Group A First Round - Bangladesh, Afghanistan, Nepal, Hong Kong

[grecian]

Atherton is looking rather fetching in that blue shirt, sets off his eyes.

#never confused#

 

[MW1304]

Also the idea of an entire T20 tournament being played on dustbowls that turn square is remarkably appealing to me. Love a good bunsen on occasion.

I'd bloody love to watch a whole t20 tournament with a really unfair balance given to ball over bat, would be hilarious but interesting to see the tables turned so drastically.

 

[Prince EWS]

I'm pretty sure this will be Nepal and Hong Kong's senior debuts on live Australian television. I don't know why that makes me so excited as I've seen them both play before through other means, but I think it's pretty awesome.

 

[Dan]

Australia are comfortably favs with the bookies. Wonder if that will change if pitches continue to take turn.

Honestly, if Bangladesh had another good T20 batsman and a serviceable fast bowler to partner Mashrafe, I reckon they'd be very competitive here. Well, it would help if Gazi was any good at T20.

Tamim, Anamul, Nasir, Shakib, Mushfiqr, <good T20 bat>, Sabbir, Marmadoola, Mashrafe, Razzak, <serviceable T20 pacer> looks pretty strong on a turning deck, IMO.

 

[Dan]

I'm pretty sure this will be Nepal and Hong Kong's senior debuts on live Australian television. I don't know why that makes me so excited as I've seen them both play before through other means, but I think it's pretty awesome.

501, 502 or 503?

 

[Prince EWS]

501, 502 or 503?

503 my good man. They've had one big long extended coverage of it since the Bangladesh-Afghanistan game started which is far more than I was anticipating. One of my biggest fears about the whole pre-tournament qualification tournament idea was that it wouldn't be televised here.

 

[Prince EWS]

Pitch is so green! Hope brockley's still watching.

 

[eroticfishcake]

Green pitch for the hypocrites

 

[Prince EWS]

Oh yay, Danny Morrison...

 

[Prince EWS]

The standard of fast bowling in associate teams has exponentially risen in the last five years. Lightyears ahead of where Bangladesh were when they got Test status on that front; in fact a few associates have better fast bowling stocks than Bangladesh do even to this day really.

 

[Prince EWS]

This is terrible commentary from Manjrekar.

 

[Prince EWS]

Hong Kong's third and fourth seamers have both clocked 140km/h now. Bit raw but so much to work with.

 

[Prince EWS]

Second time watching him now and Khadka looks a class bat to me. Ranji teams should be watching.

 

[Prince EWS]

Shouldn't pull though..

 

[Prince EWS]

Hong Kong's catching really is laughably bad. They haven't got near a lot of these skied balls that full members teams would be swallowing easily.

 

[Daemon]

Wow Irfan Ahmed's got so much quicker

 

[Prince EWS]

Mention of the team hat trick, coms... ?

 

[Prince EWS]

Make that a team double hat trick.

Four wickets and a run in the last four balls.

 

[Prince EWS]

Gauchan has such a vicious arm ball; no-one's picking it and it's moving a mile.

 

[BeeGee]

Congrats to Nepal. First time I've watched them play. Awesome.