NTV leaks team to Zim-Taposh,Tamim,Sharif in

[pagol-chagol]

NTV news said the 15 man team has been set and will be announced on the 25th. Sharif, Tamim, Mushfiq and Taposh are in and Pilot will sit out due to injury.

[pagol-chagol]

Faruq in the interview mentioned that he likes Zunaed Imrose and couple of others (I forgot). I guess Tamim jumped over him with his consistency. Zunaed's days are coming soon. Farooq is really worried about lack of form of BD batsman. He thinks performance in the domestic circuit is important for new players to penetrate into the national team. The newsmen have started to refer to Taposh as an all-rounder. Shareef is really excited about his own batting. Shahriar says all batsman have lean days, and thinks his lean patches will come to an end soon. Nothing wrong with his techniques. Bashar kebla said something, but I always block out whatever he says.

[Farhad]

Thats the end of Mashud......He shouldnt be brought into the WC, thats for sure. He hasnt played in the international stage for......i dunno, quite some time now. Mushfiq is gonna be brought in.

[sadi]

If Mushfiq can play one or two good innings, it will be very hard for the selectors to drop him for the world cup. I thought only one between Tapash and Sharif will get in but looks like both of them will get a chance to prove themselves and fight for the third seamer spot. So if I am not mistaken, these are the 15 selected for the Zim tour:

Shahriar Nafees
Tamim Iqbal
Aftab Ahmed
Sakib Al Hasan
Habibul Bashar
Mohammad Ashraful
Mushfiqur Rahim
Mashrafee Mortaza
Mohammad Sharif
Abdur Razzak
Shahadat Hussain
Tapash Baishya
Mehrab Hussain
Mohammad Rafique
Forhad Reza/ Nadif Chowdhury

[pagol-chagol]

Originally Posted by sadi
If Mushfiq can play one or two good innings, it will be very hard for the selectors to drop him for the world cup. I thought only one between Tapash and Sharif will get in but looks like both of them will get a chance to prove themselves and fight for the third seamer spot. So if I am not mistaken, these are the 15 selected for the Zim tour:

Shahriar Nafees
Tamim Iqbal
Aftab Ahmed
Sakib Al Hasan
Habibul Bashar
Mohammad Ashraful
Mushfiqur Rahim
Mashrafee Mortaza
Mohammad Sharif
Abdur Razzak
Shahadat Hussain
Tapash Baishya
Mehrab Hussain
Mohammad Rafique
Forhad Reza/ Nadif Chowdhury

Russel out????

[AsifTheManRahman]

did they really drop rasel? i guess it would make sense, since it's pointless taking five seamers in the side. not that i support the idea of dropping rasel - i thought only one of taposh/sharif should've been in the team, but the selectors are obviously in a way better place to make any judgement. good to see sharif making it back to the team after such a long time - speaks of hard work and determination.

looks like it's an open field for mushfiq now; if he scores, he's in the WC team. if he doesn't, he'll have to wait.

[cricket_dorshok]

Pilot should be out of ODI team, no question about it. don't we have wicket keeper so that Mushfiq needs to compete with them like Tamim with Junaid .......? it seems that Mushfiq is kinda automatic choice as his predecessor.

[sadi]

Originally Posted by pagol-chagol
Russel out????

I wouldn't think they will pick Rasel when there are already four seamers in the team. Plus I am not sure whether Forhad Reza is in the team but if he is, you can add him to that list eventhough I don't count him as one.

[kalpurush]

Feel sad for Rasel
I think selectors played like Mehrab (no risk...play safe!)
Well, now have to wait to see If Nadif could make it !!

[pagol-chagol]

Ashraful said that Sharif is by far the best old ball bowler in Bangladesh. He can reverse swing the ball really well. Sharif and Ash started playing for BD at the same time 4 years ago. When Sharif got injured and couldn't ball for sometime, he became a good batsman.

[tglover]

Nice to see Tamim in and Sharif back. Too bad for Pilot ... bad timing of injury I still think he is #1 choice for the world cup because of his experience and talent ... lets hope he gets better soon and doesn't have a sad end to his international career

[Orpheus]

NOt playing Mashud in the world cup will be the biggest mistake you can make!!! There is NO TIME for EXPERIMENTATION NOW.

Mushfique will just be a back up wk... I don't see the logic in picking Sharif/taposh over Rasel though...

[Miraz]

I think 15 member squad will look like this -

Shahriar Nafees
Tamim Iqbal
Aftab Ahmed
Sakib Al Hasan
Habibul Bashar
Mohammad Ashraful
Mushfiqur Rahim
Mashrafee Mortaza
Mohammad Sharif
Abdur Razzak
Shahadat Hussain
Tapash Baishya
Mehrab Hussain
Mohammad Rafique
Syed Rasel/ Nadif Chowdhury

Farhad is defnitely out. I think Nadif do not have place in the current squad. Selectors might opt for him due to lack of runs from other players in the domestic league (to be fair nadif hasn't performed as well).

I am seriously against dropping Rasel. I will take Rasel over Sharif in any day.

