27-29 June 2003 - BAN vs Queensland - Tour Match - 3-Dayer

[rafiq]

has anyone noticed 12 men are being used in this match - what is the deal with that? I was wondering how bangladesh's batting was so stacked (at least on paper) and realized we have an extra batsman (so one of the bowlers won't bat or what?). It's 57/3 and there are several batsmen to go - this is very strange.

One thing Whatmore can analyze is the pulled shots. Ashraful and Bashar kept pulling 4s and 6s until Bashar pulled one too many. Ashraful said something in the papers about not pulling or playing shots until he got to 25. Right now he has the quiet Al-Shahriar Rokon on the other end, these two will probably go in a blaze of glory....