Bangladesh Tour of Zimbabwe, Jul 30 - Aug 10 202

[Night_wolf]

Lol I want to see papon's face right now

[Zeeshan]

Trigger Warning: Incoming Rant

One thing is for sure, we suck at belters. You give make the wicket flat the slighest, and suddenly our boys have 'himshim' when it comes to scoring big. In international cricket and tournament where pitches will be very similar to this condition, your dumb Siddonesque 240-Mirpur s** ain't gon cut it. You regularly need to score 320-350 if not more to stamp your dominance.

Thank GOD that Shamim Chowdhury is out of commentary. His little mantra of "You just hit a six, why would you hit another six again?" did YEARS and years of irreparable damage to our psyche. Athar Ali Khan used to be like that but he still has that dumb cultural mentality of "You just hit a boundary on the first ball, why would you hit that again?" Of course, he says it when a wicket falls, but should another boundary result he would be praising it. Yeah keep having that dumb cultural mentality that scoring consecutive boundaries is some kind of taboo... you will go far in this sport. Heh.

Only in our dumb culture we somehow conflate and associate hitting big shots with arrogance and laziness and wax dumb paeans on RBW (running between the wickets). As if one must clench their anus and grit their teeth... or else the players' commitment is in question since they are lazy.

FFS. It's cricket man. What kind of mentality is that? That hard hitting is some kind of sin and taboo.

Also, Siddons probably is the WORST batting coach ever. All of your sound techniques and solid textbook batting shots of matikamrano straight drives down long on or coverdrive ain't gon win you matches. You know what does though? Destructive mentality, tenacity and aggressive mindset in international arena. We are not talking Domestic Leagues and Bangladesh A team games year where 'cutesy' shots win you matches defending low totals.

This is why I HATE watching our batters play. Unlike India and England, we don't know how to play fearless, destructive cricket. Let alone entertain.

[Zeeshan]

Just saw this headline. Dinesh Kartik makes 41 off 19. What a contrast!!

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qhUOIONPEa8

You HAVE to give the players the freedom to play their shots instead of criticizing every damn delivery with microanalysis. By 'you' I mean the think tank and management.

I bet, very few of you know that Tamim was given that carte blanche in his World Cup debut. I think he asked his uncle or think tank that "Oh I didn't do well, I may be dropped" in 2007 and then some guy said: "Don't worry. You will play all the matches no matter what. You are in." - or something like that.

When you have THAT kind of backing and foundation and freedom, it's no secret you will have the CONFIDENCE to get away with murder and play your own innings regardless. Duh.

[Eshen]

[godzilla]

Forget about BD, zim played magnificenty. Raza is in the form of his life... No shame in loosing like this.

[wasi90lkv1]

Batting let the team down. They needed to score 330-340.

Pitch was very flat. 290-300 is nothing on this pitch.

[Shingara]

Originally Posted by Night_wolf
Hahaha I am loving people predicting Tamim's final score with price of different products in BD price of everything has gone outside the reach of middle class. For the first time in my life I am regretting coming back to BD

I am glad it has happened as BD is getting a reality check. Everyone in BD has this attitude these days that they are from a 1st world country. People spend money and show off, when in reality, they are from a 3rd world country.


This nobabi of eating in restaurants everyday, having sehri and iftar in restaurants, having dawats in restaurants was over the top.


Someone even tried telling me that the standard of office work in BD is superior than in England! Effin idiots.

[Shingara]

This Zim tour will leave the players scarred. This will reflect in our performance in Asia cup. It seems Zimbos are no longer punching bags we can use to get our players back to a winning mindset. BCB will need to find a new punching bag!

[BookFinder]

Originally Posted by Shingara

Someone even tried telling me that the standard of office work in BD is superior than in England! Effin idiots.

Idk about office work, but I can tell you houses/flats in BD is far superior to average homes in many western countries.

[NoName]

Lmao, we really need Shakib to avoid losing to Zim now

[Zeeshan]

Originally Posted by godzilla
Forget about BD, zim played magnificenty. Raza is in the form of his life... No shame in loosing like this.

Good point. Congratulations Zimbabwe! They were clearly the better team and outplayed us.

[wasi90lkv1]

Congratulations, Zimbabwe and Sikandar. They were very hungry to win. Positive vibe from them.

[Eshen]

Including the T20I series, Zimbabwe won the toss 6 out of 6 times this tour!

[Shartaz]

efff Zimbabwe, they are a rubbish team. Flukey wins.

Who doesn't win against bangladesh. I remember hong kong winning a T20 against BD.

[Zeeshan]

Ebadot is probably the most good looking player in Bangladesh if not the world. And trust me in California I have seen many good looking blokes...haha..

[Zeeshan]

Imagine Zimbabwe goes on to win from here...haha what a slap in the face it would be..

[Zeeshan]

That wicket finally seals it.

[Zeeshan]

When Bangladesh would use to lose to lesser strength teams we would say they lost to second string team. But this is our second string team with no Shakib and Nasir.

[Zeeshan]

Miraz and Taijul are like evil twin brothers...

[Night_wolf]

We have now won our 100th 200th 300th and 400th ODI match

[Zeeshan]

Bijoy played the innings of his life today. Probably one of 3 greatest innings of all time if not Bangladesh.

[godzilla]

Originally Posted by Shartaz
efff Zimbabwe, they are a rubbish team. Flukey wins.

Who doesn't win against bangladesh. I remember hong kong winning a T20 against BD.

Rubbish team is what BD is. Take the L gracefully for f@#k sake. Zim outplayed bd in both t20 and ODI, that too without some of their main players.

[DinRaat.]

Originally Posted by godzilla
Rubbish team is what BD is. Take the L gracefully for f@#k sake. Zim outplayed bd in both t20 and ODI, that too without some of their main players.

This is majority of Bengali fans (Shartaz) we will start to argue that this was our F team, not even B team.

[Eshen]

Originally Posted by DinRaat.
This is majority of Bengali fans (Shartaz) we will start to argue that this was our F team, not even B team.

In the ODI series, Zimbabwe were without their regular captain Craig Ervine, and key players like Sean Williams, Blessing Muzarabani, and Tendai Chatara. They even benched Ryan Burl for last two ODIs and Regis Chakabva for the last ODI, despite the team already being so depleted. They were missing more players from their best possible XI than we did. Who knows what would have happened if Burl (MOM of the last T20I) and Chakabva (centurion of the 2nd ODI) played the last ODI.

[Shingara]

Originally Posted by DinRaat.
This is majority of Bengali fans

You mean Bangladeshi fans ?