Bangladesh to play test match at Lords

[ferdous]

The English Cricket Borad has announced the itenary for the Summer 2005. England will play Bangladesh at Lord's (the home of cricket) starting from 26th of May 2005. Bangladesh will also compete in a triangular one-day series with England and Australia. This is great news for our cricket. Hopefully we will see good performance from our tigers.

Here is the full itenary English summer of 2005:

ENGLAND'S SUMMER SCHEDULE 2005

Tests

26-30 May 1st Test v Bangladesh, Lord's
3-7 June 2nd Test v Bangladesh, Chester-le-Street


Twenty20 International

13 June v Australia, Rose Bowl


NatWest Series

16 June England v Bangladesh, The Oval
18 June Australia v Bangladesh, Cardiff
19 June England v Australia, Bristol
21 June England v Bangladesh, Trent Bridge (D/N)
23 June England v Australia, Chester LS (D/N)
25 June Australia v Bangladesh, Old Trafford
26 June England v Bangladesh, Headingley
28 June England v Australia, Edgbaston (D/N)
30 June Australia v Bangladesh, Canterbury
2 July Final, Lord's

NatWest Challenge

7 July v Australia, Headingley
10 July v Australia, Lord's
12 July v Australia, The Oval

Tests

21-25 July 1st Test v Australia, Lord's
4-8 August 2nd Test v Australia, Edgbaston
11-15 August 3rd Test v Australia, Old Trafford
25-29 August 4th Test v Australia, Trent Bridge
8-12 September 5th Test v Australia, The Oval

[Edited on 24-6-2004 by ferdous]

[AsifTheManRahman]

This is good news. At last amader bideshe khelte giye kono notun math open korte hocche na...

Playing 2 tests in England with the ball moving around an awful lot is going to be a good test and learning experience for our batsmen. ODI's against Australia will also be gr8. Overall, I'm looking forward to a tour where we will learn a lot, and fail badly.

[FaltuRidwanBhai]

wow.....
that is a great honour and respect for us. i think for the first time actually bangladesh got so much respect from a country for cricket. jaihok it is going to be a great opportunity for us. and looking at the venue and the opponents the outcome of the series might not be as good. but ofcourse it will not be a good idea if we focus on our results. we have to see the positives that we will be gaining by playing in this tournament. if our players play their best than and keep up a good fight then that is going to be our success. but the series is actuallly next year. so we have actually a year. so i am sure our team will actually be more experienced and we will have more stars by that time. atleast we will have some good pacers.

[200SX]

26 th may 2005, i will b the memorable day for the cricketrs of bd who wil play tht game......playin test in lords is like studying in Oxfords for the students....so my urge to the cricketers bhai try heart n soul to get chance in tht team.........

[FaltuRidwanBhai]

ji bhai,
200sx apni kintu thiki bolechen. ai team a chance pawa kintu asholai akta boro orjon. ebong oboshhoi amader doler playerra eta buzhte parchen. ebong ai test match a keo jodi bhalo khelte pare tahole kintu shudhu deshai noi borong englandeo kintu bepok bhabe nam korte parbe. ebong ar shathe kintu hoi tader english county te khelar dorjao khule jete pare. dannabad.

[200SX]

Originally posted by FaltuRidwanBhai
ji bhai,
200sx apni kintu thiki bolechen. ai team a chance pawa kintu asholai akta boro orjon. ebong oboshhoi amader doler playerra eta buzhte parchen. ebong ai test match a keo jodi bhalo khelte pare tahole kintu shudhu deshai noi borong englandeo kintu bepok bhabe nam korte parbe. ebong ar shathe kintu hoi tader english county te khelar dorjao khule jete pare. dannabad.

y not Habibul Bashar play in country Cricket? If bulbul can play in 3rd division Country team, HB can play in First division......

[Shehwar]

WoW! It really is an awsome news..!! All these years I've been wondering when will we play our first test agaisnt England in England...'n that too to happen in Lords is something..!!...'n a triangular with Australia and England is an icing on the cake..!...U know wot..!..In this regard we are a lot luckier than Zimbabwe..Its been 12 years that they've been playing test cricket and I'm not so sure how many tests they've played in Australia and England..Personally AMAR AAR EKTA CHAWA BAKI ACHE...SHETA HOLO AUSTRALIA TE ANNUAL JE TRIANGULAR SERIES HOY SHEITATE BANGLADESH ER PARTICIPATION....

