Bangladesh: A quest for glory. [Mediocre ICC 2005 tale]

[Somerset]

Great job with such an inexperienced side, almost could've been a 2-0 series win for the Bangladeshis if England hadn't managed to hold on in their second innings on both occasions.

 

[dro87]

In 5 years time your team will be able to win every game!!!

 

[NZTailender]

In 5 years time your team will be able to win every game!!!

I hope so In 5 years i hope to have a few of these young pups averaging over 50 with the bat and a couple under 25 with the ball...

 

[NZTailender]

Lineups for the first ODI between Bangladesh and England.

Bangladesh XI
1. Ashraful Islam (WK)
2. Nafees Iqbal
3. Rajin Saleh
4. Ishraq Sonet (c)
5. Atiqur Rahman
6. Naeem Islam
7. Manjural Islam
8. Jahurul Islam (wk)
9. Rezaul Haque
10. Syed Rasel
11. Anwar Hossain

England XI
1. A Strauss
2. M Vaughan (c)
3. K Pietersen
4. J Troughton
5. A Flintoff
6. G Jones (wk)
7. G Thorpe
8. M Davies
9. M Hoggard
10. J Anderson
11. S Harmison


1st ODI.

Bangladesh 4 for 212 from 50.
R Saleh 65
I Sonet 50
M Hoggard 2-37
J Anderson 1-29

England 2 for 213 from 47.
M Vaughan 97 N.O.
A Strauss 59
M Islam 1-43
A Hossain 1-47

England won by 8 wickets.
Man of the match: M Vaughan.

2nd ODI.
England lineup unchanged. Bangladesh replace N Islam with C Taj (19 Y.O. all-round off-spinner).

Bangladesh 7 for 220 from 50.
N Iqbal 72
A Islam 47
J Anderson 3-53
A Flintoff 2-45

England 9 for 216 from 50.
M Trescothick 58
G Jones 38
M Islam 3-37
A Hossain 2-29

Bangladesh win by 4 runs.
Man of the match: N Iqbal.

3rd ODI.
Shafaq Al-zabir replaces R Haque.

Bangladesh 109 all out from 30.
N Iqbal 27
I Sonet 27
M Hoggard 4-31
A Flintoff 3-12

England 1 for 111 from 25.
K Pietersen 53
M Trescothick 49
A Hossain 1-28

England won by 9 wickets.
Man of the match: M Hoggard


Pleased with the one win there. Not so pleased with the final match.

20 player squad soon to be announced.

 

[NZTailender]

20 man Bangladesh 'core' squad of players.

1. Ishraq Sonet. 19. Captain.
Tests: 4 Innings: 8 Not Outs: 1
Runs: 292 High Score: 66 100's:- 50's: 3
Average: 41.71
ODI's: 6 innings: 6 Not Outs: 0
Runs: 299 High Score: 94 100's:- 50's: 3
Average: 49.83

2. Nafees Iqbal. 22. Vice Captain.
Tests: 8 Inns: 16 NO: 1
Runs: 665 HS: 163 100's: 1 50's: 4
Average: 44.33
ODI's: 19 Inns: 19 NO: 0
Runs: 475 HS: 76 100's:- 50's: 3
Average: 25.00

3. Ashraful Islam. 20.
Tests: 6 inns: 12 NO: 1
Runs: 295 HS: 58 100's:- 50's: 3
Average: 26.82
ODI's: 9 Inns: 9 NO: 0
Runns: 155 HS: 47 100's:- 50's:-
Average: 17.22

4. Atiqur Rahman. 20.
Tests: 6 Inns: 11 NO: 0
Runs: 383 HS: 89 100's:- 50's: 4
Average: 34.82
ODI's: 7 Inns: 7 NO: 1
Runs: 117 HS: 48 100's:- 50's:-
Average: 19.50

5. Rajin Saleh. 23.
Tests: 17 Inns: 33 NO: 0
Runs: 1083 HS: 108 100's: 1 50's: 7
Average: 32.82
ODI's: 34 Inns: 34 NO: 1
Runs: 638 HS: 71 100's:- 50's: 4
Average: 19.33

