Match Thread: Bangladesh vs. Sri Lanka. 1st ODI, Aug 31, 2005 - BD in SL 2005

[Zunaid]

Date: Wednesday, August 31, 2005
Time: 4:00 AM UTC | 12:00 AM EDT | 10:00 AM Bangladesh Time.

GMT now is:

Location: Sinhalese Sports Club - Colombo

Weather:
Scattered Clouds. High: 83° F / 28° C Wind West 17 mph / 28 km/h.
Forecast

Bangladesh Probables : (from)

• * Habibul Bashar
• + Khaled Mashud (Pilot)
• Mohammad Ashraful
• Javed Omar (Gullu)
• Rajin Saleh
• Tushar Imran
• Aftab Ahmed
• Shahriar Nafees Ahmed (Abir)
• Mohammad Rafique
• Khaled Mahmud (Sujon)
• Manjural Islam (Rana)
• Nazmul Hossain
• Abdur Razzaq (Raj)
• Mashrafe Mortaza (Kowshik)
• Syed Russel
• Tapash Baisya  (flown in to replace injured Mashrafe)

Sri Lanka Probables: (from)

• *Marvan Atapattu
• Sanath Jayasuriya
• +Kumar Sangakkara
• Mahela Jayawardene
• Thilan Samaraweera
• Tillakaratne Dilshan
• Chaminda Vaas
• Farveez Maharoof
• Rangana Herath
• Muttiah Muralitharan
• Lasith Malinga
• Russel Arnold
• Gayan Wijekoon
• Dilhara Fernando
• Shantha Kalavitigoda

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Good Luck Tigers!



Edited on, August 30, 2005, 3:32 PM GMT, by Zobair.
Reason: fixed the EDT time. should be 12 am not pm.

Edited on, August 30, 2005, 6:55 PM GMT, by RazabQ.
Reason: mod.content fixed multimedia thread url

[al Furqaan]

wow. this must be the earliest match thread ever.

good to see that i am the first poster in it.

BD will win

[Zunaid]

I was giddy with anticipation

[cricman]

I like the way you used the BC profiles for our players, Plus you used HTML so i wouldn't be able to understand the code.

Nice JOB.

Edited on, August 30, 2005, 3:58 AM GMT, by cricman.

[Zunaid]

I decided to put in the BC profiles to encourage our members and fans to help us keep the content updated.

I am sure we are behind.

[Beamer]

We will fight hard tomorrow. I expect a good game by our Tigers.

[ReckmyBack]

It's about 23 hours left still . We are not gonna win anyway whatever we try :P

[Beamer]

That's some spirit reckmyback! I don't mind losing unless without a fight. We will do well in this series..Have faith.

[ReckmyBack]

Originally posted by Beamer
We will fight hard tomorrow. I expect a good game by our Tigers.

We can't give any fight unless our bowling is gonna get improved and our batsmen play like an odi not like a test match as Rajin Saleh did in the practice match .


Edited on, August 30, 2005, 5:34 AM GMT, by ReckmyBack.

[cricket_pagol]

The BC profiles are pretty neatly organized... well done!!!!

[Mueid]

yeah. the profiles are interesting. keep up the good work

[ReckmyBack]

Weather forecast is not good for tomorrow's match . Check the weather websites .

Weather Forecast

Thurderstorm is on tomorrow at Colombo .






Edited on, August 30, 2005, 8:31 AM GMT, by ReckmyBack.

[pilot fan]

i fear for us without mortaza

[Hasib]

RMB...remember we got flogged against England yet came back to win one versus Australia??

[ejaj_a]

I believe BD will show improve performance on their batting department. But I got doubt about our bowling strength and to make things worst Mashrafe is injured. I can sense BD will comprehensively beat by SL. I wish I can be wrong and pull out at least a single surprise win!

[pilot fan]

iwhy is nefees ahmed not playing in his last odi he scored 74 agaist austrilia so why drop him for a slow jo and an inconsistant rajin

[wibble2005]

http://www.sportingstreams.com/sport/

Just got confimation that is 100% on.

Starts at 0500BST (0400GMT)

[oracle]

Anyone know if Tapash arrived on time? If he is opening bowler tomorrow i hope he gets enough sleep. The flight is via Bangkok- not short. Worried about our bowling.

[Ishtylish cricketer]

Taposh hopefully won't repeat the same performance vs. Srilanka as he did against England. I know people have bad days but that was beyond bad... somehow I doubt he will get picked. If he does than you know coach Whatmore and Bashar are in his favour.

[Ehsan]

Originally posted by Zunaid
Date: Wednesday, August 31, 2005
Time: 12:00 PM EDT

Is that Eastern time doc? Shouldn't it be 12:00 AM?

[PoorFan]

Bahsar needs to win the toss first and decide to bat, rest will be fine if Chacha is not bowling.

[rudro]

Originally posted by Ehsan

Is that Eastern time doc? Shouldn't it be 12:00 AM?

I think so. It should be 12:00AM EDT

[sunniath]

i was looking forward to see both masri and russel in action together.if russel is as accurate and economical as people say, it would have been wonderful to see both masri and russel frustrating opponents.it would also probably make our spinners more effective if the opening bowlers keep things quiet.anyway,hopefully, masri will come back before the odi series is over and we will see some good resistance from our bowlers.

[r56hg]

I was dreaming last nite and my dream was something like :
Srilanke : 347/6
Chaca : 8-0-102-1 (1w,2n)
Bangladesh: 207

Ha, Allah please protect us from Chaca

[deshpremi]

Originally posted by r56hg
I was dreaming last nite and my dream was something like :
Srilanke : 347/6
Chaca : 8-0-102-1 (1w,2n)
Bangladesh: 207

Ha, Allah please protect us from Chaca

that wasn't a dream,
that was a NIGHTMARE.
13 hours, 5 minutes and 23 seconds.....