Many Congratulations to Zimbabwe!

Yameen · #1 January 10, 2009, 05:42 AM

I must give my heartiest congratulations on behalf of a Bangladeshi fan for the way Zimbabwe played with high spirits and great endevour and you guys truly deserve it!

Its a sad point for a Bangladeshi but lets not get our hopes down, it happens in cricket. This is a true blessing for Zimbabwe after the turbulent times they have been going through and I hope you enjoy this as much as we Bangladeshis used to enjoy pulling out wins back in the day especially this day in 2005 when we beat u guys to win our first test.

Bangladesh will come back, lets not be disheartened as Zimbabwe are an improving team with the 3 scares they gave Sri Lanka in their last series as evident from their performance today.

All praise to Zimbabwe and wishing you a continuation of your success! (ofcourse not against us

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Rifat · #2 January 10, 2009, 05:44 AM

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Originally Posted by Yameen
I must give my heartiest congratulations on behalf of a Bangladeshi fan for the way Zimbabwe played with high spirits and great endevour and you guys truly deserve it!

Its a sad point for a Bangladeshi but lets not get our hopes down, it happens in cricket. This is a true blessing for Zimbabwe after the turbulent times they have been going through and I hope you enjoy this as much as we Bangladeshis used to enjoy pulling out wins back in the day especially this day in 2005 when we beat u guys to win our first test.

Bangladesh will come back, lets not be disheartened as Zimbabwe are an improving team with the 3 scares they gave Sri Lanka in their last series as evident from their performance today.

All praise to Zimbabwe and wishing you a continuation of your success! (ofcourse not against us

)

**Nasif** · #3 January 10, 2009, 05:46 AM

Today's rate is:
1 Taka = 142811.18 Zim Dollar!

Zimbabwe itself is in ruins; yet their cricket team is shining. Mugabe has practically looted the whole country; and made people's life miserable; and yet their cricket team is shining like bright star.

I salute the Zim team for lion's heart!

mijanur · #4 January 10, 2009, 05:48 AM

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Originally Posted by Nasif
Today's rate is:
1 Taka = 142811.18 Zim Dollar!

Zimbabwe itself is in ruins; yet their cricket team is shining. Mugabe has practically looted the whole country; and made people's life miserable; and yet their cricket team is shining like bright star.

I salute the Zim team for lion's heart!

lollllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllll lllllllll

: floor:

look at that rate lolololololol

Yasin. · #5 January 10, 2009, 05:49 AM

Totally out played us. I was expecting nothing less than a 4-0 thumping by Bangladesh. Thank you for bringing fans like me back to the ground.

The determination shown by you players is second to none. With only a handful of oppoturnities to play against the big boys of cricket, you all make sure that the oppoturnities are graabed. You might lack a good infrastructure, you might lack talented players compared to the higher ranked teams - but you all have a great team spirit and even greater determination.

Congratulations. You deserved it, you earned it.

Yasin. · #6 January 10, 2009, 05:51 AM

Didnt see this thread and opened my own. My bad. Mods, care to merge?

zimfan · #7 January 10, 2009, 06:00 AM

cheers guys, dont you agree that its nice to have competive games agaisnt simliar sides rather than being thrashed by better sides?

tonoy · #8 January 10, 2009, 06:02 AM

Hats off to the Zimbabwean team. I hope that the defeat they give us bring some major change which is required.

maehara · #9 January 10, 2009, 06:08 AM

We're enjoying that winning feeling - it doesn't happen often.

But it could have been better for us - our bowlers had to cover for a poor display with the bat again. If it weren't for Chigumbura, we would have been in trouble, I think...

tiger_club · #10 January 10, 2009, 06:18 AM

I said before BD should take this match seriously.. they didn't do their homework and now paying for it.. thanks to our beloved dumbest captain Ashraful for this wonderful new year gift but don't worry, our players have learnt their lesson..they will come back hard and there won't be no mercy..

karimjay. · #11 January 10, 2009, 06:59 AM

Prosper is helping his nations cricket prosper.

zing.

Warlock · #12 January 10, 2009, 07:21 AM

Many congrats to Zimbabwe. You guys deserve it!

zainab · #13 January 10, 2009, 08:00 AM

Congratulations to Zimbabwe. I had a strong feeling that they will win., so it was no surprise.They are hungry for wins and are hoping that they play better teams, their country may be in ruins,they do not have proper infrastructure and enough money, but they still continue to play and are becoming better even with good players leaving to play county cricket in England.

These players gave SL a good fight, and this win might even give them a win against SL, they could even win this series. Sad that BD will be out of the finals even on home turf.

