Match Thread: Bangladesh vs New Zealand, 1st Test at Chittagong; October 9th to 13th, 2013

[cricbook]

Originally Posted by Jadukor
The 2010 NZ team was poor at playing spin but the current team drew the Test Series in Sri Lanka by winning the 2nd Test at Colombo. It would be a huge gamble to expect an out of form Shakib to find form and run through this NZ batting order. The only positive thing is Guptil is injured which means our major worries our limited to Taylor and KS Williamson on the batting front.

I also don't understand why we are playing on a pitch the home side has never played on

I am having the same questions ....??? Why we r playing in a new pitch or bd just saying??? It could be spin mine for spiners... Bd playing a naughty here.. hope we win no matter what is happening..!

[cricbook]

Who is showing live in usa??? Im sure cricinfo not showing... But do u guys know abt any link... So i can be out of tenshion...

[Saifulsohel]

Weather is getting better.

[Saifulsohel]

Originally Posted by Jadukor
The 2010 NZ team was poor at playing spin but the current team drew the Test Series in Sri Lanka by winning the 2nd Test at Colombo. It would be a huge gamble to expect an out of form Shakib to find form and run through this NZ batting order. The only positive thing is Guptil is injured which means major worries are limited to Taylor and KS Williamson on the batting front.

nz will miss southee also who was there best bowler that series.

[Gowza]

Originally Posted by Saifulsohel
nz will miss southee also who was there best bowler that series.

Wagner, boult and whichever other pacers they play will probably still be able to do the job, are good bowlers, I'd say at least on par with southee.

[BD_TigerZ]

Dont be stupid and play riyad at 8. We need to play 3 spinners. Riyads 30s at 8 wont win us jack. 3 fers from lala will.

[cricket_king]

I still cannot believe we are "apparently" going to bat down to #8 with Mullah. One of our biggest weaknesses in tests is that we can't take 20 wickets. We're approaching this match with a damage-control mindset from the start. It's so frustrating to see the same old mistakes over and over again. Why do our players and selectors consistently fail to develop some balls and look to win a match? Freaking hell.

[Jadukor]

Originally Posted by BD_TigerZ
Dont be stupid and play riyad at 8. We need to play 3 spinners. Riyads 30s at 8 wont win us jack. 3 fers from lala will.

Originally Posted by cricket_king
I still cannot believe we are "apparently" going to bat down to #8 with Mullah. One of our biggest weaknesses in tests is that we can't take 20 wickets. We're approaching this match with a damage-control mindset from the start. It's so frustrating to see the same old mistakes over and over again. Why do our players and selectors consistently fail to develop some balls and look to win a match? Freaking hell.

Agree with you guys both

[kalpurush]

Originally Posted by miraz
obayed bhai, nice animation .

feeling a bit worried about the match now.

I may sound a bit superstitious, but we usually lose when you open a very fancy match thread. I hope on this occasion we will have better luck.

May be you should open simpler match threads.

প্রিয় মিরাজ ভাই,

এত ভাবছেন কেন?
এই যুগের ছেলেরা আমাদের মত অত মেন্দা না, দেখবেন বেশ ভাল খেলবে...
ভাল খেলেই আমরা জিতব, ইনশাল্লাহ ।
বিশ্বাস রাখেন।

অনেক শুভ-কামনা রইল...

[Antora]

Two days to go

[Purbasha T]

আহা! কতদিন পর... চা-কফি রেডি তো, অ্যাঁ?!!

Originally Posted by MHRAM
and then GB will say: "my grandmother can bat better than them Kiwi batsman"

Originally Posted by Zeeshan
phew for a moment my self-centered ax thought it was me..... ^^^^^ phew

I can imagine, so did I.

[Purbasha T]

ইসস, এদ্দিন পর ক্রিকেটে ফিরলাম.. পিলিয়ার-টিলিয়ারদের নামধাম তো সব ভুইলা গেছি মনে হচ্ছে। এই সাকিব পোলাটা কে, নতুন না কি?

[Nadim]

Originally Posted by Purbasha T
ইসস, এদ্দিন পর ক্রিকেটে ফিরলাম.. পিলিয়ার-টিলিয়ারদের নামধাম তো সব ভুইলা গেছি মনে হচ্ছে। এই সাকিব পোলাটা কে, নতুন না কি?

Guess Who is here...





Amago Mominul bhai

[BD_TigerZ]

Ondhokar series coming up.

[reyme]

Originally Posted by cricket_king
I still cannot believe we are "apparently" going to bat down to #8 with Mullah. One of our biggest weaknesses in tests is that we can't take 20 wickets. We're approaching this match with a damage-control mindset from the start. It's so frustrating to see the same old mistakes over and over again. Why do our players and selectors consistently fail to develop some balls and look to win a match? Freaking hell.

