Shots fired: Haturi

[Tigers_eye]

http://www.espncricinfo.com/story/_/...ingha-autonomy

Originally Posted by Haturi
"It will take some time. The players need to get used to the way that I think and operate, the different ways of training. If there is a way to fix everything by changing one thing, then the improvement might be quicker - but it's important to have some patience. We might win our next tour, but then again we might have more challenges in future matches. It's imperative that we look at the bigger picture."

After BD series their schedule is like

Asia Cup June 18
3 tests @WI July 18
3 tests @home SA Aug 18
3 tests, 5 ODIs, 1 T20 @home Eng Oct-Nov 18
2 tests, 3 ODIs, 1 T20 @NZ Dec 18
2 tests, 3 ODis @Aus Jan 19
2 tests, 5 ODIs, 3 T20 @SA. Mar 19.

Basically saying, they will beat BD guaranteed.

[Yankees]

much ado about nothing

[aklemalp]

** pee-chow**

Gunslingaaaa

And he has Malinga in his team now

[One World]

I want a test series win and it is possible.

Now is the time for Mushfiqur, free of all extra duties to let his bat talk and show his tiger-mojo. His father is also freed off the charges. What else does a boy need?

P.S. He is allowed to cry his heart out after making back to back double century, we shall be empathetic when he is emphatic.

[Fazal]

Blank fire. With chacha as head coach, nothing to worry.

[Eshen]

SLC will turn on Hathuru soon enough.

[al Furqaan]

Originally Posted by One World
I want a test series win and it is possible.

Now is the time for Mushfiqur, free of all extra duties to let his bat talk and show his tiger-mojo. His father is also freed off the charges. What else does a boy need?

P.S. He is allowed to cry his heart out after making back to back double century, we shall be empathetic when he is emphatic.

Best average last year with the burden of captaincy. Will be interesting to see how he does now.

Averaged 40+ as the skipper which is not bad at all.

http://stats.espncricinfo.com/ci/eng...s;type=batting

[One World]

Bowl full of jelly beans?

[Roey Haque]

Good. May the best team win. I cannot get 100% behind a team that continually and unabashedly support charlatans such as Musfekur.

[Rifat]

Originally Posted by Roey Haque
Good. May the best team win. I cannot get 100% behind a team that continually and unabashedly support charlatans such as Musfekur.

hey, he no longer captain sooo....you should still support Bangladesh

[MHRAM]

Can Lanka even beat Zimbabwe? Last time they were whipped by Zimbabwe in Lanka

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[Tigers_eye]

Originally Posted by MHRAM
Can Lanka even beat Zimbabwe? Last time they were whipped by Zimbabwe in Lanka

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http://www.espncricinfo.com/series/1...eries-2017-18/
Dec 10, 2017. @ ind.

[MHRAM]

Originally Posted by Tigers_eye
http://www.espncricinfo.com/series/1...eries-2017-18/
Dec 10, 2017. @ ind.

They lost everything after that.

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[Tigers_eye]

Originally Posted by MHRAM
They lost everything after that.

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How many you think we would win at ind? What did we do against ind in Champions trophy? They beat ind there as well right after losing to Zim at home.

You can't just count them out. They are also in match practice. We are on vacation mode. If they can beat ind at ind surely they can beat us or Zim in BD.

[Eshen]

Hathuru is making a whole lot of changes in matter of weeks -

1) Changing ODI captaincy from Thisara to Chandimal, where Chandimal was not even part of the last ODI team

2) Thirimanne axed, Kusal P back in his place

3) He got further justification for his obsession with wrist spinners as India doing well with them in LOI. So he may discard both of current pair of finger spinners to make place for a leggie and a chinaman (Sandakan).

With this sort of wholesale changes, a team often take time to settle down - which may work in our favour.

[aklemalp]

^^ good thing he's changing the captain.

Dinesh should be there captain in all formats.

Thirrimanne axing was legit, that guy has lost it.


