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*Official* Bangladesh Tour of Pakistan- Test Series

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govinda indian fan

State Vice-Captain
Aritro said:
I fear the worst tomorrow given how much help the pitch is offering. The previous test notwithstanding, we've batted at 00s level a lot of the time in recent years and if there's some purchase on offer for seam and spin (as per Warney's "if it seams it spins" maxim) we might be screwed.
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Dont worry pakistan are missing shaheen and naseem their two best pacers so you guys do have chance provided you bat decently
 
cricman

cricman

International 12th Man
Should be interesting how both sides react to pressure from both the scoreboard and weather forecast. Pakistan need to win, while Bangladesh don't need to win but can't afford to lose.
 
Aritro

Aritro

International Regular
Ah yes, it begins. The ball threatens to move more than a fraction of a degree off its axis and our boys are all at sea
 
Starfighter

Starfighter

Cricket Web: All-Time Legend
Not a good start from Bangladesh. Also shows how much they let Pakistan get away with in the first session yesterday.
 
Howe_zat

Howe_zat

Audio File
All Bangladesh had to do was not get completely rolled, but here we are.

44 needed to avoid the follow on...
 
Nintendo

Nintendo

Cricketer Of The Year
mehidy at 8 in the subcontinent is such a cheatcode. He's like a mini jadeja circa ~2018 when he first stopped being a "I have 3 first class triple hundreds" meme with the bat.
 
Howe_zat

Howe_zat

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Nintendo said:
mehidy at 8 in the subcontinent is such a cheatcode. He's like a mini jadeja circa ~2018 when he first stopped being a "I have 3 first class triple hundreds" meme with the bat.
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He's threatened to do it for a while but never really delivered until the last couple of years. That had been easy to put down to just the fixture list (a bit of Ireland and Afghanistan matches, plus SL at home) but as much trouble as Pakistan have had lately it's hard to get much tougher than coming in at 20/6 away, so it's starting to look more like a proper breakthrough.
 
Aritro

Aritro

International Regular
Nintendo said:
It's in the range of 35 over the past 2 years. He's improved leaps and bounds with the bat across all 3 formats.
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After a dreadful away series in the West Indies in 2022, he's put up these numbers in the last 10 tests so I may have to think about re-evaluating my "sub-all rounder but better than a normal tailender level batsman" assessment of him from earlier in this thread. Late order not outs obviously a factor.

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But in my head, the "decent batsman" phase of his career starts after he made his first ton, followed by a 50, when we resumed playing tests in 2021 post-COVID. The overall numbers in that time are more in line with my assessment:

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Either way, I would not be in a rush to bat him anywhere near the top 6 yet. Pretty happy to have him coming in as a cheat code 8 (as per the Deshi tradition of gun number 8s coming in after a dismal top 7)
 
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Prince EWS

Prince EWS

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Aritro said:
After a dreadful away series in the West Indies in 2022, he's put up these numbers in the last 10 tests so I may have to think about re-evaluating my "sub-all rounder but better than a normal tailender level batsman" assessment of him from earlier in this thread. Late order not outs obviously a factor.

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But in my head, the "decent batsman" phase of his career starts after he made his first ton, followed by a 50, when we resumed playing tests after a long COVID hiatus in 2021. The overall numbers in that time are more in line with my assessment:

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Either way, I would not be in a rush to bat him anywhere near the top 6 yet. Pretty happy to have him coming in as a cheat code 8 (as per the Deshi tradition of gun number 8s coming in after a dismal top 7)
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He might be better than some of the actual bats soon though. Maybe he should be batting 6 with some other cheat code top order batsman at 8.
 
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