Exactly my point. Our biggest weakness are not our players, rather it has been the team management, team selectors, poor coaching and poor captaincy in terms of poor strategy and poor gameplan than killed us over and over and over again. It's a fatal mistake to go with 1 spinner. Shakib is totally out of form and he won't have much impact. We need 2 solid full time spinners at least. Pacers are just a waste. New Zealand will belt our pacers and will score freely from the get go and Myshy will help them out by sending all 9 fielders guarding the boundary line.

Seriously we need 3 spinners on a serious spin track to run through kiwis batting lineup. Until our selectors and coach can't come out of their dumb and dumber mindset we will never win any test. And we better win a test now otherwise our test status seriously at risk!

[Zeeshan]

Suddenly missing the Rajib here in this thread....

[reyme]

Originally Posted by BD_TigerZ
Dont be stupid and play riyad at 8. We need to play 3 spinners. Riyads 30s at 8 wont win us jack. 3 fers from lala will.

That's why we can't win and we will never win a test against a top 8 team. Our cricket management is outright dumb and stupid.

[reyme]

Learn from India. How to win a test match or draw one by playing with your strength. Make a pure spin track and play with multiple spinners. That's how they did it in the past with a very ordinary cricket team. You can't beat AUS, ENG and NZ with pace. You beat them with 3 solid spinners.

[M.H.Rubel]

Lot of us here are worried about number of 8 batsman in playing 11. Apparently it seems a bad decision but if we can make a good turning wicket,it will be good I think. In a turning wicket 2 spinners+ Riyad is a more than enough enough option. In that case a an all rounder like Riyad at #8 is not a bad option.

[Tiger444]

Originally Posted by reyme
That's why we can't win and we will never win a test against a top 8 team. Our cricket management is outright dumb and stupid.

Coach Ian also is supporting the 8 man batting lineup. So it's not only our team management thinking this.

[AsifTheManRahman]

Originally Posted by Tiger444
Coach Ian also is supporting the 8 man batting lineup. So it's not only our team management thinking this.

So I think the plan is to win the toss, bat first and score 650, then draw the match. Good plan, but I hope they have a plan B, say, in case we lose the toss.

Nah bhais, ebar mone hoy NZ amader hariyei dibe. Ebar mone hoy aar parlam na.

[Tiger444]

Originally Posted by reyme
Learn from India. How to win a test match or draw one by playing with your strength. Make a pure spin track and play with multiple spinners. That's how they did it in the past with a very ordinary cricket team. You can't beat AUS, ENG and NZ with pace. You beat them with 3 solid spinners.

Actually India thought that would work against England by putting "raging turners" and this past series, it backfired because England spinners and batsmen outplayed India's.

Most likely we'll see a typical Bangladeshi pitch in Chittagong that's slow and low with a bit of turn. We play the best on these tracks and it should trouble the Kiwis since they are used to playing on faster and bouncier wickets.

[Tiger444]

Originally Posted by AsifTheManRahman
So I think the plan is to win the toss, bat first and score 650, then draw the match. Good plan, but I hope they have a plan B, say, in case we lose the toss.

Nah bhais, ebar mone hoy NZ amader hariyei dibe. Ebar mone hoy aar parlam na.

It seems the plan is to bat NZ out of the match and then try to spin the batsmen out on the 4th or 5th days.

They probably feel with 7 batsmen they won't be able to achieve that but with 8 they could.

Like others have said, that would make our chance to put more runs on the board but at the same time it'll put more pressure on Shakib and Riyad to share the load of being the 4th bowler. So playing a 8 man batting lineup, we have to hope Shakib and Riyad take about the same amount of wickets as Razzak would.

[Purbasha T]

Originally Posted by nadim 98
guess who is here...

Amago mominul bhai

এ্যালো নাদিম, কেম' 'ছো?

[AsifTheManRahman]

Originally Posted by Tiger444
It seems the plan is to bat NZ out of the match and then try to spin the batsmen out on the 4th or 5th days.

They probably feel with 7 batsmen they won't be able to achieve that but with 8 they could.

Like others have said, that would make our chance to put more runs on the board but at the same time it'll put more pressure on Shakib and Riyad to share the load of being the 4th bowler. So playing a 8 man batting lineup, we have to hope Shakib and Riyad take about the same amount of wickets as Razzak would.

I think the plan is for Shakib to pick 7 wickets, Riyad to pick 1 and the three pacers to somehow fluke the other two. I do hope they have a plan B, say, in case Riyad doesn't get that one wicket.