BD team relax before match 2

**Mahmood** · #1 July 2, 2003, 10:58 AM

From CricInfo

Bangladesh took a day off from cricket, visiting a Gold Coast theme park on Wednesday, a day before the start of a three-day match against the Australian Cricket Academy (ACA). The opposition will be even more challenging than the Queensland Academy of Sport, against whom Bangladesh lost by 29 runs in the tour opener. The ACA line-up has four players with first-class experience: Scott Meuleman, Luke Ronchi and Peter Worthington have all played for Western Australia, while Mark Cleary has represented South Australia.

Dav Whatmore, the Bangladesh coach, announced that he was looking for allround improvement. "We're looking to improve in every department and get accustomed to the conditions as best as we can and just to play some good percentage stuff."

Bangladesh will play two Tests and three one-day internationals on their month-long tour. The first Test starts on July 18 at Darwin.

James90 · #2 July 2, 2003, 05:52 PM

In case you don't know the Cricket Acadamy is for the youthful, up and coming crickets. All of the cricketers in the acadamy will play first-class cricket at one time or another. The only ppl to watch out for are Muelleman and Cleary and i'm going to argue with the article above saying that it is not as strong as the Qld Acadamy side just yet