Your Expectation from South Africa Series 2008

[BD-Shardul]

Despite commanding performance against New Zealand, my expectation is low guys

T20

Probability of BD win is .55

ODI series

Good fight in one ODI and loss in two other without any fight.
Talking about individual expectation, Rasel, Shakib and Mortaza is likely to bowl very well. Batsmen are very unpredictable, but at least one batsmen will score 40 something to take our score past 100 and save our blushes.

Test Series

Zero expectation. Mentally I am ready to see our batsmen getting slaughtered by South African pace monsters. Most batsmen will get out cheaply by mistimed hook-pull, LBW, caught behind or caught in slip.
Both matches will be finished inside three days unless miracles happens or nature intervenes.

[Nadim]

my expection is play good cricket.like they played against nz.......i will be than hapy if they play good cricket

[Spitfire_x86]

SA wins all 6 matches (T20, ODIs, Tests), and innings defeat in at least 1 test.

[mahbubH]

If we can score more than 200 runs in each of test and ODI innings agains SA then I will be happy. I know 50% of the times they will score less than 200 runs. And 30/3, 44/4, 67/6 will be a very common in November for us.

[Nafi]

This SA team isnt even that good in one day anymore, they got pathetically whitewashed by England, who are by no means a good one day side.

[shabbir]

otherthan aus,eng all other team struggled in SA,even India with best batting in the world not did well in SA.so it will be unwise to expect much from BD.I want to see bd fight fight and fight..................

[Nafi]

Is there anything in SA for our main spinners: sakib, razzak and possibly enamul haq.

Its too bad, Razzak cant transform into a chinaman spinner as good as shane warne to add variety.

[al Furqaan]

on an individual level i want to see:

tamim (he needs to score some 50s, and convert one to a 100. given its SA in SA, i doubt a 100 will happen, but its damn time)

junaid (i want to see him bounce back and detract his detractors)

ash (just want to see something other than a single digit score or duck...get his eyes checked and push him to number 5)

sakib (just keep up the work, take a few wickets, score a couple 50s)

raqib (i have huge targets for him, its very good we have 4 matches for him settle down before he earns his test cap)

mehrab (just score some 50s)

mash (continue the ODI form, get to 75 test wickets)

rajib (get to 50 test wickets)

[al Furqaan]

Originally Posted by shabbir
otherthan aus,eng all other team struggled in SA,even India with best batting in the world not did well in SA.so it will be unwise to expect much from BD.I want to see bd fight fight and fight..................

sreesanth won them a test last year, so its possible our Fbs will shine.

batsman should crumble though.

[cricket_pagol]

BD will crumble in the bouncy pitches and Dhaka warrior will take the limelight by moving into the semis...

[Nocturnal]

gono-dholai - i wont say who is getting!

[Umar]

Originally Posted by al Furqaan
on an individual level i want to see:

Originally Posted by al Furqaan
junaid (i want to see him bounce back and detract his detractors)

= Chance of him doing that is 9% or less

Originally Posted by al Furqaan
ash (just want to see something other than a single digit score or duck...get his eyes checked and push him to number 5)

=will u really be satisfied if he scores 10 odd runs? NO! and chance of him scoring 50+ runs in two matches is 20% or less

Originally Posted by al Furqaan
mehrab (just score some 50s)

=Chance is 50%. One cannot rely on mehrab!

Originally Posted by al Furqaan
rajib (get to 50 test wickets)

= i don't know how many he needs to make it 50. but if its more than 3 wickets then Chance is 1%.

Not good is it?

[Tiger444]

Even though it iz a very negative attitude 4 me i just think South Africa iz 2 gud n will whitewash usin both forms of the game. The twenty20 match i can't say because anythin can happen in twenty20. The way they just slaughtered us in all of the matches except the 1st test and that wuz also in Bangladesh, just does not give me a good feelin. Even if they lose all the matches, all I really want them 2 do iz 2 play a competitive match against the proteas.

[Umar]

let me try be optimist....we will WIN twenty/20 against SA and a ONEDAY! and will be competative in one test! Watch out SA...Tigers are in hunt!

[bujhee kom]

from the bottom of my heart guys....
series win - every match win....for BD! nothing less....
Inshallah, we will beat safa in a test match on safa's soil like west indies did....Inshallah!

[Tigers_eye]

Pace Mon"stars". Like to see Rasel make Smith his bunny. That is all.

[bujhee kom]

Originally Posted by Tigers_eye
Pace Mon"stars". Like to see Rasel make Smith his bunny. That is all.

InshAllah! rasel baba is getting his groove back on....

[BD-Shardul]

To be honest, depending on ODI performance, I want to see Syed Rasel in test team. I am hopeful that he will do well in ODIs. Remember T20 Worldcup?

BCites will protest hugely about Rasel's inclusion in the test team as many of us thinks he is ineffective with the old ball. However, he first needs to be given chances. In SL he was given a chance and he took three wickets. Also if he can consistently bring breakthrough by taking a wicket or two, I will keep him in test XI.

[BD-Shardul]

And no player of the current BD squad has played any test match in SA before.

[sbsash]

I want Enamul jr instead of Razzak.

[sbsash]

My expectation is not much.Just a little fight by the batsmens and bowlers.

[nsd3]

No Rasel in TEST yet. Enamul - mmm ok let's play him. Expectation -

1) 450 in combined 2 innings with 250+ in one innings atleast.
2) Pacers should take 5 wkts between them, spinners should take the rest.
3) Tamim - Nafis might come as openers.

[auntu]

T20: প্রায় বিজয়/ সম্ভাবনার অপঃমৃত্যু।
ODI: একটি বিজয়ের দ্বাআর প্রান্তে। ২টি ধোলাই খাল সার্ভিস।
Test: সা নি ধা পা। মা গা রে।
ওরে পালা রে।

[Ajfar]

after somewhat decent performance against NZ...i hope we can keep this flow goingg...

[Rifat]

i want to see a test century from Ashraful