Zimbabwe bigger threat than NZ

[dolcevita]

Aftab is crap

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[napoleonIV]

Originally Posted by bujhee kom
I agree with FishyGuy bro totally here! Zim series will be a much tougher beast I believe too. And also as Zim is climbing back up again, they do target BD as their best possible beatable (might be a non-existent word, but you know what I am saying) opponent as we are right there with them, plus point number 2 - last year or so, Zim always winningat least a match per series, whether the opponent is Australia, India or whoever! (Yes it is true, they usually win at the beginning of the series match, like the first match, after that they can't keep it up, they tend to get very tired and hopeless, Now Bd remember BD also has a pattern of history in this fashin). Third, Zim won 2 matches out the 4 played matches against BD in BD, that was a 2-2 draw series, the way one can look at it (it was (1+1)Zim and 2 (BD), do you understand dadas, what I am sayin in here?, the series had 3 matches and their was tri-nation thing the week before where they faced each other only once and BD bite the dust)

But in our hearts we will wish for the best for BD, but in doing so we must not forget blown ego, big headedness is never a beautiful thing, it's rather the ugliest of things. All our BD/Tiger fans, who want to see BD succeed and want to enjoy a good feeling when BD does that, this is my seriously proven suggestion: Those of us amongst us who pray, those who are religious (whatever that religion may be) please talk less, type big fonted hyped up big words of dream, rather engage yourself in a little bit of praying for the Tigers. Hope for the best but we should always jump less, talk less, wait for the strike moment and after the opponent is crushed, rejoice but with certain calm and elegant composure, like a heavy weight champ/victor. Now at this crossrroad of our BD cricket life we would like to make our opponents not fear, but respect us first. And those of us who has no connection with any religion or religious at all, again please think positive for the Tigers and engage in constructive thoughts and conversation on how to fix our cricket deficiencies, how to improve the cricket culture of BD etc.

Because if we fans and well-wishers just talk big and dream rainbows, and then we get mud thrown in inner-spirit when we crash (which happened more than often until just a few weeks ago) it's no good, it happenned to me, happens to me and it hurts very bad, it get you very depressed and makes you feel worthless often about your own-self, we don't want to hurt like that.

Go Tigers! BD

Excellent post. Is there any way to rate? I hope our fans will pay heed to it.

[Jadukor]

Aftab may be crap at the top of the order where we need big scores from the batters...but he is definitely a better choice at the death than Mahmudullah whose strike rate is below 70% compared to aftab's (83%)... Aftab is an impact player with very low IQ... He is good for those quickfire 30s and 40s... which we are lacking at the death atm... besides who remembers the last time Mahmudullah scored a fifty or played a match winning innings in ODIs?

[jisaan]

Originally Posted by FagunerAgun
Zimb and SA spinners do not have the 'beguiling guile' that our spinners do.
Our spinners will create a mesmerizing web and tame the Zimb batsmen.
Tamim's return will be a bonus, atleast Rock will be dropped.
Let them on in.

and what abt the menacing RUBEL HOSSAIN?
in current form, he has the ability to knock a few zimbos at will, mark my words

[mac]

Zim series is really going to be much tougher, they are lot used to our condition and know our team inside out as we play each other so often.

[mishu]

Simple: Bangladesh 5 - Zimbabwe 0

Tamim Iqbal
Imrul Kayes (best to partner Tamim)
Shahreer Nafees
Jahrul Islam
Shakib Al hasan
Mshmudullah
Mushfiq
Shuvo
Abdur Razzak
Shafiul
Rubel

extra: Shovagoto, Nur, Pacer,,,

[Jadukor]

I dont think u can term the performances of just two games as "current form"...

Rubel and Shahadat have been simply pathetic run leaking machines for over a year or so... Although the new bowling coach seems to have done his magic on Rubel, we would still need to wait and see alteast a couple of games against zimbabwe to be sure he has improved... we have group opponents like Sehwag, Smith, Gayle... we will be killed if he degrades back to the radarless stuff he bowled before...

I like Shafiul... he and Mashrafi would be my preffered pacers...

[BANFAN]

If the wickets remain as it was during the NZ series, Zim will not be so tough opponents. They are doing well against SA with the bat, is mainly due to wicket. Their bowlers were completely ineffective against SA in that wicket.

