Ideal first inings total?

[BANFAN]

Best Scenario: Bat as long as possible, no declaration until we have enough overs to bowl them out .... We shouldn't need more than 100 overs to bowl them out on the 5th day pitch. If we can bat that long, we will b able to give them a target of 250-300.. That should be enough.

Minimum: at least bat out 3rd day and get 100 run lead.

[Murad]

638+62=?

[meazz1]

I hope we score at least 350. I just don't have a good give about our batting after seeing how Nafees, Jahurul were throwing the bat.
Ash needs to score big for us.

[al-Sagar]

Originally Posted by nadim 98
So, we are @ 95-1 after end of day 2, and trail by 294 runs.

What would be the ideal first innings total?

IMHO, we should be looking to WIN this match, so if we bat whole day tomorrow (possible given that we still have 3 of our main batsman to bat), we will score another 315 (90*3.5) without losing more than 5 wickets by end of day 3. That will give us about 100+ runs lead. Then come out on day 4 and bat another 30 overs at least to take the lead to 180+ by 4th day Lunch. So ideally I would be happy, in fact WE SHOULD score 500+ on this track. No venom on this bowling attack unless we gift our wickets away.

We have enough spinners to put Zim under pressure on of day 4 it will assist them.


What you say?

exactly the same i feel.

need to get a lead of 100-200. and bat at least upto tomorrow lunch

[BengaliPagol]

My target is to bat till the end of Day 4 and use the whole Day 5 to bowl them out. The wickets will be very good for spin in the last day and we will have the upper going into the last day since we have Sohag, Enamul, Mahmudullah, Shakib, Ash and Nasir at our disposal in terms of spinners. Robiul will chime in very nicely with the ball. I think we can pull it off.

[Haradhon]

It depends on how Ash and Janurul handles the pacers early in the morning tomorrow. I would say plan to bat longer and if we have wickets in hand we could accelerate at the end with Shakib and Nasir....

[BD_TigerZ]

The stage we are in now, 400 is minimum and should be the score we are looking to get, 475 should be ideal.

[tglover]

Bangladesh would ideally want to score 100 runs per session and make well over 450 by batting well on Days 3 and 4. If they lose too many wickets on Day 3 thats going to make the task too difficult and Bangladesh would be going for a draw and might even see Zim pushing for a win. At least two batsmen really need to apply themselves for a long innings. The ideal scenario is to make 550-600 and watch Zimbabwe sweat.

[Shehwar]

We need to bat big and bat once so I would say 600 is ideal to hopefully inflict an innings defeat.

[kalpurush]

It all depends how Sir Ash bats....he could be the difference in this test.


If he treats the Zimbos like Sri Lanka, he might score big. And if he scores big, we would win the match IMHO.

[Murad]

Not expecting anything big from Shakib. He didn't have any match practice since the WI game in November. He might struggle in this game.

Hope I'm wrong. We need big innings from our middle order batsmen.

[kalpurush]

Originally Posted by Murad
Not expecting anything big from Shakib. He didn't have any match practice since the WI game in November. He might struggle in this game.

Hope I'm wrong. We need big innings from our middle order batsmen.

Same here Murad! Shakib is our moral boost....not expecting much from him.

[Maysun]

I would like somewhere around 500-550. But I think, we may end up somewhere around 450-500

[ReZ_1]

We just need to bat the whole day, its like you study hard, you will get the top marks..

[MohammedC]

Onek lojja pailam.

[BANFAN]

Anyone for 500 anymore....

[Roni_uk]

Flop thread:

700
650
600
500
480
450
400
350
300

currently (before lunch) - lets avoid follow on

[Holden]

Oh my, the saying "Don't count your chickens before they are hatched" comes to mind, lots of egg on faces

[Nadim]

Underestimated these ram chagols. Feeling like an idiot for that

[al-Sagar]

time for the thread ...... IDEAL 2nd innings score after we follow on

when was the last time we followed on ????

[roman]

Ideal score should be 200 now

[Rifat H]

Ai thread ar first page ar comment gula deikha hashi thamaite partachi na !

[KnightBD]

bad luck thread... totally Nadim's fault... gojob... allar gojob porche haram kaj ar jonno..
akhon theka airokom paglami thread ban kora uchit

[Nadim]

^ YOu are right bhai.

[crikss]

Originally Posted by AsifTheManRahman
We might get bundled out for 150 though.

You really know about Bangladesh cricket much better than others