The Tigers: Bangladesh News, Selection, Fanboying and Fury

[cnerd123]

Pretty disappointing that we bundled out for such low score in first innings against Afghanistan

Interesting they've agreed to play Afghanistan at all, given Australia's stance on playing them.

IDM tbh.

 

[AndyZaltzHair]

Terrific ground. Sylhet needs to hold more INT matches.

 

[AndyZaltzHair]

2nd day live BCB HP team looks promising

Mahmudul Hasan Joy at no 3

 

[AndyZaltzHair]

Not impressed with Shahidul in BD A. Never heard of him and he seems ordinary.

 

[Aritro]

Never seen Hridoy make a score. Would be nice if he kicks on

 

[AndyZaltzHair]

M Joy should ton up here. He seems to have the temperament for big score

 

[Aritro]

I see the High Performance team already have a slow left armer on in the 8th over.

Oh Bangladesh!

 

[Aritro]

Meanwhile, some seriously impressive bowling from Ripon Mondol in the U/19s on what I assume was a total spinners' pitch

 

[AndyZaltzHair]

Afghanistan with a huge lead. We are losing this match. Somehow we managed to win limited overs series and now this loss. I’m not sure about this bunch. The previous batch was much impressive that included Joy, T.Tamim, Rakib, Shameem, T.Hridoy, Akbar

 

[AndyZaltzHair]

https://www.facebook.com/video.php?v=987297445446258

 

[AndyZaltzHair]

Bilal Sami looks like a good prospect for Afghanistan. Aggressive and good pace. A bit of Hamid Hassan about him.

 

[AndyZaltzHair]

Nabil and Khalid doing well. The partnership needs to carry on

 

[AndyZaltzHair]

Alright, I just had a look at some of the footage from Aich Mollah's century in the third YODI and I'm very impressed by what I saw. He's a classic Deshi batsman of short stature who relies on touch and timing for his runs. Think Ashraful/Aftab Ahmed. He looked a cut above all his teammates and played with a class and poise that stood out. He's very balanced at the crease and showed good footwork, and most impressively, scored his runs all around the wicket on both front and backfoot. There was one beautifully timed cut shot off a slow bowler that I'd identify as the highlight of the innings. Most notably, he made his 108 off 130 balls on a pitch that was very helpful for spin bowling, on a glacially slow outfield, amidst a whole host of batsmen on both teams who struggled to score above a strike rate of 30. He started slowly before accelerating later and demonstrated an already well developed ability to work his wrists to manoeuvre the ball and rotate the strike, along with some slog sweeps and other big shots.

A breath of fresh air, having seen successive generations of young Bangladeshi batsmen come into the senior team knowingly only how to play big shots and predictably failing to do so against top class bowling.

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Looks like natural timer of the ball. Good hand eye coordination.

 

[AndyZaltzHair]

Aich Mollah taking it to the Afghan spinners

 

[Aritro]

Beautiful late cuts from Nabil in that last over.

 

[Aritro]

Bilal Sami looks like a good prospect for Afghanistan. Aggressive and good pace. A bit of Hamid Hassan about him.

Not convinced he's any younger than 28 but he's certainly got a bit of Hamid Hassan about him

 

[AndyZaltzHair]

Afghanistan letting this slip away now. Nabil and Aich well set

 

[AndyZaltzHair]

Poor decision by the umpire to give Nabil out. The ball looked like pitching outside leg to start with then missing leg.

Afghanistan back in the game. Depends on Aich now to see us through

 

[AndyZaltzHair]

How does Afghanistan keep producing quality leg spinners? Naveed seems real deal.

 

[Aritro]

Afghanistan back in the game. Depends on Aich now to see us through

Looks like he's succumbed to the Deshi collapse. Will be very hard to win this from here.

On another note, today's commentator is a lot easier to listen to than the other guy