6. Aftab Ahmed. 21.
Tests: 8 Inns: 16 NO: 0
Runs: 460 HS: 132 100's: 1 50's: 1
Average: 28.75
ODI's: 14 Inns: 14 NO: 0
Runs: 294 HS: 66 100's:- 50's: 2
Average: 21.00

7. Naeem Islam. 20.
Tests: 3 Inns: 6 NO: 0
Runs: 54 HS: 22 100's:- 50's:-
Average: 9.00
ODI's: 4 Inns: 4 NO: 1
Runs: 92 HS: 69 100's:- 50's: 1
Average: 30.67

8. Arif Ahmed. 20. Wicketkeeper.
Tests: 6 Inns: 11 NO: 0
Runs: 289 HS: 86 100's:- 50's: 2
Average: 26.27
ODI's: 11 Inns: 11 NO: 1
Runs: 194 HS: 47 100's:- 50's:-
Average: 19.40

9. Jahurul Islam. 20. Wicketkeeper.
FC: 31 Inns: 48 NO: 6
Runs: 1272 HS: 130* 100's: 1 50's: 8
Average: 30.29
ODI's: 3 Inns: 2 NO: 1
Runs: 5 HS: 3 100's:- 50's:-
Average: 5.00

10. Sadiqur Rahman. 19.
FC: 30 Inns: 52 NO: 5
Runs: 1419 HS: 156 100's: 3 50's: 5
Average: 30.19
OD: 40 Inns: 39 NO: 5
Runs: 773 HS: 50 100's:- 50's: 1
Average: 22.73

11. Golam Mawla. 23.
FC: 51 Inns: 90 NO: 6
Runs: 2314 HS: 177 100's: 2 50's: 9
Average: 27.55
OD: 47 Inns: 47 NO: 9
Runs: 875 HS: 58* 100's:- 50's: 3
Average: 23.03

12. Manjural Islam. 22. SLA
Tests: 13 Inns: 24 NO: 5
Runs: 636 HS: 77* 100's:- 50's: 4
Average: 33.77
Overs: 473 Runs: 1333 Wickets: 53
Best: 8-68 5 Wickets/Innings: 4 10 Wickets/Match: 1
Average: 25.15
ODI's: 29 Inns: 28 NO: 4
Runs: 463 HS: 63 100's:- 50's: 2
Average: 19.29
Overs: 219 Runs: 865 Wickets: 31
Best: 3-21 5 Wickets/Innings:-
Average: 27.90

13. Mohammad Ashraful. 22. LS
Tests: 21 Inns: 41 NO: 1
Runs: 949 HS: 114 100's: 1 50's: 5
Average: 23.72
Overs: 164 Runs: 666 Wickets: 8
Best: 3-64 5 W/I:- 10 W/M:-
Average: 83.25
ODI's: 43 Inns: 43 NO: 3
Runs: 609 HS: 66 100's:- 50's: 4
Average: 15.22
Overs: 99 Runs: 546 Wickets: 14
Best: 6-57 5 W/I: 1
Average: 39.00

14. Elias Sunny. 20. SLA
FC: 34 Inns: 53 NO: 6
Runs: 1266 HS: 142 100's: 1 50's: 6
Average: 26.94
Overs: 1052 Runs: 2837 Wickets: 114
Best: 7-63 5 W/I: 4 10 W/:-
Average: 24.89
OD: 42 Inns: 24 NO: 6
Runs: 525 HS: 112 100's: 1 50's: 0
Average: 29.17
Overs: 289 Runs: 1190 Wickets: 49
Best: 4-36 5 W/I: 0
Average: 24.29

15. Syed Rasel. 22. LFM
Tests: 2 Overs: 113 Runs: 275 Wickets: 9
Best: 4-79 5 W/I:- 10 W/M:-
Average: 30.56
ODI's: 9 Overs: 82 Runs: 307 Wickets: 7
Best: 2-31 5 W/I:-
Average: 43.86