I think we will have another white wash against Zim.

[mac]

Originally Posted by jisaan
and what abt the menacing RUBEL HOSSAIN?
in current form, he has the ability to knock a few zimbos at will, mark my words

Exactly, and i think in this period of time Pont will work on his pace so that he can reach 140 consistently again with the current kind of accuracy.

[BANFAN]

Originally Posted by mishu
Simple: Bangladesh 5 - Zimbabwe 0

Tamim Iqbal
Imrul Kayes (best to partner Tamim)
Shahreer Nafees
Jahrul Islam
Shakib Al hasan
Mshmudullah
Mushfiq
Shuvo
Abdur Razzak
Shafiul
Rubel

extra: Shovagoto, Nur, Pacer,,,

I would prefer shuvogoto in place of Mahmudullah/Razzaq

[mac]

Originally Posted by mishu
Simple: Bangladesh 5 - Zimbabwe 0

Tamim Iqbal
Imrul Kayes (best to partner Tamim)
Shahreer Nafees
Jahrul Islam
Shakib Al hasan
Mshmudullah
Mushfiq
Shuvo
Abdur Razzak
Shafiul
Rubel

extra: Shovagoto, Nur, Pacer,,,

I want Hom in place of Mahmudullah, just like we brought in Tamim in that Zim series before 2007 WC.

[Jadukor]

Originally Posted by mac
I want Hom in place of Mahmudullah, just like we brought in Tamim in that Zim series before 2007 WC.

yeah... we need two try atleast a couple of our bench strength... besides Hom, Nazimuddin has made lots of runs in the domestic circuit...and in ICL he showed he can whack the ball too...maybe he can be given an opportunity...

[Sohel]

Originally Posted by AsifTheManRahman
Heads must roll if we don't win 5-0. No excuses for losing to a team ranked below us. Our reputation is more at stake against Zimbabwe than it was against New Zealand.

Couldn't agree more! Another nadmirable post from my second favorite BC guydol of late. There is a difference between liking Tony Soprano and a Tony award winning male soprano from the off Broadway version of the 'Prance of Sissypuss'.

Zimbabwe has good batsmen who have improved quite a bit over the years. I'm sure their bowlers have too, but better than the fruit-down-under? Not unless we take them for granted like a bunch of ramchhagols. There is no room for alga bravado in international cricket if we want to continue to move up the rankings.

[firstlane]

Originally Posted by Spitfire_x86
We'll win 4-1

I will do a little McGrath here, "Which game do you want to lose?" 1st, 2nd....last?
No I dont want to lose any at all. We should target 5-0 for a start.

But having said that we should not underestimate zims. Taibu alone took matches out of our hands in the past. Now they have more capable batsmen- taylor, coventry and old Grant Flower. Their lower order is not bad as well. And their bowling? We dont need good bowling to crash. We have proved that many times before. So IMHO the key would be to try improve our game without thinking about the opposition much.

[al Furqaan]

i prefer to see flat wickets...my thing ever since that humiliation we sufferd at the hands of ZIM last time they toured us and made it 2-2, was that against G8 sides we need minefields i.e dustbowls. our multi-pronged spin attack can leave all teams except India (and even them on a fairly consistent basis) in tatters. against minnows, make flat tracks. tamim and shakib will simply bat them out of the game.

on a minefield, price/cremer/utseya will get an chance to dictate terms, and while they aren't as good as sakib/razzak/shuvo/riyad, they're good enough to make our diarrhea-prone batsman run the toilet at least a few times in the course of a 5 game series.

minefield --> likley 3-2 win for Bangladesh
flat track --> we win 5-0 (maybe slip once for 4-1).

[shakibrulz]

How about a seamer friendly track? Their seamers are all crap. Bangladesh needs to get accustomed to high scoring flat tracks too, I agree.

[jisaan]

Problems in Batting:
1) Absence of Tamim - Insha-Allah, his return is not so far away

2) Form of Junaid- Junaid looked ok with his strokes, but couldn't carry through, which will be fine with one good innings, i think. His fielding is what worries me.

3) Form of Roqibul - He's one guy who has been utterly disappointing. He has been unable to accumulate or accelerate. His current form is a big worry for the team and might be encoraging for a few inspirants like Jahurul, Ashraful.

