Bangladesh vs Pakistan - Two Test series

[Gethelred]

Squads:

Bangladesh (1st Test): Najmul Hossain Shanto (c), Mahmudul Hasan Joy, Shadman Islam, Mominul Haque Showrab, Mushfiqur Rahim, Litton Kumer Das, Mehidy Hasan Miraz, Taijul Islam, Nayeem Hasan, Ebadot Hossain Chowdhury, Shoriful Islam, Taskin Ahmed, Nahid Rana, Tanzid Hasan and Amite Hasan.

Pakistan: Shan Masood (c), Abdullah Fazal, Amad Butt, Azan Awais, Babar Azam, Hasan Ali, Imam-ul-Haq, Khurram Shahzad, Mohammad Abbas, Mohammad Rizwan (wk), Muhammad Ghazi Ghori (wk), Noman Ali, Sajid Khan, Salman Ali Agha, Saud Shakeel and Shaheen Shah Afridi

First test currently 2-195, Bangladesh batting.

 

[Gethelred]

Shanto gets a ton in his first innings.

 

[icyflakes]

Genuinely super excited about finding this series given its Indian Billionaire wheely bin season and there's no good cricket to watch.

Very curious to see what this pitch looks like when Pakistan bat. I've always considered Bangladesh a team of really solid players that just can't piece it together, so I'm not sure if this is a total road or the batters are simply playing well. Time will tell.

 

[Bedi]

Lovely catch to finish off Bangladesh for 413. Good innings given they were 2/30 and sent in to bat

 

[Bedi]

Genuinely super excited about finding this series given its Indian Billionaire wheely bin season and there's no good cricket to watch.

Very curious to see what this pitch looks like when Pakistan bat. I've always considered Bangladesh a team of really solid players that just can't piece it together, so I'm not sure if this is a total road or the batters are simply playing well. Time will tell.

Also good to get a look at Bangladesh prior to their tour here. Cant wait to see their two tearaway quicks on Australian pitches. Could cause us some trouble

 

[icyflakes]

Okay, maybe this is a road

 

[Bedi]

Gearing up for a decent finish, halfway through Day 4 with Bangladesh having a 120 run lead with 8 wickets in hand.
Edit: currently raining though, which sucks

 

[icyflakes]

Gearing up for a decent finish, halfway through Day 4 with Bangladesh having a 120 run lead with 8 wickets in hand.
Edit: currently raining though, which sucks

This could turn out to be a banger finish, currently 167 to win with 52 overs remaining, 7 wickets in hand.

 

[Bedi]

This could turn out to be a banger finish, currently 167 to win with 52 overs remaining, 7 wickets in hand.

Absolutely. Def one to keep an eye on. Go Bangladesh!

 

[Cold Sober]

Depends on the Pakistan money trail. It should become obvious in the first half hour.

 

[Bedi]

I once went to the cricket in Bangladesh in the early 2000s to watch a domestic 5-day game in Dhaka and reckon there were more people in attendance than now. And this against Pakistan, their most fierce rival. But I remember the game for two reasons 1) Kenyan Steve Tikolo was playing and dominating the comp like he was Bradman and 2) I sat with a young, up-and-coming cricketer who had yet to play a game, but turned out to be not only a future captain of Bangladesh, but sadly, also a match-fixer in Mohammed Ashraful. Still have my Lonely Planet signed by him!

 

[Bedi]

Test match cricket doesn't get much better than all three results in play in the final hour of play. Pakistan requiring 117 runs off 33 overs with 5 wickets in hand, but looks like the soft ***** are playing for a draw - but let's see

 

[Bedi]

152/6 now puts Bangladesh in the box seat

 

[Bedi]

Rana – who is hitting near 150km/h – tearing through Pakistan. Now into the tail. Shaun Tait with a big smile on his face

 

[Bedi]

There's the game. Famous win to Bangladesh! Very good test match

 

[PhatBoy]

Depends on the Pakistan money trail. It should become obvious in the first half hour.

