World cup is on its way with a great start. We already saw W.I beating PAK comfortably with their mediacore bowling. Today, we have some interesting match between Canada and Kenya. I am betting on Kenya to win this one. They bowled out Canada for a low score of 199. Australia is taking on its first match in this world cup with Scotland. My guesses, they have to win with a great margin.
Most of all, we all are eagerly waiting to see our boys in the first match to be played with Bangladesh on Mar 17th. I know Indian team is totally prepared to rock and roll in this world cup. We hope to start our tally with a convincing and comfortable victory over bangladesh. But I am just bit worried about the way Bangladesh is been playing all these days.
As the other blogger(Naked Cricket) mentioned in his blog
http://nakedcricket.sulekha.com/blog/post/2007/03/the-a-player-in-a-b-team-bangla-v-s-ind.htm, they have some good players on their side.
Most of all, we all are eagerly waiting to see our boys in the first match to be played with Bangladesh on Mar 17th. I know Indian team is totally prepared to rock and roll in this world cup. We hope to start our tally with a convincing and comfortable victory over bangladesh. But I am just bit worried about the way Bangladesh is been playing all these days.
As the other blogger(Naked Cricket) mentioned in his blog
http://nakedcricket.sulekha.com/blog/post/2007/03/the-a-player-in-a-b-team-bangla-v-s-ind.htm, they have some good players on their side.
Do we have to be concerned a bit and not to take them for granted ? I guess so. They a have the small history on their side to upset big teams. Lets back up a bit and take a look at the warm-up matches they played.
They took on New Zealand in their first warm-up match. The Asian minnows pulled off the first shock of the ICC CWC by beating the Kiwis by two wickets in a warm-up game on Tuesday leaving Fleming to carry out an immediate inquest on what went wrong for his highly-touted team.
New Zealand captain Stephen Fleming, who came here celebrating a whitewash of world champions Australia, admitted they had been brought down to earth by Bangladesh. He said,
"It was a poor performance," said Fleming who had a miserable day with the bat failing to get of the mark.
"Nothing went right. We batted poorly at the beginning (the Kiwis were 34-4 at one stage) and did not assess conditions that well. We knew it was going to be tricky at the start and we fell flat on our faces.
Pace bowler Mashrafe Mortaza proved to be the hero with bat and ball along with left-arm spinner Abdur Razzak. For Bangladesh, it was a morale-boost to have a win ahead of their first round matches. It don't matter whether they won in warm-up match or actual league match. Its a good win thats all it counts.
They took on New Zealand in their first warm-up match. The Asian minnows pulled off the first shock of the ICC CWC by beating the Kiwis by two wickets in a warm-up game on Tuesday leaving Fleming to carry out an immediate inquest on what went wrong for his highly-touted team.
New Zealand captain Stephen Fleming, who came here celebrating a whitewash of world champions Australia, admitted they had been brought down to earth by Bangladesh. He said,
"It was a poor performance," said Fleming who had a miserable day with the bat failing to get of the mark.
"Nothing went right. We batted poorly at the beginning (the Kiwis were 34-4 at one stage) and did not assess conditions that well. We knew it was going to be tricky at the start and we fell flat on our faces.
Pace bowler Mashrafe Mortaza proved to be the hero with bat and ball along with left-arm spinner Abdur Razzak. For Bangladesh, it was a morale-boost to have a win ahead of their first round matches. It don't matter whether they won in warm-up match or actual league match. Its a good win thats all it counts.
Next they played with SCOTLAND. They sent them spinning to a seven-wicket defeat to make it two wins out of two. The slow left-armers Abdur Razzak (3-25) stuck again in this second match in succession along with Mohammad Rafique (2-16) who proved to be good.
They restricted Scotland to th mere 152-9 off their 50 overs at the 3Ws Oval before Bangladesh stormed to victory with the best part of 16 overs left thanks to an unbeaten 57 from Captain played a very responsible cricket played to bring the team back to win this match.
Overall, they have a good improved and balanced team under Dav Whatmoore as the coach. They have good pace and spin bowler as their main arsnel support by an improved batting line up.
Being said all that, I know we(Indians) are also a greatly balanced team as the coach GREG CHAPPELL mentioned. May be we shouldn't be much worried about this minows beating us but at the same time we shouldn't take them for granted.
This tiny fire ant squad can really pinch hard which might hurt us in the long run. So at first place, India shouldn't give them a chance to think about winning. am I right ?
This tiny fire ant squad can really pinch hard which might hurt us in the long run. So at first place, India shouldn't give them a chance to think about winning. am I right ?
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