rohit here. People are looking way too much in to it imo

exactly with so many balls and wickets left, he just refused 1 single. it wasn't like he wasted an entire over trying to slog. let him play the way he wants.

[naim519]

TERRIBLE TERRIBLE bowling and fielding today!!! If it was any other top 8 ranked team, we would have been finished

[Navo]

If Anamul was around and hadn't gotten runout foolishly, maybe we would have still finished the game in the 16th over.

Who knows, Run Rate might be important. As someone else said, Shakib's batting will come under even more scrutiny in the next round.

In any case, the high SR and the not outs will do a lot of good to Shakib's T20I batting average :p

[Night_wolf]

Originally Posted by mufi_02
exactly with so many balls and wickets left, he just refused 1 single. it wasn't like he wasted an entire over trying to slog. let him play the way he wants.

that was not professional, professional athletics dont do this, he could have got out trying to hit a 6

[tiger_army]

brothers, afridi/gayle korle koito dekso ki confident, r only shakib korle sob dosh... bechara shakib, 6 mairau public er gali khai...

[Habib]

Originally Posted by ialbd
From CI:

Pudota: "That's childish from Shakib. As a professional cricketer, he has to show that he is above such simple things as refusing to take winning run to hit a six next ball. He could have been out trying to do that."

and I agree...

on top of that as many pointed out, its disrespecting the opponent, just like we used to do in goli cricket.... 'winning run, ball haray chharbo... or ball fatay chharbo... or drain e falay chharbo...'

Lol what's next? Playing out a maiden over intentionally just to show respect towards the opponent? I am proud of what Shakib did. Ending with a 6 second time in a row was very important for a morale boost which we badly need.

[Tiger444]

Originally Posted by Night_wolf
that was not professional, professional athletics dont do this, he could have got out trying to hit a 6

If our players are not confident of hitting sixes against Nepal then we should stop playing.

Again we're looking way too much in to, not a big deal. This is just a game in the end. People really need to stop being so sensitive about this "showing respect"

I wouldn't have cared if India or Pakistan did it to us

[Shehwar]

Enjoyed our batting!

[mij]

Originally Posted by Equinox
That bail has left a mark under Mushy's eye.

It was the ball not the bail

[al Furqaan]

Originally Posted by RazabQ
And that is how you take care of bidiness. End two matches in a row with 6ers

Exactly. A little attitude never hurt anyone. We have all these Riyad type sissies amongst us boo-hooing when Afghan players show a bit of bravado and criticizing Shak for tonking a 6. Sissy fans need to trade their thongs for some boxer briefs.

[mufi_02]

Originally Posted by Night_wolf
that was not professional, professional athletics dont do this, he could have got out trying to hit a 6

but he didn't got out. that shows how much self-confidence he has. dude he just refused only one single. and we all know shakib is little arrogant but he backs up that arrogance. we have lot of gentle players i.e rahim, mominul, riyad etc...someone needs to be badass

[mij]

How we going to develop our bowling. I still feel we need to be better on bowling

[mij]

We should try to finish off with 6 every match of can.