Match Thread: Only Test - India v Bangladesh at Hyderabad on Feb 9-13, 2017

[Match Adda]

Another 50 for musfiq... but stay until day end ...

[Mas_UK25]

Just woke up. Saw the scorecard. Was sakib playing t20? What was the rush? Why didn't Tomato be more chilled, bat long and not take risky run?
Why is Mahmudullah in the test side?

Last but not least I'm not sold on sabbir as test player we all saw how flash and over risky he is in nz and some the way he gets out seems too careless.

[Rinathq]

Originally Posted by anon4567
+1.
But senior bolods might have a huge ego problem if they get replaced by youngsters. No other test playing nations (barring Zim) gives their senior players this many chances to redeem themselves.

And only because "He hit us the fastest half-century against South Africa 2 years back" or "He scored 2 centuries in CWC 15" is no excuse to give people a life long position in the squad.

man.. problem is our youngstars arent looking any better tbh. Soumya, Mominul, Sabbir arent looking like keepers. So its difficult to drop the seniors and try more and more young players when they are not ready. Our youngsters first showed amazing stats in domestics... but its slowly changing again. Look at the last NCL! Leading scorers are guys like Kapali, Tushar, Zunaid..... If they cant outscore these guys then how do u bring em in to compete internationally?

[Match Adda]

New ball taken... good musfiq will face the first over of new ball

[Mas_UK25]

We can't have two or 3 t20 specialists in the side. Sakib, Sabbir, Mamudullah, none the eant to grind out and bat long (in terms of balls), say a 150 ball 70!!!

[duke]

Originally Posted by anon4567
We are way too lucky to even have had made 250, we should be thankful for the leniency of the umpires giving at least 2-3 decisions that could have gone eitherways in our favours.

We would have folded by 200 if that had happened, not that we did any better even with that added advantage.

Where are the umpire conspiracy theorists now?

umpire conspiracy theorists are the worst. umpires never make mistakes intentionally. but some fans can just accept it.

[MHRAM]

Soumya and Sabbir don't deserve to be in the test side no matter what. We have Mosaddek who averages 70 in FC and can bowl some spin, should be ahead of Sabbir

Soumya should be replaced by Shahriar Nafees.

[duke]

Originally Posted by MHRAM
Soumya and Sabbir don't deserve to be in the test side no matter what. We have Mosaddek who averages 70 in FC and can bowl some spin, should be ahead of Sabbir

Soumya should be replaced by Shahriar Nafees.

come on man! soumya's shots are very pleasing to the eyes! let him play , he will adapt.

[al-Sagar]

Hmm..... Then

[Rana Melb]

Miraz and mushi are BALL EATING MODE...GOOD APPROACH

[MHRAM]

Originally Posted by Mas_UK25
We can't have two or 3 t20 specialists in the side. Sakib, Sabbir, Mamudullah, none the eant to grind out and bat long (in terms of balls), say a 150 ball 70!!!

What Bangladesh boards wants is a bunch of players who can score 50 ball 80 so that the match ends quickly for either side so that saves a lot of money for the board.

We play BPL and we don't pick the best performers from BPL
We have 2 FC tourneys and we end up picking those who have poor FC average.
We drop players because of "selfish-ness" although these selfish players have immense hunger to score big runs and not be happy with 15-20 runs

[Match Adda]

4444 mehedi.. he pass 20

[al-Sagar]

How many will we loose today???

Or can these two survive??

[Mas_UK25]

Originally Posted by MHRAM
What Bangladesh boards wants is a bunch of players who can score 50 ball 80 so that the match ends quickly for either side so that saves a lot of money for the board.

We play BPL and we don't pick the best performers from BPL
We have 2 FC tourneys and we end up picking those who have poor FC average.
We drop players because of "selfish-ness" although these selfish players have immense hunger to score big runs and not be happy with 15-20 runs

It's absolutely annoying and getting sick of it. Selectors messing up our chances at test, wasting our test matches selecting some wrong players for wrong format.