16. Anwar Hossain. 25. RFM
Tests: 7 Overs: 290 Runs: 824 Wickets: 20
Best: 4-90 5 W/I:- 10 W/M:-
Average: 41.20
ODI's: 10 Overs: 91 Runs: 369 Wickets: 11
Best: 3-535 W/I:-
Average: 33.55

17. Arafat Sunny. 20. SLA
Tests: 6 Overs: 345 Runs: 948 Wickets: 25
Best: 5-53 5 W/I: 2 10 W/M:-
Average: 37.92

18. Nazmul Hossain. 19. RFM
FC: 22 Overs: 799 Runs: 2833 Wickets: 76
Best: 5-70 5 W/I: 1 10 W/M:-
Average: 37.28
OD: 29 Overs: 251 Runs: 1243 Wickets: 45
Best: 5-50 5W/I: 1
Average: 27.62

19. Shafaq Al-zabir. 20. LMF
Tests: 4 Overs: 129 Runs: 342 Wickets: 8
Best: 2-56 5 W/I:- 10 W/M:-

20. Rezaul Haque. 24. LMF
Tests: 7 Overs: 245 Runs: 636 Wickets: 14
Best: 3-43 5 W/I:- 10 W/M:-
Average: 45.43
ODI's: 14 Overs: 135 Runs: 506 Wickets: 14
Best: 3-27 5 W/I:-
Average: 36.14



Bangladesh 18 man squad to tour New Zealand.
1. Ishraq Sonet (c)
2. Nafees Iqbal (vc)
3. Ashraful Islam
4. Atiqur Rahman
5. Rajin Saleh
6. Aftab Ahmed
7. Naeem Islam
8. Arif Ahmed (wk)
9. Jahurul Islam (wk)
10. Sadiqur Rahman
11. Manjural Islam
12. Mohammad Ashraful
13. Elias Sunny
14. Syed Rasel
15. Anwar Hossain
16. Arafat Sunny
17. Nazmul Hossain
18. Rezaul Haque

 

[NZTailender]

Tour match vs Wellington. Was happy with our bowlers all getting wickets but batting leaves much to be desired.

1. Arif Ahmed (wk)
2. Ashraful Islam
3. Naeem Islam
4. Sadiqur Rahman
5. Mohammad Ashraful (c)
6. Manjural Islam
7. Elias Sunny
8. Nazmul Hossain
9. Anwar Hossain
10. Rezaul Haque
11. Syed Rasel

Wellington 1st innings 227 all out.
L Woodcock 57
M Pasputi 37
S Rasel 2-19
M Islam 2-26

Bangladesh 1st innings 305 all out.
Arif Ahmed 157
Ashraful islam 39
M Walker 4-43
A Penn 3-49

Wellington 2nd innings 158 all out.
M Bell 42
G Donaldson 33
R Haque 3-29
A Hossain 3-41

Bangladesh 2nd innings 1 for 22.
A Ahmed 19 N.O.
A Islam 3
I O'brien 1-13

Match Drawn.
Man of the match: Arif Ahmed.


Line ups for the first test vs New Zealand.

Bangladesh XI
1. Nafees Iqbal
2. Ashraful Islam
3. Aftab Ahmed
4. Israq Sonet (c)
5. Rajin Saleh
6. Atiqur Rahman
7. Arif Ahmed (wk)
8. Manjural Islam
9. Anwar Hossain
10. Rezaul Haque
11. Syed Rasel

vs

New Zealand XI
1. C McMillan
2. S Fleming (c)
3. J Oram
4. P Fulton
5. M Richardson
6. M Sinclair
7. N Astle
8. B McCullum (wk)
9. D Tuffey
10. M Mason
11. I O'brien


What an, err, interesting line up for NZ there

Bangladesh have won the toss and elected to bat

 

[NZTailender]

Bangladesh all out 467.
Aftab Ahmed 111
Nafees Iqbal 76
Atiqur Rahman 69
M Mason 4-90
D Tuffey 4-115

New Zealand all out 381.
M Sinclair 130
J Oram 103
M Islam 5-129
S Rasel 2-72

Bangladesh 7 for 377.
Aftab Ahmed 157
M Islam 72 N.O.
I O'brien 4-92
D Tuffey 2-88

Match Draw.
MOTM: Aftab Ahmed.