4) Lack of firepower at BPP esp. Mahmudullah - He remains a pain-in-the-neck. Batting at No.7, his strike rate has equalled or exceeded 100% only in 10 occassions out of 50 innings (4 of which are innings of less than 10 runs). and 28 times his SR was below 70% which is a shame for a lower order specialist.

A few problems might be solved with mashrafe's return. He is one guy, who can help us accelerate in BPP. Shuvo, Shafiul & Raz might be given special attention to capitalize the BPP restrictions.

Problems in Bowling:

1) Shafiul is still too expensive. His strike rate is fantastic though. But he has got the man IAN PONT to help him out. Hope he emulates some of RUBEL's heroics and put the selectors into some trouble on whom to select along side Mashrafe

2) Shuvo has been a revelation but his every now-and-then leg-side deliveries has been a thing to worry about. Otherwise he is more than good as the 3rd spin option.

[al-Sagar]

the SA pitches are hard and bouncy, but the BD pitches are slow and low bounce. that will be the problem for zimbabwe. they are always good at hard and high bouncy pitches.

but they will struggle at BD. though their slow bowlers and spinners may trouble us too.

[jisaan]

H.Masakadza, Brendon Taylor, Chibhaba, Coventry, Williams, Ervine... they have some real good talent
But the biggest threat would be Taibu & Chigumbura.
In a way it would a good test for our highly reputable bowling attack.
Real good opportunity for us to gear up for the World Cup.

We've heard much abt how Mahmudullah is trying to be a good slogger. Also, Shuvo needs to warm-up with bat & ball. It would be a good one for him too.

Hope Jahurul gets a break and proves his worth over roqibul

[LBW103]

Zim are a very average team. They are playing a South Africa 'A' team and getting smashed. We would beat that SA side over here EASILY on our pitches. So please don't worry about ZIM! They are not in NZ class or level. Their bowlers are nowhere NEAR as good as ours either, so don not worry about them bothering our batsmen.

Please, can the BD fans on here realise that the fielding and bowling are now far more improved and stop going back to the bad old days?

The fast bowlers bowled the last over in 3 of the ODI wins, to defend totals.. what more do you want?

Apart from the odd bad ball to ruin an over, we have bowled superbly. Credit to the genius Pont and coaching skills of Fountain. Hope we can keep them before some other country like India grabs them

[Jadukor]

Originally Posted by LBW103
Zim are a very average team. They are playing a South Africa 'A' team and getting smashed. We would beat that SA side over here EASILY on our pitches. So please don't worry about ZIM! They are not in NZ class or level. Their bowlers are nowhere NEAR as good as ours either, so don not worry about them bothering our batsmen.

huh?... are we talking about the same team that has Amla, Smith, De Villiers, Ingram, Morkel?... did u see how easily they amassed 350?.. can u think of any wicket plus 30 bonus runs that would enable bd to score 350? We just won one series after a zillion losses... lets not get overconfident...

[BANFAN]

Originally Posted by LBW103
Zim are a very average team. They are playing a South Africa 'A' team and getting smashed. ............

SA Playing with full team and they aren't getting smashed ...........

[Zeeshan]

Originally Posted by Sohel NR
Couldn't agree more! Another nadmirable post from my second favorite BC guydol of late. There is a difference between liking Tony Soprano and a Tony award winning male soprano from the off Broadway version of the 'Prance of Sissypuss'.

Zimbabwe has good batsmen who have improved quite a bit over the years. I'm sure their bowlers have too, but better than the fruit-down-under? Not unless we take them for granted like a bunch of ramchhagols. There is no room for alga bravado in international cricket if we want to continue to move up the rankings.

I am your first favorite right?

[Tanjim]

I think it will be a challenge for us.Remember that NZ has played here without any practice match.Zim is more comfortable than Nz in our condition.Grant Flower will enrich their experience.Another reason is that in the Nz series Nz was the clear favourite so there was more pressure on them which destroyed their batting but as Ban is favourite against Zim so Ban has to face a lot of pressure.

[lamisa]

if we want to see some good totals in this series,firstly what we need to do is kick rokibul out of the team!!!then we should get a good stroke player at no.7/8.riyad so low down the order is the funniest practical joke ever!if the selectors are so interested in keeping him in the team,they should promote him or else drop him for everybody's sake!get kapali in the team if he performs this season...