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Originally Posted by BengaliPagol
I don't see why Mehedi can't bat higher up and have Hider at 8 cos he can give the ball a good whack.
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Hider shouldn't bat any higher than 9. Just giving it a wack isn't good enough to bat in the top 8. The #8 should be a guy who can average 20 at a good strike rate (90+ at minimum, 100+ ideally). Miraz has enough quality to average 20, but his strike rate is on the low side. Still he's young and has a lot of potential.
I'd like to see Hider and one of the young seamers like Mishu (took BD list A record 8 wicket haul last season) and Shoriful (without Taskin, we need a tall guy who can get the ball to bounce) for WC 2019.
Fizz, Mash, Rubel are the obvious first choice seamers but with 14 games we need a lot of depth for our injury prone quicks. Hider, Mishu, and Shoriful should complete our 6 pacers for the WC squad.
That leaves 9 spots for batsmen:
Tamim, Shakib, Mushy, Riyad take 4 spots.
Liton, Miraz are almost certainly in leaving 3 spots open.
A 3rd WK is probably overkill so that rules Nurul out. We probably might want to take another specialist spinner just in case...I would gamble on Rishad (or Jubair) as all the good teams have a wrist spinner and we freakin need one.
2 spots left for Imrul, Mosaddek, Shanto, Sabbir, and Soumya to compete for. Maybe even toss Nasir and Mominul in there as well since we almost always have a surprise pick for the WC.
Exciting times if most squad guess comes true.