It's Shakib and Mushfiq show: Bangladesh's world cup so far

[Night_wolf]

Shakib needs 85 runs and 6 wickets to enter both all time top 10 run scorer and wicket taker list in world cup. He'll be the only player to feature in both list

[aklemalp]

Mushfiqur is the wk with the most runs in the WC

[Zeeshan]

Roey will eat you alive. ^^

[Night_wolf]

Originally Posted by aklemalp
Mushfiqur is the wk with the most runs in the WC

I see how you carefully avoided best wicket-keeper

[zman]

Originally Posted by Zeeshan
Roey will eat you alive. ^^

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[zman]

Originally Posted by Night_wolf
I see how you carefully avoided best wicket-keeper

I've seen only about half of our overs bowled in this world cup so far. Apart from that mind blowing brainfart against NZ he seems to have done okay behind the stumps. Were there any other gaffes that I missed?

[Night_wolf]

Originally Posted by zman
I've seen only about half of our overs bowled in this world cup so far. Apart from that mind blowing brainfart against NZ he seems to have done okay behind the stumps. Were there any other gaffes that I missed?

Missed De kock's catch in 1st match. we would have lost that match too if De kock did not have a brain fart was runout by mushfik in that same incident.

other than that his WK is ok in this world cup.

But his failures more often then not is massive(i.e de kock catch miss, KW run out) which will forever hide any decent WKing he does, and sometimes even hide his good performance with bat

[zman]

Can't wait for Liton to cement his place in the team so Mushy can be forced to relinquish the gloves. I don't understand why Mushy doesn't understand it'll help his own legacy. At this point there's nothing he can gain by holding on to the gloves

[Eshen]

Our top two scorers against India in last five years are not Shakib, Mushfiq, or Tamim. They are Liton and Soumya -

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

If we are to win against India, one of those two has to do something special.

[al Furqaan]

Sorry to be that guy, but a few technical points to be raised.

1) that gaffe vs NZ was not a wicket keeping mistake, it was a fielding mistake. Mushy is a terrible fielder so as long as he’s in the XI, giving him the benefit of gloves and standing as close to the stumps as possible is actually the safest move. In the infield he will be a disaster and in the outfield he would not stop any fours. Only solution is to leave him out of the XI, but given that he is one of our best batsmen WK it is.

2) Mushy did take a tough for his height at least catch vs De Grandhomme later in the game, so that cancels out. The bowlers had a chance to seal the win and couldn’t. Can’t just blame one run out against a team as good as NZ.

These are just basic cricketing points.

[BengaliPagol]

"one good catch" doesn't cancel out another terrible and shocking miss. That's not how it works. You may get an integration problem right but you can never do your additions wrong.

[zman]

Mushy's out was very disappointing

[zman]

Still can't get over Mushy's disappearing act in the most important game of them all. Especially after ENG's demolition job of NZ and knowing how close we were to getting into the semis the ache only gets worse. As a batsman Shakib outshone the world's best; Kohli, Smith, Williamson, Root, and pretty much everyone else. As an all rounder, there was Shakib, then there was English Summer and Winter, and then the next guy. As a team mate you don't let your star player down when all he's done is everything within his power, and been one of world cup's greatest showmen ever, to give you and your team a chance.

[adamnsu]

Originally Posted by zman
Mushy's out was very disappointing

None of them have any a responsible frame of mind and game sense. They wanted to be flamboyant and smack everything.

[adamnsu]

Originally Posted by anonymousGuy
These players were disappointing --> Sarkar, Mashrafe, Mithun, and Sabbir.

Mahmudullah also didn't do that well.

A league more worse than disappointing were
Tamim????

Mushfiqur???

[adamnsu]

Originally Posted by anonymousGuy
Tamim was disappointing. Yes. Forgot to add him.

Sarkar did worse though.

Muhfiqur's keeping was bad. His batting overall was acceptable.

Sarkar I would say was at par with Tamim.

Mushfiqur’s keeping was disappointing

[Navo]

Originally Posted by zman
Still can't get over Mushy's disappearing act in the most important game of them all. Especially after ENG's demolition job of NZ and knowing how close we were to getting into the semis the ache only gets worse. As a batsman Shakib outshone the world's best; Kohli, Smith, Williamson, Root, and pretty much everyone else. As an all rounder, there was Shakib, then there was English Summer and Winter, and then the next guy. As a team mate you don't let your star player down when all he's done is everything within his power, and been one of world cup's greatest showmen ever, to give you and your team a chance.

Spot on. This has been a world cup performance for the ages, the like of which we are unlikely to see again (honestly speaking).

[zman]

Originally Posted by Navo
Spot on. This has been a world cup performance for the ages, the like of which we are unlikely to see again (honestly speaking).

To put things in perspective below are the man of the tournament winners since the inception of the award:

Year Player Stats
1992 M.Crowe (456 runs)
1996 S.Jayasuriya (221 runs and 7 wickets)
1999 L.Klusener (281 runs and 17 wickets)
2003 S.Tendulkar (673 runs (11 innings, avg 61, 1 hundred) and 2 wickets)
2007 G.Mcgrath (26 wickets)
2011 Y.Singh (362 Runs and 15 wickets)
2015 M.Starc (22 Wickets)

Here's what Shakib has done through 8 matches:
542 runs (8 innings, avg 90, 2 hundred) and 11 wickets (31 avg, 1 5 wk haul)

[Navo]

Originally Posted by zman
To put things in perspective below are the man of the tournament winners since the inception of the award:

Year Player Stats
1992 M.Crowe (456 runs)
1996 S.Jayasuriya (221 runs and 7 wickets)
1999 L.Klusener (281 runs and 17 wickets)
2003 S.Tendulkar (673 runs (11 innings, avg 61, 1 hundred) and 2 wickets)
2007 G.Mcgrath (26 wickets)
2011 Y.Singh (362 Runs and 15 wickets)
2015 M.Starc (22 Wickets)

Here's what Shakib has done through 8 matches:
542 runs (8 innings, avg 90, 2 hundred) and 11 wickets (31 avg, 1 5 wk haul)

Truly incredible. How many matches did Klusener and Yuvraj play for their respective wicket tallies?

[zman]

Originally Posted by Navo
Truly incredible. How many matches did Klusener and Yuvraj play for their respective wicket tallies?

In both cases 9 matches

[Navo]

Originally Posted by zman
In both cases 9 matches

That's an impressive number of wickets then, from both of them.