Australia v Bangladesh (GIVE NATHAN ELLIS A GAME), at the Ring of Fire, Dubai-- 11/4 Thursday (D), Match #34, Group 1

[SillyCowCorner1]

After a 4-1 drubbing at the hands of Bangladesh not so long ago, the Aussies will be looking to piggyback on the Proteas' mauling of the Tigers.

Notable Stat:
Glenn Maxwell passed 18 in only one of his last eight T20I innings

 

[Nintendo]

If marsh is 100% getting a recall I would drop smudge and bring Inglis in at 5.

 

[cnerd123]

urgh this is gonna be painful

 

[Burgey]

If marsh is 100% getting a recall I would drop smudge and bring Inglis in at 5.

You know this team hasn't been scoring runs, right? And relies ridiculously on its top 4?

 

[Spark]

Yeah the last thing I'd so is drop Smith. He's not the player you pick when aiming for 180-200 scores but nothing about this team says that that's how they want to play anyway.

 

[Stefan9]

Come on tigers. Give us a nice upset

 

[Burgey]

God I’d forgotten over the winter how terrible the Fox pregame stuff is. Primary school level. As you expect with Brett Lee in the picture

 

[Burgey]

Lee correctly referring to de Villiers as “ABD” rather than the often used but chronically incorrect “AB”.

 

[_Ed_]

Not an ideal start for Bangladesh.

 

[slippy888]

Why are Bangladesh 8/1 to win this game

 

[Bahseph]

Bangladesh preparing those dodgy pitches before this tournament really coming back to bite them.

 

[Burgey]

Interesting stat that the Bangers have only won one game at a T20 WC against a full member nation. Thought they’d have done better than that tbh

 

[AndyZaltzHair]

Hopefully this is the end of Soumya (from all format), Mushfiq (from t20), Mahmudullah (from all format), Domingo (from all format)

 

[Burgey]

Lotta blokes getting spliced up in this innings.

 

[AndyZaltzHair]

Embarrassing performance. Don’t know why we won against Oman. Oman playing here would have been better for World Cricket and the group.

 

[Bahseph]

Interesting stat that the Bangers have only won one game at a T20 WC against a full member nation. Thought they’d have done better than that tbh

The accompanying stat showed that their record for most runs,wickets and sixes all come from Shakib. At some point the reliance on him has to stop.

 

[Burgey]

Probably should have stopped when he got suspended tbh

 

[slippy888]

If Bangla score 120 Australia will be fuming with themselves

 

[Howe_zat]

Interesting stat that the Bangers have only won one game at a T20 WC against a full member nation. Thought they’d have done better than that tbh

Since they started being a proper team they've been a much better 50 over side than 20 over I think. In the last 5-6 years you'd probably even go ODI>Test>T20I for them.

Shakib is more or less a microcosm of why from the looks of things. Touch batting rather than power batting, darty spin rather than mystery spin, meh fielding.

 

[Nintendo]

You know this team hasn't been scoring runs, right? And relies ridiculously on its top 4?

Yes? Smith has been thoroughly average in both T20 and t20I for coming on 2 years now in his prefered position of 3 and has done nothing to show he's going to be any more useful down at 5, while marsh has been one of the best t20 bats in the country recently. You can only pick one marsh and smudge,and I prefer Inglis to Smith down the order