Official NZ in Bangladesh (5 T20s)

[Fuller Pilch]

Got em

 

[Aritro]

Definitely come along nicely, in the last twenty years you've produced some serious cricketers and some very good young cricketers. They're pretty good. The system and training facilities must be quite good.

Ahh, nice of you to say but not sure about this mate.

The system has been shite for most of the twenty years, with a first class competition widely regarded as a joke by players and administrators alike, an academy that was bafflingly closed for a few years, and talent identification that often seemed sporadic and scatter-gun. Not sure how much access there is to good grassroots cricket is around the country either. Mustafiz played most of his pre-national team cricket with a taped tennis ball with his friends seems to be the narrative.

And the facilities are absolutely appalling. I watched a pretty big domestic match at Abahani Math, one of the more significant domestic grounds in Dhaka and it was worse than some of the grounds I played U/12s on in Melbourne. No exaggeration.

Other than a few facilities the national team uses, I suspect they're all well below the minimum required standard to produce good cricketers.

That combination of being a football country that suddenly took up cricket, a terrible system and **** facilities - as well as other problems endemic to developing countries - are actually the reason we're still as **** as we are.

But it's now the fastest growing economy in the world, and has a cricketing tradition now. Hopefully the next 20 years yields an actual world class team.

 

[nzfan]

Geez.. who's this commentator? He wants us to drop catches it seems haha

I think Bangladesh had sent him to go for it looks like. The senior 3 batters will probably milk our bowlers.

 

[Aritro]

Probably needed 150

129 is plenty competitive IMO. The pitch is offering more grip than the last one IMO, and the ball's sticking a bit more and not coming onto the bat as much.

We've got a lot to do from here. Ajaz bowling well today on a sidenote.

 

[AndyZaltzHair]

Bangladesh posters question for you. Were you guys always passionate about cricket even when you weren't playing international cricket? I always wondered.

Yeah, was a cricket obsessive way before we got test status.

If you're wondering about Deshi fans generally; no most people weren't particularly passionate about cricket. It was a football country with cricket as an established second sport with a solid following, but a long way behind football for mainstream popularity and recognisability.

Qualifying for the 99 World Cup, hosting the ICC KnockOut Trophy in 99 (equivalent to the latter day Champions Trophy) and then test status pretty much reversed that state of affairs overnight though.

Might need @AndyZaltzHair to confirm though seeing as he was actually there after I moved away in 1994.

Aritro pretty much covered it. The major turn around for cricket in the country came along when we won ICC Trophy in ‘97 circa against Kenya in Malaysia. Kenya was pretty much strong back then with likes of Steve Tikolo, Maurice Odumbe, Otieno. I still remember listening the final on radio as there was no coverage of the match back in the country. After our win, we went out in the streets and celebrated like anything. Before that match, we were football (soccer) crazy country. Then the WC ‘99, after beating Pakistan, the whole country just became cricket mad.

 

[Moss]

Great over so far from Ajaz. Looking forward to watching him bowl on the India tour in December.

 

[straw man]

maybe this will be interesting after all...

 

[Athlai]

Surprised we got over 100, sounds like a big effort from Blundell and Latham

 

[straw man]

there's no real reason for Bangladesh to attack Ajaz either - low target and Ajaz is our biggest threat in these conditions by a long way

 

[Aritro]

Kiwis well on top at the moment. This isn't an easy pitch to force the run rate on. Will take some heroics from Mushfiq and Mahmudullah to get this back on track.

 

[nzfan]

Ahh, nice of you to say but not sure about this mate.

The system has been ****e for most of the twenty years, with a first class competition widely regarded as a joke by players and administrators alike, an academy that was bafflingly closed for a few years, and talent identification that often seemed sporadic and scatter-gun. Not sure how much access there is to good grassroots cricket is around the country either. Mustafiz played most of his pre-national team cricket with a taped tennis ball with his friends seems to be the narrative.

And the facilities are absolutely appalling. I watched a pretty big domestic match at Abahani Math, one of the more significant domestic grounds in Dhaka and it was worse than some of the grounds I played U/12s on in Melbourne. No exaggeration.

Other than a few facilities the national team uses, I suspect they're all well below the minimum required standard to produce good cricketers.

That combination of being a football country that suddenly took up cricket, a terrible system and **** facilities - as well as other problems endemic to developing countries - are actually the reason we're still as **** as we are.

But it's now the fastest growing economy in the world, and has a cricketing tradition now. Hopefully the next 20 years yields an actual world class team.

Ok I thought considering it's only been 20 years and so much progress has been made already with some good cricketers in the rank I was crediting the set up. Probably the individuals are setting themselves up with hard work and their own resources perhaps.

 

[RossTaylorsBox]

Surprised we got over 100, sounds like a big effort from Blundell and Latham

Latham got 5

 

[Athlai]

Great work from Latham to get 5

 

[Athlai]

Didn't even know he bowled

 

[nzfan]

Jazzy and MCC are bowling tough overs in the powerplay against good players of spin. Super impressed by then both.

 

[Aritro]

It's a ****ing T20 Athar, they're supposed to play big shots.

The bloke is like a robot programmed to repeat the same ill-fitting axioms about shot selection any time someone goes out.

 

[nzfan]

Yay.. CDG contributed. That was an awesome effort, saved a boundary

 

[nzfan]

Rachin Jadeja...

 

[Aritro]

Lol, congratulations New Zealand C on a rousing away win

 

[slippy888]

These pitches are ridiclous lol like dust bowls