 

[NZTailender]

Good start on the first day lost Islam early on Then Iqbal when he was looking set for a century. Aftab Ahmed becomes the first player under my regime to score 2 centuries!

All out just before the end of day 2 with a good defendable score. We need to bowl tight. It seems there is a bit of turn on this pitch but NZ didn't have any spinners to exploit it so it looks as though we could.

Atiqur Rahman's 69 was a good stable innings after we lost a couple of quick wickets. The captain Sonet was out 47 and his failure to convert starts into big scores worries me.
I guess he's just like his opposite number, Fleming .

Manjural Islam once again provided late order resistence with 46...


NZ came into bat late on the 2nd day and looked wobbly. They lost Fleming and McMillan early on the third day to be 2-33. NZ batted slow and cautious and we didn't knock them over quick enough or exploit opportunity's.

Jacob Oram got to 103 with support from Fulton, Richardson and Sinclair. When Oram was out Astle and Sinclair hung around but once Astle (59) was gone it didn't improve much with McCullum hanging around (albeit for 22) while Sinclair went to 130. Manjural bowled well and a lot, taking 5-129 from 40 overs. NZ all out 381.

We didn't get them out quick enough so when we came back in to bat late on day four with a lead of just 86 we would have to bat quickly.
After a good opening partnership (59) we lost a few wickets and were 4-100, a lead of 186 before lunch on the final day. This wouldn't be enough to defend over two sessions so we played for a draw, not looking to pull off any spectacular win. Negative, maybe. Smart, yes.

Aftab Ahmed edged to another century (and a half!) with no less than 6 partners. Manjural Islam once again showed his all round class with 72. Ahmed was out slogging in the final few overs for 157, the first batter to get a century in both innings and 3 centuries in total for me.

In the end, a good draw for us.

 

[NZTailender]

Nazmul Hossian brought in to replace Haque's left arm medium with right arm fast medium. Elias Sunny brought in as another all round spin option in the place of Ashraful Islam who is replaced by keeper Arif Ahmed.

Line up's for the final test:

Bangladesh XI
1. Nafees Iqbal
2. Arif Ahmed (wk)
3. Aftab Ahmed
4. Israq Sonet (c)
5. Rajin Saleh
6. Atiqur Rahman
7. Manjural Islam
8. Nazmul Hossain
9. Anwar Hossain
10. Rezaul Haque
11. Syed Rasel

vs

New Zealand XI
1. C McMillan
2. S Fleming (c)
3. J Oram
4. P Fulton
5. M Richardson
6. M Sinclair
7. N Astle
8. B McCullum (wk)
9. S Bond
10. D Tuffey
11. I O'brien

NZ have won the toss and elected to bat.

 

[NZTailender]

New Zealand vs Bangladesh. Second test.

New Zealand all out 287.
P Fulton 92 N.O.
M Richardson 56
M Islam 5-99
E Sunny 3-40

Bangladesh all out 155.
Elias Sunny 43
Rajin Saleh 33
I O'brien 3-34
S Bond 3-44

New Zealand all out 139.
N Astle 36
M Richardson 29
M Islam 3-10
E Sunny 3-48

Bangladesh 4 for 272.
Aftab Ahmed 141 N.O.
Rajin Saleh 62
I O'brien 3-61
D Tuffey 1-59

Bangladesh won by 6 wickets.
MOTM: Aftab Ahmed.

What a game! We had NZ on the ropes in the 1st innings and would have knocked them over for a low score if it weren't for Fulton (who deserved a century).
We batted poorly though and no one could get set, except Sunny who on debut belted 43 to go with his 6 wickets for the match.
We had to knock over NZ quickly so we wouldn't be chasing a massive score and we did it early on day four!
Everyone shared in the wickets...with Manjural Islam the star once again.
We had plenty of time to run down the score but we could easily repeat the first innings.
Lost Iqbal with the score on 2 then Arif Ahmed at 16 followed by captain Sonet with the score of 51.
R Saleh who hasn't been having a great time lately, combined with the star man in form Aftab Ahmed. Their slow but sure 141 partnership for the 4th wicket set us up for the win. Though Saleh was out for 62, Ahmed continued with Rahman (37) to get the remaining 80 runs.

