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Old June 20, 2019, 10:36 PM
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Originally Posted by Roey Haque
No, you must not have watched the game. He had no help. Rahim is many things, historically bad wicketkeeper, locker room cancer, premature celebrator, but slow scorer he is not. Soumya, Shakib and Rahim are the only guys who can go run a ball from ball one.

Riyad and Tamim started too slow.

Tamim always starts slow, and then slows down some more before his 50s, after his 50s, and then when he's in the 80s. Erratic piece of work, this guy is.

Riyad can normally level up his strike rate to more than 200, but never before facing at least 30 balls bare minimum. Only once or twice maybe he leveled up from the very first over.

These are the players that we have unfortunately. We will never chase down 350+ with two run rate handicaps in Slowmim Dotball and Mahma-Dull-ah Riyad. Not happening.
Riyad's strike rate was 110+ when he got out. The problem was poor bowling and fielding.

The batsmen have all done admirably in this world cup as they should with the pitches being so flat.

My grades so far:

Tamim: C (much more expected from him, started slow due to injury, still plenty of time to come to the runfest party)
Soumya: C (strike rate is great, but we need a big innings from him 80+ runs at 115+ strike rate)
Shakib: an A+ would be too low a grade, so he's not getting one
Mushy: A- (78 vs SA, 102* vs AUS and some low scores)
Liton: A-
Mithun: D
Riyad: B (has done fine given his limited opportunities)
Mosaddek: B (same as Riyad)

Overall team batting grade is an A-
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