[200SX]

Shehwar, r u takin abt VB series?

[AsifTheManRahman]

i dont know what u mean by divisions, but bulbul used to play minor counties, and bashar shouldn't have a problem getting into one of the major county teams.

[AsifTheManRahman]

Playing in the VB series would be great too

[crazyisland]

Let's all plan on attending these games in UK and show our support to our team.

[200SX]

Originally posted by crazyisland
Let's all plan on attending these games in UK and show our support to our team.

i will attand if u will send me the return ticket?

[ferdous]

Hopefully we will play a test match at Eden Garden when we tour India in April 2005, a month before the England Tour. So, a good solid performance against India in December will certainly make the Indian Cricket Board think about it.

[oracle]

Let's all plan on attending these games in UK and show our support to our team

Man, I am not going to miss this. LORDS!!
Yes. This time we need to really organise a la Barmy army. -

-First of all by end of the year lets get a head count on all probable attendees and then gradually a permanent list by next year.

-Get a ticker going to count the days to the match.


But ,as always everything is as we say, inshallah.

[Navarene]

Originally posted by oracle

Man, I am not going to miss this. LORDS!!
Yes. This time we need to really organise a la Barmy army. -

-First of all by end of the year lets get a head count on all probable attendees and then gradually a permanent list by next year.

-Get a ticker going to count the days to the match.


But ,as always everything is as we say, inshallah.

If everything goes well till may, 2005, I will definitely join the tigers in Lords! Its only 2 hours flight from where I live now. Love to be a part of Bramy Army

[200SX]

hmm.........everyone is cumin........thn i must go........Navarene, r u gona sponser us acomodation in ur place??

:cool2:

[TigerFan]

Good news, Alhamdulillah!

[SS]

Isn't it kinda strange that England and Australia included Bd to play with them...are they gona try to test our "test" status.

[Zephaniah]

Originally posted by AsifTheManRahman
i dont know what u mean by divisions, but bulbul used to play minor counties, and bashar shouldn't have a problem getting into one of the major county teams.

Bulbul only played club/league cricket in England. period.
And as for Habibul, he needs to find a major county first which will be willing to pay for his service.

Barmy Army= English fans on the road.

What should we call BD fans?
'Tiger's Army'?

[FaltuRidwanBhai]

ji bhai,
bulbul played in the cricket league in england but i dont think it is that league where players like wasim or saqlain plays. i want to see bashar or ashraful in those kinds of teams like surrey....dannabad.

[Shehwar]

Yeah 200SX..
I was certainly talking bout the VB series..Thats one triangular tournament I really want our team to participate in…simply because the teams are guaranteed to play at least 8 to 10 matches and with that many matches, a few of our players are bound to come up with some good shows…also the fact that in happens in Australia..we’ll get good media coverage and hype….

[rafik]

good news

[Ahmed_B]

Originally posted by 200SX
y not Habibul Bashar play in country Cricket? If bulbul can play in 3rd division Country team, HB can play in First division......

Wel I wouldn't be that much unfair to Bulbul... he was a sound and consistant batsman.. considered as one of our All-time-bests.
The difference between Bashar and Bulbul is definitely not as much as 3rd division & 1st divisions!(if there are any divisions like that in English county)..

But ofcourse... It wil be simply great if our current players can play in the top class of English county crickets..!
lets hope they earn that scope by their performance!
CHEERS!

[Shehwar]

Well Bashar may be scoring a lot of runs but I believe if Bulbul was given the same opportunity he would have been only second to Bashar in scoring runs for our country…He had the most sound technique of all our Batsmen….And a young Bulbul is a lot better batsman than Bashar and a lot more predictable too…..Bulbul for instance would never ever play a reckless shot of the very first ball…I have nothing against Bashar but Bulbul was one heck of a class player and I would rather watch a young Bulbul playing classy shots than Bashar bashing the balls….Say if we had gotten the Test status in 1995 or there about then people who haven’t seen Bulbul at his best would have been able to see him in full cry…thank you..

[AsifTheManRahman]

Well Shehwar Bulbul was given the chance and he wasted it. That's why he was kicked out of the team in the first place. Personally, I believe that the difference between Bulbul and Bashar IS indeed equivalent to the difference between 3rd and 1st divisions.