Aftab Ahmed scored his 4th century this season remaining unbeaten on 141, winning the match.

His position was under threat before this series. Last year he scored 172 runs in 8 innings at 21.50 with only one 50.

Currently he has 697 runs from 12 innings at 63.36 and four centuries!



Hopefully he can continue his form into the ODI series.

That was our first series win against New Zealand!

 

[Graham]

Well done mate!

 

[NZTailender]

Three match One Day international series.


Match 1.
New Zealand 6 for 213 from 50.
C McMillan 46
M Sinclair 41
Elias Sunny 3-49
Nazmul Hossain 2-46

Bangladesh 7 for 179 from 50.
Manjural Islam 61 N.O.
Arif Ahmed 51
Elias Sunny 44 N.O.

New Zealand won by 34 runs.
MOTM: Manjural Islam

Match 2.
Bangladesh all out 162 from 48.5.
Manjural Islam 29
Elias Sunny 27
A Schwass 3-33
D Tuffey 3-38

New Zealand 3 for 164.
S Fleming 88 N.O.
C McMillan 28
Syed Rasel 1-27
Nazmul Hossain 1-30

New Zealand won by 7 wickets.
MOTM: S Fleming.

Match 3.
Bangladesh 8 for 199 from 50.
Rajin Saleh 58
Nafees Iqbal 36
J Oram 3-44
I O'brien 2-51

New Zealand 3 for 200 from 47.1.
S Fleming 95 N.O.
M Sinclair 46 N.O.
Manjural Islam 3-34

New Zealand won by 7 wickets.
MOTM: S Fleming.


New Zealand win One Day Series 3-0.

Now that's over and done with...

 

[NZTailender]

Well, the World Cup has been and gone. To be honest, I don't feel like posting all the results as I'm not interested in ODI's at this stage. However we did make the Super 8 but only won two of our matches (vs South Africa, and a very unlikely and remarkable win vs England).


So now it's time for the home series vs New Zealand.

Our 12 man squad training for the first match:

1. Nafees Iqbal
2. Asraful Islam
3. Aftab Ahmed
4. Israq Sonet (c)
5. Rajin Saleh
6. Atiqur Rahman
7. Manjural Islam
8. Arif Ahmed (wk)
9. Anwar Hossain
10. Elias Sunny
11. Syed Rasel
12. Araft Sunny


1st Test Match vs New Zealand in Bangladesh.

Bangladesh XI
1. Nafees Iqbal
2. Asraful Islam
3. Aftab Ahmed
4. Israq Sonet (c)
5. Atiqur Rahman
6. Arif Ahmed (wk)
7. Manjural Islam
8. Elias Sunny
9. Arafat Sunny
10. Syed Rasel
11. Anwar Hossain

vs

New Zealand XI
New Zealand XI
1. C McMillan
2. S Fleming (c)
3. J Oram
4. P Fulton
5. M Richardson
6. K Mills
7. B McCullum (wk)
8. J Franklin
9. S Bond
10. D Tuffey
11. I O'brien

Bangladesh have won the toss, and will bat.

 

[NZTailender]

Good start! Didn't seem all that well, though being 5-200. I thought we'd make 300, tops. Aftab Ahmed (61) and Atiqur Rahman (54) both scored good fifties before losing their wicket. Manjural Islam went on and made his first hundred..something which he'd been threatening to do except for the fact he seemed to be always saving tests with 50's and 60's. Although the keeper's 100 was pretty classy. A very fine innings.

Syed Rasel was doing great lower order resistence when he got hit in the head on 29 and retired hurt, leaving us with one seamer.

I think this match will be a draw.

Edit: Maybe not. After the captain Sonet and his swinging medium pacers partnered Hossains fast bowling the Sunny boys came on to bowl and ripped the NZ batting line up to shreds...

