Our FIRST win this year. Who does the credit goes to ?!

[Out_You_Go]

So our first ever proper win this year, apart from beating associates at T-20.

Who would you credit this for?

[MHRAM]

Jeremy Fredericks

For keeping himself away from the com box

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[BD_TigerZ]

Originally Posted by MHRAM
Jeremy Fredericks

For keeping himself away from the com box

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This.

[ahnaf]

Most credit goes to taijul ofcourse,then shakib,riyad and mushy. Shahadat and mominul is also played well.

[Out_You_Go]

Oh wait! I forgot to add the most important option -

Batman - cuz the answer is always Batman! :3

[simon]

obhiasly Taijul , otherwise Sakib,Mushy & Ryad did equally well, Momin's fifty was useful on a low scoring match.

[BengaliPagol]

Mushfiqur's Keeping

[jeesh]

Originally Posted by MHRAM
Jeremy Fredericks

For keeping himself away from the com box

Posted via BC Mobile Edition

Top post bro! I dislike Zimbabwean commentators. Except Du Plesis all the others are extremely arrogant, biased.

Thank you Taijul, Shakib, Riyad, Mushfiq and Mominul for bailing us out. Credit goes in that order.

[5tonne]

Shakib and the home condition.

[Tigers_eye]

The Team.

[simon]

the Thread Opener
:p

[simon]

or may be the new comer Likhon's arrival changed our fate, as the saying goes :
কপালের লিখন না যায় খন্ডন

[Ashfaq]

Definitely the Pitch curator. We could challenge any team in this pitch, if we had a better batting lineup (Like the one we had in 2011-12).

[Fazal]

Individually Taijul.

As a group its the management.
They made enough bold decisions to barely win this game. How often you see our management even try to make sporting wicket? even it turned out to be a mine field, but the intension was the the right and bold one.

How often do you see they bring two brand new spinners in a spinner friendly pitch instead of sticking with the old and play it safe with the excuse of experience?

Recently there was lot of pressure not to select Riyad. Not only they stayed with him, they promoted him in the batting order and they were rewarded.

Bringing back Shahadat was not a popular decision, but it worked out ok for this game. Shahadat was not spectacular, be he did enough as a supporting role.
Not all was honky dory.

Selecting Shamsu and Hom was not a popular choice. Also popularity of Tamim is fading fast. They stayed with all of these three and pretty much it all of them failed. I am ok with that as long as they make some bold decision in 2nd test i.e. they tweak a bit... they cannot keep all three. Also I am not sure who they should have tried instead of these three. So from that aspect I can give them a free pass as long as they don't bring all three in 2nd TEST. They substitute player fail, that's ok...its better to try something new and fail than not do anything new and fail again.

I don't expect the management will make all the right choices or in a way make all fan favorite choices.... but I expect them to make some bold choices when its clear that status quo is not good enough for the team. Recently the management is exactly doing that.... making some bold and risky choices with some hits and some misses. I am 100% ok with that. Even though it was not my choice of 11 players, I can live with that as long as I see they make some bold choices .... that's what they are supposed to do... they are supposed to know their talent pool better than the fans (i.e. us) and they are supposed to give some break to some relatively unknown/young players (to the fans) some chance based on risk-reward analysis and team's need.

So individually its Taijul, collectively its the management who deserve some credit.

[Zeeshan]

Originally Posted by Ashfaq
Definitely the Pitch curator. We could challenge any team in this pitch, if we had a better batting lineup (Like the one we had in 2011-12).

This. Gamini Da.... see what i Did there?

[shaad]

How was Mushy's keeping in the 2nd innings? From the snippets I saw, his keeping in the 1st innings wasn't that bad.

[mufi_02]

Originally Posted by shaad
How was Mushy's keeping in the 2nd innings? From the snippets I saw, his keeping in the 1st innings wasn't that bad.

he was decent in 2nd innings. took the simple catches.

[Eshen]

I was actually impressed with Mushfiq and Shuvo's (1st slip) understanding with each other (during 2nd innings) who should take the which catch. In the first innings, Mushfiq messed up a catch that could have been taken by first slip.

[meazz1]

Credit goes to Zim for letting us win!!
101 runs for 7 wkts.
Really?

[kalpurush]

Originally Posted by Fazal
Individually Taijul.

As a group its the management.
They made enough bold decisions to barely win this game. How often you see our management even try to make sporting wicket? even it turned out to be a mine field, but the intension was the the right and bold one.

Originally Posted by Eshen
From Hathuri's interview, it sounds like Gamini (curator) did not deliver what Hathuri was expecting (a pitch with even bounce, not so seamer friendly). This is not the first time Gamini made a pitch contrary to the demand of team management. May be it's time for BCB to start looking for another expert in this field.

^^^ sorry mamu!

[affan_ayan]

Here is how I see:

Even it was a bowling pitch, but Taijul was superb in the second innings. First innings, Jubair and Shakib did equally very good job. Shahadat played his part as well.

Taijul A+
Jubair + Shakib A
Shahadat A-

Batting:
We do not have any complete test batsman besides Mushfiq. He is the best test batsman at the moment between the two sides.

Mushfiq - A++
Taijul A+
Riad A
Muminul/Shakib A-

Overall influence in the game - Shakib the superman. Without Shakib BD couldn't take the pressure of a such a match when they were even more nervous due to their recent downhill