Shahriar Nafees is wonderful player of spin, on flat wicket he will be beast these days, since his improvement recent times. Mossadekk has amazing fc average, yet cant get in. Liton das scores a double ton and still misses out.

Sabbir is in there for his flashiness or something. Saw the he got out in NZ, some easy, lack of effort and try. He hasn't entirely impressed me, tbh. I don't care if he is flashy, we have sakib for that.

I hope they drop, Mullah and Sabbir and Select Mossadek, Nasir, Nafees, Liton. Sarkar was looking good tbh, unlucky to get that edge, good ball, he played it late. If the do drop Sakar then Nafees would be better pick.

[Mas_UK25]

Really annoyed and fed up, with the seniors showing lack of appreciation. Some of them get in set, then lose it easily. This isn't t20 - when will they get it? Why some them trying to be Warner? I don't want 100 ball 85 I want 150 ball 60-70!! In context of the match more balls needed to be wasted...!


Mushy is the only one who has the proper test mindset, out the "seniors"

[MHRAM]

Originally Posted by Mas_UK25
It's absolutely annoying and getting sick of it. Selectors messing up our chances at test, wasting our test matches selecting some wrong players for wrong format.

Shahriar Nafees is wonderful player of spin, on flat wicket he will be beast these days, since his improvement recent times. Mossadekk has amazing fc average, yet cant get in. Liton das scores a double ton and still misses out.

Sabbir is in there for his flashiness or something. Saw the he got out in NZ, some easy, lack of effort and try. He hasn't entirely impressed me, tbh. I don't care if he is flashy, we have sakib for that.

I hope they drop, Mullah and Sabbir and Select Mossadek, Nasir, Nafees, Liton. Sarkar was looking good tbh, unlucky to get that edge, good ball, he played it late. If the do drop Sakar then Nafees would be better pick.

Unfortunately our board does not care about our bench strength or replacement

No Academy tour matches
No A team series

for quite a long time. We need to play more A team series so that we can give oppurtunity to our bench and can see who is up to the mark for debut or recall

[Tigers_eye]

Originally Posted by Rana Melb
Miraz and mushi are BALL EATING MODE...GOOD APPROACH

4 by Mushi. 267/6. 17 overs left for the day.

[al-Sagar]

These two survive one hour

[Tigers_eye]

Drinks. Final leg for the day. 16 overs to survive.

[al-Sagar]

Good batting by these two

Saw of the 2ND new ball

[SportingBD]

Happy for Mushy and Mehedi.

Both of them digging in, fighting hard.

we could have easily reached 400+, with better application from others.

[al-Sagar]

Nice shot

Four more

[al-Sagar]

Another good shot

Four more

[Mas_UK25]

Just saw highlights of sakibs and sabbirs getting out. WTF is wrong with sakib man! Why is he so in hurry to score, why is he getting out softly all the time, every match!
Sabbir sweep, lol. Why take such a risk on the left armer who bowls very accurately. Sabbirs style is very t20esque. Like I said and we know, If sakib is doing the quick scoring we don't need Sabbir... we need test specialists, grinders, hard fighting players....

[Tigers_eye]

Originally Posted by Mas_UK25
Just woke up. Saw the scorecard. Was sakib playing t20? What was the rush? Why didn't Tomato be more chilled, bat long and not take risky run?
Why is Mahmudullah in the test side?

Last but not least I'm not sold on sabbir as test player we all saw how flash and over risky he is in nz and some the way he gets out seems too careless.

Sakib was not playing T20.
Rush of Blood. Totally against the play. They were on cruze control mode. Then all of a sudden....
It was Tomato's own fault.He was lazy while running the first run. Stupid. Then he had the guts to stay on the crease and stare at Mominul as if it was Mominul's fault.
Riyad in the test team because that is an insurance for our captain for not having a proper WK in the team (Anamul, Nurul or Liton). Tendulkar, De Silva, YK, Miandad, Lara, Jayawardene, Kallis, etc. played at 2nd down. The spot is reserved for Your best batsman. In Mushi's eyes, Riyad is the best for BD.