Good to see restructuring from the Lankans. Hope this turns into something more stable for them

[al Furqaan]

Originally Posted by Tigers_eye
How many you think we would win at ind? What did we do against ind in Champions trophy? They beat ind there as well right after losing to Zim at home.

You can't just count them out. They are also in match practice. We are on vacation mode. If they can beat ind at ind surely they can beat us or Zim in BD.

You dont think Bangladesh can win fluke mamtches vs India? If we played 20 games vs India every year, we will also win 2 or maybe even 3.

[Eshen]

Originally Posted by aklemalp
Good to see restructuring from the Lankans. Hope this turns into something more stable for them

IMO, Hathuru's biggest shortcoming is he often gets too caught up in his strategies, not realizing he does not have capable players to implement them and that his strategies needs to change according to the skillset of players he has. Case in point - giving Tanbir debut in NZ, or his prolonged failed trial to make a bowling allrounder out of Hom.

I can see he is making a mess out of Sri lanka team with having total dictatorial power over them, without any sanity check .

[aklemalp]

Originally Posted by Eshen
IMO, Hathuru's biggest shortcoming is he often gets too caught up in his strategies, not realizing he does not have capable players to implement them and that his strategies needs to change according to the skillset of players he has. Case in point - giving Tanbir debut in NZ, or his prolonged failed trial to make a bowling allrounder out of Hom.

I can see he is making a mess out of Sri lanka team.

We learn from our mistakes. That's an essential human trait.

Do you think he'll follow the same pattern coaching his national team? Not another country's team....but his team.

SL are already a mess...the least he can do is get them out of that mess.

This is coming from someone who would like to see a stronger and more competitive SL side.
Cricket needs competitive teams. Haturi might truly rejuvenate his team.

[One World]

Choosing Soumya/Hom/Liton might be more protocol less by choice.

[Eclipse]

Originally Posted by al Furqaan
You dont think Bangladesh can win fluke mamtches vs India? If we played 20 games vs India every year, we will also win 2 or maybe even 3.

That's not the point. Point is, haturu believes that SL is a far better team than Bangladesh and he's expecting his team to win their next series against Bangladesh quite convincingly.

There is nothing wrong if he believes that Sri Lanka's main challenge will come when they will face other top ranked teams like Aus, Eng or SA later this year but not against a team like Bangladesh.

Isn't he right? Have we done anything extraordinary in the recent past to Warrent anymore respect than this from the opposition coach? If we had achieved even 10% of what SL have achieved in last one year or so, our fans would've declared our team as the no1 team in the world.

[Eclipse]

Originally Posted by Tigers_eye
http://www.espncricinfo.com/series/1...eries-2017-18/
Dec 10, 2017. @ ind.

Excellent T_E bhai excellent. Totally agree with u.

Not only this, as we all know, this Sri Lankan team have already conquered a fortress like UAE which no other teams have managed to do before. If I'm not wrong they have also beaten Australia in Australia in a t20 series, drew a test against a team like India (who r on their way to become one of the greatest test teams of all time) and whitewashed the mighty Australians in test.

[Rifat]

Originally Posted by Eclipse
Excellent T_E bhai excellent. Totally agree with u.

Not only this, as we all know, this Sri Lankan team have already conquered a fortress like UAE which no other teams have managed to do before. If I'm not wrong they have also beaten Australia in Australia in a t20 series, drew a test against a team like India (who r on their way to become one of the greatest test teams of all time) and whitewashed the mighty Australians in test.

Like i said, this Sri Lankan team is quite dangerous, although inconsistent and lacking senior mature leadership(void left by sanga, mahela, dilshan too much to fill). Angelo matthews can only do so much.

At home, losing more than one game in ODI's or Tests against them should be completely unacceptable for Bangladesh

[One World]

^losing one .. if you can whitewash much stronger and better Kiwis in subsequent series should not you think of that wash again now politically and technically much weaker opponent

[aklemalp]

Originally Posted by One World
^losing one .. if you can whitewash much stronger and better Kiwis in subsequent series should not you think of that wash again now politically and technically much weaker opponent

Well, to answer this question, it is more of the sub-continental factor.