Still can’t believe any bookmaker is going to be dumb enough in the age of spot betting and event betting online to try and manipulate an entire match result, which depends on buy-in, and silence, from 11 players, when they can get 1, maybe 2 max players, to simply do a couple of things and make money from some minor inconsequential events

 

[Bedi]

Still can’t believe any bookmaker is going to be dumb enough in the age of spot betting and event betting online to try and manipulate an entire match result, which depends on buy-in, and silence, from 11 players, when they can get 1, maybe 2 max players, to simply do a couple of things and make money from some minor inconsequential events

with that said i did dig around to work out why Babar Azam wasn't playing, and still seems a bit odd.

 

[Cold Sober]

Still can’t believe any bookmaker is going to be dumb enough in the age of spot betting and event betting online to try and manipulate an entire match result, which depends on buy-in, and silence, from 11 players, when they can get 1, maybe 2 max players, to simply do a couple of things and make money from some minor inconsequential events

PhatBoy PhatBoy PhatBoy, very intelligent poster, have enjoyed your posts about cricket for years.
Mate, corruption Pakistan India go hand in hand. PLEASE, I was only stating what could happen.
Uptil last night great test.
ps. haven't seen a score yet.

 

[PhatBoy]

PhatBoy PhatBoy PhatBoy, very intelligent poster, have enjoyed your posts about cricket for years.
Mate, corruption Pakistan India go hand in hand. PLEASE, I was only stating what could happen.
Uptil last night great test.
ps. haven't seen a score yet.

I don’t doubt that there is corruption floating around all the time in some form or another at some level or another.

But there’s got to be some rhyme/reason to how it happens.

Kimber posted a video not too long ago from a franchise league (might have been in Bangladesh maybe??? Or even one of the really low level ones) where it was just blatantly obvious what was going on. And it all fitted. It was a bowler bowling one of his first 1-2 overs so they could easily say ‘we are going to bet that you’re going to go for x-amount of runs’ and he knows he has to make it happen by a certain point because he may not get more overs if the captain isn’t complicit or whatever.


Whereas two nights ago in the IPL the final over went for 15 and a team loses and I saw people questioning it because there were two really REALLY tight wide calls and a very tight no ball call. In that case a bookmaker is relying on the bowler being given the last over, is relying on the game actually still GOING by that point (ie. the chasing team hasn’t won it by that stage) and the bowler has literally millimetres to work with. It’s such a fine line as to be virtually impossible to guarantee, that’s before factoring in all the things that happen just to ensure that the bowler himself is given the last over, and that the game is still alive by that point.

 

[MJG14]

Mushfiqur Rahim debuted 21 years ago this month and he's still hitting tons.

 

[cricketnut14]

long way to go but bangladesh on track winning this series v pakistan 2-0 and with a 2 test series next up against zimbabwe, bangladesh may have some decent form behind them before arriving on australian shores.

 

[PhatBoy]

Mushfiqur Rahim debuted 21 years ago this month and he's still hitting tons.

Holy shit he’s an underrated player.

Doesn’t have a good record in SEN countries - I left out the A because he’s never been lucky enough to play here thanks to the useless world cricket pecking order. But it’s hard to hold it against him when he played a combined 14 tests in two decades in those countries and he still managed to at least fire off a 150 in NZ at one point. You’d have to assume that with some more exposure he’d have been good enough to manage to make a fist of it, at least to an acceptable level for a guy who’s kept wickets for most of his career.

Pakistan staring at four straight losses home and away against Bangladesh here.

 

[Bedi]

Really need Babar Azam to go big, and Pakistan now in deep shit 4/154 still needing 283 runs

 

[Cleavy]

half way there both in terms in runs and wickets lost.

 

[PhatBoy]

Those last two wickets make it hard but Sajid Khan, d*ck that he is, can bat a bit - he has a first class hundred and decent record, and Rizwan is the sort of batsman who can make that 120 look real close real quick if he has a good hour. This is actually a lot more alive than I thought it would be