**Official**Zimbabwe in Bangladesh Thread

[marc71178]

Oh so you reckon Gooch or Botham could make the Englih side right now? Or would Streak not manage to get into the Zimbabwe side?

When retired, players are not available.

 

[BlackCap_Fan]

'Only' 44 Tests in those 26 years though. Bangladesh's first win came in their 35th match, so NZ hold that proud record. NZ's win was against a pretty decent WI side though, containing the likes of Sobers, Weekes, Ramadhin and Valentine.

Yeah.

But I don't think that Bangladesh will be beating the likes of WI, England, NZ etc for a while.

 

[Langeveldt]

Pratyush, frankly speaking, you are one of the blind supporters, who don't want the cricket to be globalized. You are just happy to see your team 7th team out of 10 rather than 20th out of 30. You people never give credits to new teams. I think people like you do that intentionally so that these team can never grow up. If they play good, you never give credit to them(you will either say the opponent did not have all the players of top form, or the pitch was not good). If they play bad one day, you just cry out "the cricket world is being destroyed, what ICC have done.".

This happened with Srilanka also, people were ridiculed at them once. Now you see where they are. And you will also see in near future when India will be very happy if they can manage to get a victory over Bangladesh. and then some Bangladeshi blind supporters like you will cry out when ICC will give test status to Nepal.

Absolute tosh.. I have no problem with cricket being "globalised", but when a team who should never have been allowed into test cricket thrashes a country with a corrupt, totally politcally motivated board who discriminates against colour and whos only purpouse is to act as a mouthpiece to a regime that is claiming millions of lives, you have to wonder, what is the point in test cricket when it is being weakened like this? Why are either of these sides playing?

Don't give me all this romantic claptrap about Bangladesh's steady progression.. If Argentina played test cricket for 200 years they might become good as well... But it wouldn't be for the good of test cricket would it?

 

[Neil Pickup]

Except it's not going to take 200 years. It's not even going to take 26.

It's not Bangladesh's fault they were promoted too early and that there's such a high volume of Tests today. Let today's 12 year olds come through and blossom and then pass judgment.

 

[Crazy Sam]

my question is, do bangladesh have the facilities/set-up for these 12 year olds to become good test players?? I'm not sure either way because I don't know much about their situation in that regard, I'm merely asking you.

 

[Zinzan]

Congratulations Bangledesh !!!!!

 

[Langeveldt]

my question is, do bangladesh have the facilities/set-up for these 12 year olds to become good test players?? I'm not sure either way because I don't know much about their situation in that regard, I'm merely asking you.

Apparently there is a severe amount of apathy towards domestic 4 day cricket (dunno if they play 3 though).. I know it isnt really popular anywhere, but apparently its taken as a bit of a laugh and a joke around in Bangladesh.. According to Mr Chapple anyway..

 

[James90]

It's gone, the 4/3 day game has gone from domestic cricket. However they do a lot of work with the u-19's who play plenty of long matches. The premier league in Bangladesh is only 1-day and Twenty20. Don't know the thinking behind that, hopefully the 4-day comp will get back up and running in the not too distant future

 

[James90]

well done Bangalesh
does anyone know the most number of tests it took for a test team to win their first tst match?

I think it was 35, less than New Zealand anyway

 

[Nate]

It's not Bangladesh's fault they were promoted too early and that there's such a high volume of Tests today.

Exactly. Bagnladesh have done the best they can and have finally been rewarded. Hooray!!!!!!

Go Bashar, Mortaza, Haque Jr and Rafique. GO BANGLADESH!

 

[SJS]

I think it was 35, less than New Zealand anyway

New Zealand took 45 tests to win their first test. Bangladesh is second on the list with 35.

Australia 1st test and Pakistan and England 2nd test are bottom of the list for obvious reasons.

Pakistan won in their second test which is commendable indeeed. Of course, since it was a nation carved out of an existing test playing nation, they had the advantage of having existing test players playing for them in their first test !! Still they did a remarkable job. They beat India in their very second test match in October 1952. India had won their own frist test earlier that year.

South Africa were the best starters with a win in their 10th test against England. It was the first test of the series and South Africa went on to win the series 4-1 !

Surprisingly, Zimbabwe is one of the better starters in tests winning only their 11th game. A potential ruined by politics.

 

[Slow Love™]

No, it is the best available side ZImbabwe can field.

Missing the point. Possibly deliberately.

Good luck to the Bangers though. I feel happy for them. There's another upside to all this, opinions of Bangladesh's test status notwithstanding - IMO, it's a good thing for Zimbabwe to get done in by teams like Bangladesh. I hope those poor results keep rolling in, so that attention on the ZCU's issues (that the ICC now is happy that everybody's comfortably forgotten about so quickly) gets raised all over again.

 

[marc71178]

No, I saw what he was trying to say, but when players are long retired (and remember some of them went around 99), they're not available.

 

[Tim]

Yep it took NZ 45 tests to finally win one but that was over 40 years!
Bangladesh got to 35 in the space of just 5 years...its difficult to draw comparisons IMO.

 

[Smudge]

Yep it took NZ 45 tests to finally win one but that was over 40 years!
Bangladesh got to 35 in the space of just 5 years...its difficult to draw comparisons IMO.

We had some very good players during that time - Martin Donnelly, Jack Cowie, Tom Lowry, Stewie Dempster, Walter Hadlee, and poor old Bert Sutcliffe, who never got to play in a winning side (he was injured/unavailable for our first test win against the Windies.

 

[GotSpin]

i was watching the replay, and if they were as good as cricket than they were at gymanstics...

 

[James90]

Talking about Ashraful's cartwheels?

 

[Nate]

Talking about Ashraful's cartwheels?

and it wasnt just Ashraful!! awesome moment in cricket. mortaza struggling to bowl because he was crying, he knew what was coming.

 

[GotSpin]

It had a great atmosphere to it..the players doing cartwheels, crowd going crazy

 

[Pratters]

When retired, players are not available.

Well had it not been for Mugabe and money issues, most of them would still be available. And most of the current players would not get ahead of a Zimbabwe A or Zimbabwe B.