13th Match - India v Bangladesh (23rd March)

[Burner]

They must really be the worst 'professional' fixers then if half the people recognize that the match is fixed.

 

[vcs]

Glad most people think of it as a choke rather than a fix here. Mushfiqur looked too pumped for his own good and then Mahmudullah played a bad shot after hitting one spectacular four. They should have just got for the ones and twos and that stage.

They got into trouble when Mushfiqur holed out. It meant Mahmudullah couldn't just look for the single for the tie and trust the No. 10 to finish it on the last ball.

 

[Daemon]

They got into trouble when Mushfiqur holed out. It meant Mahmudullah couldn't just look for the single for the tie and trust the No. 10 to finish it on the last ball.

Exactly. You get a full toss when that equation presents itself you definitely try to finish the game right there and then.

 

[91Jmay]

Get a full toss in that situation you can just gap it for 2 easily. Can bisect Dhawan and Jadeja fairly comfortably, get 2 and win game.

 

[Prince EWS]

Exactly. You get a full toss when that equation presents itself you definitely try to finish the game right there and then.

The more I think about the Mahmudullah shot, the more I think 'choke' isn't really the right word. It's a word used to describe an instance where the pressure of the situation adversely affects a player's decisions, but if anything Mahmudullah almost reverse-choked by failing to actually take into account the situation of the game and the enormity of the moment. When Mahmudullah gets a knee high full toss in a T20 game, he tries to deposit it for six, so he batted in his bubble and instinctively did it then too. A bit more 'choking' and he might have actually tried to pick up one or two.

Mushfiqur choked though. Wasn't even a good shot selection outside the situation.

 

[Pratters]

Mushfiqur almost got himself run out 2 times (or was it once), then hit a four, then got out. If he had not hit that four, I wouldn't mind mind some one thinking there was a fixing angle which could be ascertained with an investigation. However, that four meant any theory of a fix would be absurd. Mushfiqur just was hyper from a few balls before that final choke shot letting the situation get to him.