THE COLLAPSE - Ashraful Out

[fwullah]

Bangladesh 315/5 (123.2 ov)
Pakistan

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Bangladesh won the toss and elected to bat first

Bangladesh RR: 2.55


Minimum overs
remaining today: 56.4


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Batsmen: R B 4s 6s S/R

Alok Kapali (RHB) 0 3 0 0 0.00 Non-striker


Bowlers: O M R W Econ
Shoaib Akhtar (RF) 19.2 2 45 2 2.33 (5nb, 0w) Pavilion End
Danish Kaneria (LB) 35 10 90 1 2.57 (0nb, 0w) College End


Recent Overs: . . . 2 . 3 | . 1 . W N3 N. . . | . . W . . . | . W


Last Wicket: 315/5 (123.2 ov); Partnership: 0 runs, 0.5 overs, RR: 0.00
Mohammad Ashraful c Rashid Latif b Shoaib Akhtar 77 (243m 201b 7x4 0x6) SR: 38.31
123.2 Shoaib Akhtar to Mohammad Ashraful, OUT: short ball again, tries to
pull it from outside off stump, top edge and an easy catch in the
hand of Rashid

Bangladesh 315/5, Partnership of 0
Mohammad Ashraful c Rashid Latif b Shoaib Akhtar 77 (201b 7x4 0x6)
Alok Kapali 0* (3b) Shoaib Akhtar 19.2-2-45-2 (5nb)

Khaled Mashud in
123.1 Shoaib Akhtar to Mohammad Ashraful, no run, short ball, defends it
to cover

End of over 123 (maiden) Bangladesh 315/4
Danish Kaneria 35-10-90-1 - College End
Mohammad Ashraful 77* (199b 7x4) Alok Kapali 0* (3b)

122.6 Danish Kaneria to Alok Kapali, no run, again, flighted on the off,
Batsman leans forward and defends it
122.5 Danish Kaneria to Alok Kapali, no run, flighted on the off, Batsman
leans forward and defends it
122.4 Danish Kaneria to Alok Kapali, no run, left alone outside off

[fwullah]

Minimum overs
remaining today: 56.2

Alok Kapali and Khaled Mashud are at the crease now, even if they play 30 odd overs together, we will loose this test match.

The way they have batted, they are not going to score or stay at the wicket for too long in the 2nd innings.

There goes our chance for a first test draw.

[DOORBIN]

Time to declare I guess....

A lot of it depends on our bowlers.

[fwullah]

Khaled Mashud lbw b Shoaib Akhtar 0 (5m 3b 0x4 0x6) SR: 0.00

[James90]

WTF HAPPENED!!!! I went to do homework i came back and they had lost 4/4

[Nasif]

They are reminding us that they are still them.

[fwullah]

125.3 Shoaib Akhtar to Alok Kapali, OUT: good inswinger, Kapali tries to
defend it, got the inner edge of the bat, Rashid dives towards his
left and takes a very good catch

They won't have to remind us of who they actually are, we know it already - guess we will never get to reach our highest test score of 400.

[mona]

3-310 to 7-320

whoops better not speak to soon in case another wicket falls next ball

[mona]

8/320

woohoo i was right

[fwullah]

125.6 Shoaib Akhtar to Mohammad Rafique, OUT: swinging yorker, batsman
tries to defend it, beaten by pace and swing, ball hit the off
stump, Shoaib got his 5th wicket

[fwullah]

126.3 Shabbir Ahmed to Khaled Mahmud, wide: no run, short ball, tries to
pull it, misses, umpire called a wide

[fwullah]

127.3 Shoaib Akhtar to Khaled Mahmud, no run, another lovely yorker,
inner edge onto pads, ball rolling and hitting the stumps but
bails doesnt come off, lucky escape for skipper

[Nasif]

If he doens't make 50 now, he will be burned alive.

[mona]

i think now is a good time to sit down and think about why we put ourselves through so much bullshit

[DOORBIN]

fwullah,

You really do understand cricket. As soon as Ashraful was out you wrote.... here's the starting of the batting collapse --- something like that.

Bangladeshi batting is like TASHER GHOR

[Nasif]

I thought about that, and answer is we don't have any reason for this bullshit and yet we have 1000s of reason go through this every time

[deshitrader]

Sad...how sad.
I go to sleep right after Javed gets his century and BD is on 250-2. I wake up to find BD all out for 361. Worse still, I take a look at the Fall of Wickets:

FoW: 1-13 (Hannan Sarkar, 5.1 ov), 2-180 (Habibul Bashar, 65.5 ov), 3-310 (Javed Omar, 121.4 ov), 4-315 (Rajin Saleh, 122.3 ov), 5-315 (Mohammad Ashraful, 123.2 ov), 6-315 (Khaled Mashud, 123.5 ov), 7-320 (Alok Kapali, 125.3 ov), 8-320 (Mohammad Rafique, 125.6 ov), 9-341 (Mashrafe Mortaza, 133.2 ov), 10-361 (Khaled Mahmud, 137.5 ov).

...and notice that BD were 310-2 at one point. From 310-2 to 361 all out? I remember thinking that even if Ashraful or Javed were to get out, there would be stiff resistance from Rajin, Kapali, and Khaled Masud. Surely, Bangladesh would get 400+, or even 450+, no? Alas, no....this is a team with a penchant for undoing all the good that comes out of hard work. And it was that bit of knowledge about this team that led me to restrain my elation yesterday. I suppose I did not restrain my thoughts enough.

Disappointed, but still looking forward to a different future....

[cricket_er]

Even though colapse was at the back of my mind last night when we were all at the chat but I really thought this time round it will be different, I also went to bed during lunch break, hoping to see 400+ runs this morning.

This innings could have been a really memorable one for Bangaldesh.

[Tehsin]

So much negative feedback.

What's done is done, hope the ones who predicted the doom had a great nights sleep. However, I went to bed at lunch with us on 302 for 2.

Its sad to read this doomsday messages over and over and over. We are not awfully good, I get it. No reason to cheer when that side of ours comes true.

Yes, we should have crossed 400 easy, we could have batted on till stumps. Infact, the slump was as amazing as the rise. In any case, we still have 361 on the board, we managed to take 2 wickets (shujon surprisingly at 5-1-15-1) and could have done more if Kabir wasn't bowling. With 227 runs still to go, we can even hope to get a lead.

My worry is going to be the wicket on the fourth day, when we bat again.

IMHO - the 'I told you so's border madness.