9th National Cricket League (2007-2008)

[Murad]

Champion Khulna Team.

Mosharraf Hossain grabbed six wickets in Rajshahi's second innings, Rajshahi vs Dhaka, National Cricket League, January 7, 2008

Tareq Aziz in his delivery stride against Sylhet, Chittagong Division v Sylhet Division, Fatullah, January 6, 2008

[One World]

Umpiring anyone? A probable draw was tilted to Khulna's way! 90.1 overs were bowled just to ensure a LBW which was never there.

[pervez mia]

Agreed. Anything more then 5 teams is too many and the system here in Australia is almost perfect and is by far the best domestic competition in the world. If you have too many teams you are breeding mediocre players who will drag down the standard of cricket (county league for example). And from what i saw yesterday the FC comp in BD can ill afford to drop their standards any further.
Having only six teams will make the competition for spots very hard and players will feel the need to improve their cricket to keep their place.
The domestic system in Australia is the main reason why they have very good backup playes who fit into the national without any problems. Guys like Hussey, Clarke, Hayden and Jacques had to work very hard to earn their spots. Something players in Bangladesh don't know how to do.

[pervez mia]

sorry i meant 6 teams...

[fan_frm_the_uk]

Originally Posted by One World
Umpiring anyone? A probable draw was tilted to Khulna's way! 90.1 overs were bowled just to ensure a LBW which was never there.

is if u were there as 3rd umpire

[One World]

Originally Posted by fan_frm_the_uk
is if u were there as 3rd umpire

Bro, its an intelligent anticipation. I read the Ittefaq, the Inqilab, tigercricket.com and another paper I do not remember. It came out clear that there was huge disappointment actually last two lbw decisions one of which was right after the estimated overs were over.

[pervez mia]

if anyone is interested they are showing the dhaka rajshahi one dayer on btv world.

[fan_frm_the_uk]

Originally Posted by One World
Bro, its an intelligent anticipation. I read the Ittefaq, the Inqilab, tigercricket.com and another paper I do not remember. It came out clear that there was huge disappointment actually last two lbw decisions one of which was right after the estimated overs were over.

If rajshahi were in khulna's position u would hear the same thing. If khulna had to get a benifited decision from the umpire, they wouldnt have to wait till the end. Khulna's win wasnt a fluke anyway, they been on the top for last few rounds. Rajshahi is responsible for their own downfall, according to some newspaper the pitch wasnt that unplayable. Where Khulna bounced back in last inns. They didnt win Title just because of two decisions, they had to get point from other matches as well. They deserve some credit, even after half of the squad were serving national duty, they managed to remain on top. appreciation any one??

[Sohel]

Khulna won the FC title as expected, but Rajshahi's List-A triumph is a bit of a surprise for me personally. Congrats to Khulna and Pilot ...

Had a chance to watch Milon pretty closely thanks to BTV World. He is DEFINITELY back with the bat. His fielding needs to improve a bit though. I really hope Coach Siddons gets a good look at him. If Milon manages to improve his bowling and fielding, he'll give Farhad a good run for his money in a year or two. Good news for our cricket.

[Gowza]

Barisal Vs Khulna
Barisal 265/6 Over -50; Hannan 4, Nasiruddin 4, Kamrul 43, Roquibul 133, Raisul 0, Abul Bashar 0, Arafat 47*, Shaheen 16*; Ziaur 2/76, Nazmus 1/36, Monjurul 1/39, Nahidul 1/51
Khulna 217/3 Over -41; Nazmus 21, Mostafizur 36, Monirul 0, Imrul 96*, Sahagir 59*; Monwar 1/30, Sumon 1/40

Dhaka Vs Rajshahi
Dhaka 254/8 Over -50; Javed 29, Anwar 65, Mosharraf 10, Mehrab jr 0, Mahmudullah 52, Nadif 34, Nazmul 42*, Rafiq 9, Sharif 6; Saqlain 4/52, Mushfiqur 2/52, Delwar 1/26, Jubaer 1/36
Rajshahi 114/4 Over -34; Shakil 27, Robiul 10, Mizanur 5, Farhad 11, Mahbubul 39*, Naeem 10*; Mosharraf 1/17

Sylhet Vs Chittagong
Sylhet 198/10 Over -50; Golam Mabud 69, Sharifullah 28, Rana 20; Tareq 3/25, Kamrul 2/34
Chittagong 202/3 Over -30.1; Nazimuddin 33, Elias 8, Mahbubul 1, Faisal 71*, Dhiman 73*; Golam Rahman 1/21, Saif 1/24, Rashedur 1/30
Chittagong won by 7 wickets
MOM-Dhiman Ghosh

[Gowza]

good to see some of the young guys doing well. congrats to raqibul on his 1st list A century. imrul, raqibul and faisal all continuing some good one-day form. nice to see dhiman and nazmul doing well also with the bat.

