[August, 2009] Bangladesh lost to Zim A in practise match.

[fais]

lose or win...what this practice match has def. shown is that THIS IS NOT WI!!! do not play 4 spinners and 2 pacers... we should at least play 3 pacers with three allrounder spinners

[beshideshi]

Originally Posted by capslock
Errr....you just described the opposite of what indifferent means.

Sorry bro, mejaj ta bigrae gesilo, so word ta ektu ulta palta hoye gese :P

[Rocksta]

Practice ম্যাচ যত ইচছা খারাপ করুক কোন দুঃখ নাই। শুধু আসল ম্যাচগুলা জিততে পারলেই হইলো। ওয়েষ্ট ইন্ডিজেও প্রস্তুতি ম্যাচে আমরা হারতে হারতে ড্র করছিলাম। পরে তো টি২০ ছাড়া সবই জিতলাম। ভ্রমণ ক্লান্তি কাটাইয়া উঠার আগেই ম্যাচটা হুওয়াতে হয়ত সবাই খেলতেও পারে নাই। আর ম্যাচটাতে ভালো না করাতে টীম সিরিজটা সিরিয়াস হইয়া খেলবে। তবুও একটু খারাপ লাগতেছে। কিন্তু জিম্বাবুয়ে কিন্তু ওদের আসল টীম নিয়াই মনে হয় খেলতে নামছিলো। আর Zim আগের থেকে অনেক শক্তিশালী এখন ওদের পুরাতন কিছু খেলোয়াড় ফিরা আসছে বইলা। যাই হোক আমি শুধু চাই আসল সিরিজে বাংলাদের যেন জিতে, এইসব প্রস্তুতি ম্যাচে যত খুশি বাজে খেলুক।

[al Furqaan]

Originally Posted by Mridul
well well well.....its all about qualiy.....the quality of current Zim players are as per to Bangladesh....but BD players are little bit more experienced by playing the top teams regularly....otherwise...in my opinion.....BD Zim and Ire are in the same line.....no wonder we lost to Ireland twice in international cricket and lost 8 out of 24 matches against the weakend Zim team

As for the current series Zimbabwe is favourite....they beat us in Bangladesh twice this year already....and they will definitly be a very tough oponoent to beat in their homeground...i would say we may loose this series by 1-4 or 2-3.....and if we manage to win the seris...it will be tight...may be 3-2....hopefully after the series BD fans will probably get the much clearer picture of the strenght and depth of our national team

a) we won 4-1
b) could have 5-0 had management not benched junaid for the 3rd ODI for unknown reasons
c) depth of national team was decent given that #1 and #3 pacers missed all 5 games, #4 pacer missed 2-3 matches, #5 pacer didn't even make the squad, and #6 pacer ripped through the top order and uprotted stumps twice in the one match he got. batting depth remains a worry, although this series was the first were 4 different batsmen scored big runs, with centuries each from tamim, ash, and sakib. rahim had 98 - which is a de facto century, IMO, and rock scored 78 which is a solid score as well.

[Tiger444]

This is a perfect example of how practice matches just dont mean ****..look at how the series ended up? Also Mridul with the usual negative attitude towards BD..losing 1-4 or 2-3? Maybe winning 3-2 very tightly? The matches that we won were not even closely..we outplayed them badly..BD is really not that bad of a team buddy..we might not be a top 8 side but we are definitely ahead of Zimbabwe and Ireland..

[Rainman]

Originally Posted by beshideshi
you know whats wrong with BD fans?? they are way too indifferent about everything. Once they won a series in WI suddenly they are the best team, Riyad becomes the best off spinner and so on.
and BD loses a practice game, wehre half of the main players didnt play, they just landed there last night, and we call it coming back to what you call 'reality'

Huh? "Indifferent" means that you don't care either way, apathetic, neither hostile nor friendly. What do you mean?

[mij]

As I always say practice match means fix your weakness, not showing your strength.

[Eshen]

I don't think the team did intentionally poor in that match, they were still suffering from jet lag. The day before the match, many players did not have clothes to change to, as their luggage were missing. They could not take shower either as the hotel they were staying at did not have running water that day.