Alas! there is still that problem of concentration and urgency to win in the BD team. Sad that they are not playing to their potential. Riyad should have been given a chance here. I feel sorry for JS that after nearly one and a half years with them, they still revert back to ther old ways and cannot play a proper game of cricket even though they have all the infrastructure and facilities, and are well paid by the board.

mahbubH · #14 January 10, 2009, 08:41 AM

Congrats Zimbo... great performance... keep it up.

maehara · #15 January 10, 2009, 08:45 AM

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Originally Posted by karimjay.
Prosper is helping his nations cricket prosper.

zing.

First game in a while where he hasn't done anything as captain that was open to criticism. About time, too...

detroitpagla · #16 January 10, 2009, 08:45 AM

bd suckkkkks can't believe we lost against Zim....Ash should kill him self
i'm tired of BD cricket now and will not follow bd cricket untill our team gets better and we have players who knows how to play

maehara · #17 January 10, 2009, 08:53 AM

C'mon, you can't give up on BD yet - part of being a fan is dealing with the losses as well as the wins. Trust me on this.

BANFAN · #18 January 10, 2009, 09:21 AM

Congrats Zim. Very well played.

BD was thinking it to be a walk in the park. They haven;t followed Zim cricket in recent times. Hope they take lessons fast.

nadim 98 · #19 January 10, 2009, 11:27 AM

also congratutlation for Zimbabwean fans.......ur team deserve it guys. gd luck with ur team.

Rabz · #20 January 10, 2009, 11:46 AM

Congrats to the Zimbabwe team for winning this match.
Make hay while the sun shines.

See you boys soon again.

zimfan · #21 January 10, 2009, 12:16 PM

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Originally Posted by maehara
C'mon, you can't give up on BD yet - part of being a fan is dealing with the losses as well as the wins. Trust me on this.

yeah we know being zim fans you have to stick with your team

6 years ago i saw andy flower score a hundred agasint england in harrare, now all the best players at the time have retired and hardly anyone will play us

but today gave me so much pleasure and hope we can continue

al Furqaan · #22 January 10, 2009, 03:13 PM

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Originally Posted by Nasif
Today's rate is:
1 Taka = 142811.18 Zim Dollar!

Zimbabwe itself is in ruins; yet their cricket team is shining. Mugabe has practically looted the whole country; and made people's life miserable; and yet their cricket team is shining like bright star.

I salute the Zim team for lion's heart!

just switch "mugabe" with "khaleda" and you have our situation almost. the only difference is we have a "dictatorship" of the people, by the people, against themselves. we don't have the ethnic or racial strife, an HIV epidemic, or inflation at that level...but clearly, as was proven yesterday, they don't have much of an impact on the cricket field.

i mean Sri Lanka is surviving a full scale civil war to be a top 6 team.

as long as the XI on the field have peace of mind, thats all you need. i'm sure zimbabwe's current infrastructure is not that much poorer than ours, and may even be better. and of course their boys show more application.

Rifat · #23 January 10, 2009, 05:33 PM

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Originally Posted by al Furqaan
just switch "mugabe" with "khaleda" and you have our situation almost. the only difference is we have a "dictatorship" of the people, by the people, against themselves. we don't have the ethnic or racial strife, an HIV epidemic, or inflation at that level...but clearly, as was proven yesterday, they don't have much of an impact on the cricket field.

i mean Sri Lanka is surviving a full scale civil war to be a top 6 team.

as long as the XI on the field have peace of mind, thats all you need. i'm sure zimbabwe's current infrastructure is not that much poorer than ours, and may even be better. and of course their boys show more application.

good point. i am very curious though, wasn't it this summer that Ashraful took a meditation course? after that his ODI batting improved but inconsistency still remained a large problem and too much excitement, getting carried away, irresponsible batting, same old pechal we BC fans of new and old have been tired of typing for about half a decade!

PlanetPak · #24 January 10, 2009, 06:13 PM

Outstanding performance

There is plenty of talent in their bowling line up and batting will also get better when they get Taylor back

maehara · #25 January 10, 2009, 06:22 PM

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Originally Posted by PlanetPak
There is plenty of talent in their bowling line up and batting will also get better when they get Taylor back

Current batting lineup has the talent - they just don't have any sort of consistency, you can never be sure that any of them will perform on the day. For every good performance, there's another where they all collapse in a heap and leave us with a score that can't be defended.

Taylor's return would help a little, as he's more consistent than most (but not immune to the Zimbabwe Collapse) - but he's just one man, and isn't enough to save us on his own without support from the others, and that often just isn't there.