Further edit: Wow. Easy. Far too easy. Seems this NZ team can't play spin at all. They did better than their first innings but we ended up winning by an innings.

Aftab Ahmed bowled some superb deliveries and was rewarded with 2 wickets for 34 runs. Hossain took 2 for 77 and Manjural Islam bowled 16 overs for 20 runs for no wicket.

Things are looking good to have another series win over NZ!
Bangladesh all out 473.
Arif Ahmed 113
Manjural Islam 108
J Franklin 4-122
I O'brien 3-103

New Zealand all out 138.
C McMillan 52
J Oram 18
Elias Sunny 6-41
Arafat Sunny 3-54

New Zealand following on all out 269.
M Richardson 56
J Oram 50
Elias Sunny 3-57
Arafat Sunny 3-74

Bangladesh win by an innings and 66 runs.
MOTN: Elias Sunny.

 

[NZTailender]

Shafaq Al-zabir in to replace Syed Rasel. I chose him over Nazmul Hossain because he's a left handed bowler and Rezaul Haque isn't doing well at all in FC.

New Zealand's lack of a spinner indicates this could very well be one sided..again.

2nd Test Match.

Bangladesh XI
1. Nafees Iqbal
2. Asraful Islam
3. Aftab Ahmed
4. Israq Sonet (c)
5. Atiqur Rahman
6. Arif Ahmed (wk)
7. Manjural Islam
8. Elias Sunny
9. Arafat Sunny
10. Shafaq Al-zabir
11. Anwar Hossain

vs

New Zealand XI
1. C McMillan
2. S Fleming (c)
3. J Oram
4. P Fulton
5. M Richardson
6. K Mills
7. B McCullum (wk)
8. J Franklin
9. S Bond
10. D Tuffey
11. I O'brien

 

[NZTailender]

Aaaargh! We were so close to a series clean sweep!

NZ quicks got revenge for the first test, knocking over our batsmen for 143 then their batsmen getting 364. We made a small lead but couldn't get them out so the series was drawn 1-1. Great knock by captain Sonet who hasn't had a crash hot 12 months to save us from an innings defeat backed up by Arif Ahmed then Elias Sunny.

Bangladesh all out 143.
Atiqur Rahman 58
Aftab Ahmed 22
I O'brien 4-40
J Franklin 3-32

New Zealand all out 364.
K Mills 85
P Fulton 78
Arafat Sunny 6-115
Elias Sunny 2-91

Bangladesh all out 331.
Ishraq Sonet 83
Arif Ahmed 81
J Franklin 3-76
J Oram 2-63

New Zealand 4 for 113.
J Oram 58
C McMillan 21
Manjural Islam 2-36
Arafat Sunny 1-39

New Zealand won by 7 wickets.
MOTM: J Oram


Next is a 3 match one day series which NZ should win easily.

 

[NZTailender]

One Day International Series.

Bangladesh XI
1. Asraful Islam
2. Nafees Iqbal
3. Atiqur RahmanA
4. Israq Sonet (c)
5. Aftab Ahmed
6. Arif Ahmed (wk)
7. Manjural Islam
8. Elias Sunny
9. Arafat Sunny
10. Nazmul Hossain
11. Anwar Hossain

vs

New Zealand XI
1. C McMillan
2. S Fleming (c)
3. J Oram
4. P Fulton
5. K Mills
6. M Sinclair
7. B McCullum (wk)
8. J Franklin
9. S Bond
10. D Tuffey
11. I O'brien

 

[NZTailender]

We actually came close in this one. Our main obstacles were McMillan and Mills. Somehow, Mills is mr super all rounder in this game. Sigh

New Zealand 7 for 199 from 50.
K Mills 54
C McMillan 49
Manjural Islam 2-38
Nazmul Hossain 2-38

Bangladesh 9 for 182 from 50.
Arif Ahmed 57
Manjural Islam 32
D Tuffey 3-35
I O'brien 2-22

New Zealand won by 17 runs.
MOTM: K Mills

 

[Graham]

I must admit that I also prefer the test matches!

 

[NZTailender]

I must admit that I also prefer the test matches!

Yeah. One dayers seem so random and stuff.