Practice Match Thread: BCB XI v New Zealanders

[Nocturnal]

Practice Match: BCB XI vs New Zealanders

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Venue: Narayanganj Osmani Stadium, Fatullah
Date: October 7th 2008 (Tuesday)
Time: 09:00 am local, 11:00 pm EST, 03:00 am GMT


BCB XI squad: Junaid Siddique, Imrul Kayes, Shamsur Rahman, Rajin Saleh (capt), Nafees Iqbal, Tushar Imran, Mehrab Hossain jnr, Saghir Hossain (wk), Syed Rasel, Nazmul Hossain, Dolar Mahmud, Enamul Haque jnr.

NZ squad: Jamie How, Brendon McCullum (wk), Scott Styris, Ross Taylor, Daniel Flynn, Jesse Ryder, Jacob Oram, Gareth Hopkins (wk), Grant Elliott, Daniel Vettori (capt), Kyle Mills, Tim Southee, Mark Gillespie, Jeetan Patel, Chris Martin


Go BD Go!!

[Nocturnal]

less than 31 hrs to go and no match thread!! what happened to people

Anyway, this is the ONLY match before the series starts on 9th.
Hope we will repeat our performance just before WC2007 against Kiwis!!

[Nocturnal]

By the way, who wants to GO @ Fatullah on match day?!!!

[tonoy]

Lets go BD. Thanks for opening the thread nocturnal.

[Zeeshan]

wow....lot of seniors are back....

[Nocturnal]

Originally Posted by Gopal Bhar
wow....lot of seniors are back....

True. But I like it!
Thought it's related, so I'm borrowing two comments from another thread:

Originally Posted by HereWeGo
What this tells me is that we will definately have Naeem Islam for the national team. The idea behind the selection is simple. Expose the unknown during the ODI series. Do not let the NZ team figure out the weakness of the batting side even before it takes the field for the first ODI.

I love the selection.....
Thank God for no Naeem Islam on the practice match

Originally Posted by BANFAN
For the first time I have liked a practice match team of BD. The stupid idea of giving your best players a practice has finally gone off my nerves. The purpose of a practice match will be properly served this time. At least they will be able to see the form of the newcomers/poor performers, before they declare the final playing 11.

Common sense or conicident or compulsion or fluke, whatever prompted the decision, I have to applaude the output. Weldone BCB.

[Murad]

Rajin bolse shei ei match ta win korte chai..Ei match ta win korte parle naki tader attobisshash onek bere jabe.

Dekha jaak ki korte pare tara.. just shei opening e neme 30 ball e 5 na korlei hobe.

[kalpurush]

I am waiting to see how Nafis, Enamul and Rasel performs!? All the best.

[MohammedC]

Originally Posted by Nocturnal
By the way, who wants to GO @ Fatullah on match day?!!!

Guys, some one must go. Because I dont think we will get score update other wise. Dont forget what bhujee kom (zaved bhai), billah bhai, miraz bhai and tehsin bhai did for all of us during academy tour and before that oz tour. Calling grounds and sometime calling Raabeed bhai or Shujon bhai.

So on behalf of BC we are seeking a volunteer. Come on guys do something. honestly if I was in Bangladesh I would have gone to this match. Beside this is a good chance to see players like Imrul,Shamsur,shaghir against quality opposition.

[Ajfar]

shud be a gud fight between the openers....1 spot 3 contenders...for me i wud like the see the iqbal brothers together...

[mshakir56]

I am really keen to see Imrul Kayes perform. I really have high hopes for him. Best of luck Imrul.

[One World]

Go Rajin!

[Dhakablues]

As it appears, even the selectors are not convinced that Nafis Iqbal is ready for prime time just yet..At the end, it would be Kayes or Zunaed..Personally, I think the final XI for the ODI is already set with the Kayes, Naim being included and perhaps Robin if Rasel fails again tomorrow. The question more relevant for the selectors from tomorrows match is,, for the the test series whom from the senior side would they include and the practice match can answer that question.

[auntu]

will there be any live updates available here?

Will there be any Radio commentary of this match?

[yaseer]

we may need to rely on tigercricket.com for update

[Shehwar]

I really want Rajin to do well....For me he is one of the best batsmen we have...Lokking forward to him doing well in the practice matches and then living up to the billing during the test series if given the opportunity....ICL is a blessing in disguise...He will perform a lot better than Aftab who by the way is also one of my favourtite players...

[Abid_Khan]

Lots of seniors back and some young guys in the team, a good mix and it should be great even if the Kiwis are the favourites

[nzfan]

I want to see how Tim goes big future ahead for this young man, not often we get bowlers as talented as he and shane bond

[yaseer]

Mahbubul Alam Robin is also not in the practice match. Does that mean he will be selected for the ODI team? as we are predicting Nayeem is not selected because he will be in the main squad.

[auntu]

Originally Posted by yaseer
Mahbubul Alam Robin is also not in the practice match. Does that mean he will be selected for the ODI team? as we are predicting Nayeem is not selected because he will be in the main squad.

May be there is a chance of that as Rasel is not 100% fit. He might get in.

[Antora]

ewww Rajin is captain :S

Anywayz Good Luck BD. I am gonna keep a close eye on Nafis Iqbal's performance

[thebest]

Originally Posted by yaseer
we may need to rely on tigercricket.com for update

don't worry I would update you from the field inshallah.

[Rifat]

good choice from selectors, i like this practice squad leaving out Ashraful and Tamim Mortaza...

i hope my Boy Rasel shines i have deeply missed him for a while now and i think so did many

[Trigger_Tiger]

Result ki? Scorecard.....anyone?

[MohammedC]

Originally Posted by Trigger_Ti
Result ki? Scorecard.....anyone?

Result will be published tomorrow. They already played in their dream still have to do it for real tomorrow.