[Gowza]

Barisal Vs Khulna
Barisal 265/6 Over -50; Hannan 4, Nasiruddin 4, Kamrul 43, Roquibul 133, Raisul 0, Abul Bashar 0, Arafat 47*, Shaheen 16*; Ziaur 2/76, Nazmus 1/36, Monjurul 1/39, Nahidul 1/51
Khulna 268/3 Over -47.4; Nazmus 21, Mostafizur 36, Monirul 0, Imrul 133*, Sahagir 75*; Monwar 1/30, Sumon 1/60
Khulna won by 7 wickets
MOM-Imrul Kayes

Dhaka Vs Rajshahi
Dhaka 254/8 Over -50; Javed 29, Anwar 65, Mosharraf 10, Mehrab jr 0, Mahmudullah 52, Nadif 34, Nazmul 42*, Rafiq 9, Sharif 6; Saqlain 4/52, Mushfiqur 2/52, Delwar 1/26, Jubaer 1/36
Rajshahi 203/10 Over -48.5; Shakil 27, Robiul 10, Mizanur 5, Farhad 11, Mahbubul 41, Naeem 43, Mushfiqur 4, Jubaer 0, Shahzada 41, Delwar 12, Saqlain 0*; Rafique 3/29, Mehrab jr 2/53, Mahbubul 1/26, Mosharraf 1/26, Sharif 1/37
Dhaka won by 51 runs
MOM-Anwar Hossain

[fan_frm_the_uk]

Thanx to Khulna..proved their worth after winning the 4dayers.
As expected, this was the most exiting national league. Thanx to all players, officials, media and ofcourse the supporters. Khulna, Dhaka and Rajshahi were really close, Chittagong did so-so, Sylhet was bit dissapointing and ofcourse Barisal was a surprise pack.

[Sohel]

FINALLY Nirala gets his first List-A ton, and Imrul gets another one. Good to see Dhiman with some runs also.

NCL is too short given our domestic realities. Reformatting FC and List A matches to a series of 3 as opposed to just home and away is needed IMHO. 15 FC and List-A matches as opposed to 10 each will help.

[sadi]

Barisal's bowling must be really weak. They couldn't defend a good total of 268 and Khulna lost only 3 wkts chasing.

[Eshen]

Imrul Kayes targeted 5 centuries this season, he just fell one short.

Top scorers in the list-A league -

Imrul Kayes - 486
Raqibul Hasan - 432
Faisal Hossain - 430
Alok Kapali - 350
Naeem Islam - 333

[Gowza]

imo the best thing about raqibul's century is that his strike rate was over 100 and that less than half his runs were made in boundaries which means he hit a lot of 1s, 2s, and 3s. and i had no idea nazmul had such a high one-day strike rate (148.91 in 14 matches). also, something interesting about imrul is that he has 2 not outs in 15 list A matches and being an opener it's not easy to survive the whole innings.

[Murad]

Imrul Kayesh's List A average is awesome after this not out century. He's now averaging 54+ with a strike rate rate over 85. He will give a be a great player in the future. If he keeps up the consistency then he will be in the National team in 2/3 years from now. He's also having a good average in the FC matches.

Dhiman Gosh is another one who is having good time in the shorter version of the game. He's averaging 35+ in the List A matches. He can make runs fast unlike Mushfique who is a JO. He's also having good time with his keeping.

I think he's ready to replace Mushfique in the National team. He has played 35 matches and had toured many countries with the Academy/A team. Mushfique is stuggling with his keeping and batting since he started his international career.

[Murad]

Raqibul Hasain will give hard time to Rajin & other middle order batsmen in the Test team. He's averaging in 40's in both version of the game. His only problem is his strike rates in List A matches. I think he has improved it in this league by a lot. Hope to see more improvements from him.

[Gowza]

dhiman ghosh has done really well with the bat over his NCL career averaging 46.53 in one-day NCL matches. but only averages 12.80 for Bangladesh A in one-dayers however all of his Bangladesh A one-day matches were played before april of 2005 so you probably can't take much notice of those stats now being that it's been over 2 years since he last played for Bangladesh A in one-dayers and he's probably improved a lot since then.

[Gowza]

Originally Posted by muradnyc
Raqibul Hasain will give hard time to Rajin & other middle order batsmen in the Test team. He's averaging in 40's in both version of the game. His only problem is his strike rates in List A matches. I think he has improved it in this league by a lot. Hope to see more improvements from him.

that's why i mentioned that the best thing about his one-day century was that it was at more than a run a ball proving that he can still play at a quicker tempo and score runs. also he can obviously rotate the strike (or at least score a lot of 1s, 2s and 3s) being that most of his runs didn't come from boundaries, it's good to know he doesn't have to rely on boundaries to score runs.

[Eshen]

Originally Posted by muradnyc
His only problem is his strike rates in List A matches. I think he has improved it in this league by a lot. Hope to see more improvements from him.

Raqibul is maintaining a healthy OD strike rate ever since he started batting in the middle order (from the last season to be precise). He was a slow scorer when he was an opener.

[Rifat]

funny how Dhiman Ghosh is well responding to Mushfique's lack of form

[Gowza]

Originally Posted by Eshen
Raqibul is maintaining a healthy OD strike rate ever since he started batting in the middle order (from the last season to be precise). He was a slow scorer when he was an opener.

thanks for that bit of info, hadn't realised that. i never really cottoned on to the idea of raqibul being an opener, anyway i hope he remains in the middle order because he's doing a pretty good job in there.

[Gowza]

Originally Posted by rifat
funny how Dhiman Ghosh is well responding to Mushfique's lack of form

would definately like to see him in one-dayers and T20s, might be better to have pilot in the test team for a bit longer, not sure if dhiman's batting is quite ready for test cricket yet. otherwise stick with rahim in tests, but dhiman for the shorter matches would be nice to see imo.