Match Thread: Bangladesh vs South Africa, 1st Test, Mirpur (2007-08)

[al Furqaan]

Bismillahir Rahmanir Rahim

its a wee bit early, about 60 hours to go till toss, but i couldn't resist beating everyone to opening this thread. our historic first *real* Test victory match thread ().

Lets get em, Tiger!

Match Start Times:

2300 EST (i.e 11 PM, Thursday, February 21)
2000 PST (Feb 21)
0400 GMT (Friday, February 22)
1000 BST (Feb 22)

Test Squads:

Squad

South Africa Squad BCB XI Squad Bangladesh Squad Mohammad Ashraful (c) Mashrafe Mortaza (vc) Abdur Razzak Aftab Ahmed Habibul Bashar Junaid Siddique Mohammad Rafique Mushfiqur Rahim (wk) Rajin Saleh Sajidul Islam Shahadat Hossain Shahriar Nafees Shakib Al Hasan Tamim Iqbal

Squad

South Africa Squad BCB XI Squad Bangladesh Squad Graeme Smith (c) Ashwell Prince (vc) Hashim Amla Johan Botha Mark Boucher (wk) AB de Villiers Jean-Paul Duminy Jacques Kallis Neil McKenzie Morne Morkel Andre Nel Makhaya Ntini Robin Peterson Dale Steyn Paul Harris

[bdchamp20]

Go Tigers!!!

[bdchamp20]

Originally Posted by bdchamp20
Go Tigers!!!

Anyone with a free internet link plz post ASAP..or even better a television channel in the UK showing the match?

[sadi]

Wow...

[Nasif]

Originally Posted by al Furqaan
Bismillahir Rahmanir Rahim

its a wee bit early, about 60 hours to go till toss, but i couldn't resist beating everyone to opening this thread. our historic first *real* Test victory match thread ().

Lets get em, Tiger!

Format this into something good. Look rather plain without match details.

[al Furqaan]

Originally Posted by sadi
Wow...

we've had earlier match threads...by my recollection, we've had one aprox 72 hours premature.

[Dhurr]

Originally Posted by Nasif
Format this into something good. Look rather plain without match details.

Ditto.

[al Furqaan]

Originally Posted by Nasif
Format this into something good. Look rather plain without match details.

i dont know how to do all that fancy-smancy stuff

[akabir77]

only CHahida when bd bat bat for all day. 8/9 batsmen nea jodi pura din bat kortey na parey ta holey kisu boler nai...

[akabir77]

comon al f bhai didn't you get the memo? only Kal purush bhai got the permission to open match threads...

dilen to kufa lagaiya...

[Dhurr]

Keo phone tuilla Rajab bhai naile Nasif bhai re daken. Onara first post ta thik koira dibo.

Bangladesh zindabaad. Joy Bangla. Joy military.

[nasimul]

Wishing good batting performance by immature Tigers

[Zunaid]

Let the games begin!

[Tigers_eye]

Bismillah.

Asaad,
fancy stuff is nothing but copy-paste. Go to WC archive get the BD-SA match. Then use some neurons.

[SMHasan]

Al Fuqaan,

I like your last sentence "Lets get em! Tiger!"

I would call this series as a successful one if our batsman can show their willingness to stay in the wicket and fight. That's the only one thing I want from them. They should not throw their wickets away rather let the opposition work hard to get the wickets.

I don't want anything else in this test series. If anything comes along then it will be a bonus!

[mqumruz88]

Dear BC members and guest,
I am writing first time in this forum though I have been visiting BC forum for a long time. I can not stop writing now as the 1st test between Bangladesh VS South Africa Starts within 55 hours. The reason I am writing is that I have a feeling that Bangladesh will better in this test possible Draw because its seems to me that the attitude of the players have been slightly changed and now they want to stay on the crease as long as possible.If they can do it then there is a chance the can tie the test. As I went through the south africa bolwing I found that the pacers of south africa will not get anything from the pitch. If bangladesh win the toss then they should bat first and stay at the crease at least 1 and 1/2 days. The way they played the practice match match i think they are able to do that. only thing now,I am affraid of Asrafull as he plays most of his shots in the air. Even in test matches he tries to invent shots that is scary. I think our coach should have noticed that and he worked it out.
I wanted to write lot things about our team but no more for now. I wish that Our Team BANGLADESH will give us smile in the great month of bangali history.
Thanks Everyone for reading my first post

[Miraz]

Welcome mqumruz88 to BanglaCricket.

Thanks for your nice first post and enjoy your stay here.

Please do post more frequently in the future.

[akabir77]

welcome to BC mqumruz88. Great 1st post. Hope you keep your feelings upbeat even if we lose the game...

[Tigers_eye]

mqumruz88, welcome to BC. I agree with you on everything except the tieing part. We will give some "muli bash" to the SA. Win our second series. keep smiling!!

[AsifTheManRahman]

Let's spin our way to glory! Rafique mamu lungi pechan...

[Omio]

Bismillha..
amara tahole jitte jachhi..

[zahid]

Originally Posted by al Furqaan
Bismillahir Rahmanir Rahim

our historic first *real* Test victory match thread ().

Shopno dekha bhalo, kintu bastobey firey asha dorkar hoy majhey majhey

[BD Tigers]

Gotta have some faith to faith...yaaaa....

GO BD!!!

[nsd3]

I think our excitement level went too high after Fatullah practice match. Things might be completely opposite when SA shows their mettle on a pitch in Mirpur (very different from Fatallah's). Also historically our batsmen showed how they perish when it counts in real Test Matches.

Saying Go Bangladesh go is still appropriate. Talking about historic win even before the match starts, I guess, is a bit too eccentric.

[al Furqaan]

Originally Posted by nsd3
I think our excitement level went too high after Fatullah practice match. Things might be completely opposite when SA shows their mettle on a pitch in Mirpur (very different from Fatallah's). Also historically our batsmen showed how they perish when it counts in real Test Matches.

Saying Go Bangladesh go is still appropriate. Talking about historic win even before the match starts, I guess, is a bit too eccentric.

we know mate, this all in jest, well 90 % in jest. cuz with BD you never know.

and rafique can be a one man wrecking crew.