[BangladeshFan]

tamim is leftie right? they chose 3 left handed openers in the team which is bad selection. why not zunaid in place of mehrab?? playing safe against zimbo babies ........ when will these bd selectors learn to be positive?

[TheWatcher]

Originally Posted by BangladeshFan
tamim is leftie right? they chose 3 left handed openers in the team which is bad selection. why not zunaid in place of mehrab?? playing safe against zimbo babies ........ when will these bd selectors learn to be positive?

Junaid is a lefty too. Most of the big eight teams also open with two lefties nowadays, don't see anything wrong with that approach.

[HereWeGo]

Originally Posted by Orpheus
NOt playing Mashud in the world cup will be the biggest mistake you can make!!! There is NO TIME for EXPERIMENTATION NOW.

Mushfique will just be a back up wk... I don't see the logic in picking Sharif/taposh over Rasel though...

If one more time someone uses the word experience to defend mashud than i will fall sick..

Get this fact right... he just cant bat... even against the most benign attack in the world. World cup 2007 will be played in future and not in past so please lets judge him by wat he is now than wat he was before.

His experience never came of ne use to the team. His captaincy (some thing that might judge hiss experience) is not only bad but is Rubbish. He stopped Shahadat from bowling right after he had gotten a hattrick in the AWAY zim series, the match that we lost on the last bowl. furthermore he did not bowl tapost the full quota of his overs in the last WC while playing against Kenya. taposh bowled really well that day and instead of him he bowled Sanwar hussain at the end, Not even a regular bowler. So please don use the word experience. he is a burden to the team neways

[Farhad]

Originally Posted by HereWeGo
If one more time someone uses the word experience to defend mashud than i will fall sick..

Get this fact right... he just cant bat... even against the most benign attack in the world. World cup 2007 will be played in future and not in past so please lets judge him by wat he is now than wat he was before.

His experience never came of ne use to the team. His captaincy (some thing that might judge hiss experience) is not only bad but is Rubbish. He stopped Shahadat from bowling right after he had gotten a hattrick in the AWAY zim series, the match that we lost on the last bowl. furthermore he did not bowl tapost the full quota of his overs in the last WC while playing against Kenya. taposh bowled really well that day and instead of him he bowled Sanwar hussain at the end, Not even a regular bowler. So please don use the word experience. he is a burden to the team neways

You would have a point if Mushfiq actually performed....Thats the thing, hes been given quite a few chances now, and i dont see Mushfiq performing any better than Pilot did. Mushfiq might be a good batsman, but since he didnt score yet, we shouldnt experiment this close to the WC. The only wicket keeper we have that has already shown the potential to score high in an international match should be kept

[Mahmood]

Originally Posted by Orpheus
I don't see the logic in picking Sharif/taposh over Rasel though...

I remeber Whatmore mentioned he prefers allrounders over just bowler or batsman for ODI.

If Taposh/Sharif is close to Russell in Bowling yet bats much better, definitly a good choice for ODI.

[HereWeGo]

Originally Posted by BD4eva
You would have a point if Mushfiq actually performed....Thats the thing, hes been given quite a few chances now, and i dont see Mushfiq performing any better than Pilot did. Mushfiq might be a good batsman, but since he didnt score yet, we shouldnt experiment this close to the WC

Please don tell me that u think in ODI format Pilot will come of better use. Mushfiq is a very safe keeper also and definately a better batsmen. might not be really good but better than pilot...

[Fazal]

Originally Posted by HereWeGo
If one more time someone uses the word experience to defend mashud than i will fall sick..

Get this fact right... he just cant bat... even against the most benign attack in the world.

Forget about our national team and WC2007. Currently he is a liability even to his local team, Abahani. His batting was dragging the team down (before his injury).

The bad news is he will be back in Abahani for the next round (round 6) of local league.

[Fazal]

Originally Posted by kalpurush
Feel sad for Rasel
I think selectors played like Mehrab (no risk...play safe!)
Well, now have to wait to see If Nadif could make it !!

I don't know .... I thought at-last they are playing a lit-bit aggresively by choosing Mushfiq (over Pilot), Sharif &Tapash (over Rasel may be?), Tamim (0ver Rajin and Gullu).

I just hope they also select Nadif (over Ash).... but I know that's not going to happen.

[sadi]

Originally Posted by Fazal
The bad news is he will be back in Abahani for the next round (round 6) of local league.

Only as a batsman. So don't be surprised if you see him bat up the order and don't be surprised if Abahoni loses against Brothers.

[Fazal]

Originally Posted by sadi
Only as a batsman. So don't be surprised if you see him bat up the order and don't be surprised if Abahoni loses against Brothers.

‘It’s unfair to say at the moment who has been picked in the squad. The only thing I can tell you is that we have taken four seamers and both Tapash and Mohammad Sharif have been considered,’ said Faruque.

That pretty much spell out that Rasel is not in the team.

[sadi]

Originally Posted by Fazal
That pretty much spell out that Rasel is not in the team.

And Forhad?

[Fazal]

Originally Posted by sadi
And Forhad?

Most likely out. If he comes, he need to come as a batsman allrounder. It will be between Nadif & Forhad, even though Nadif is now only batsman. Ideally it should be between Ash, Nadif and Forhad for two slots.