Bangladesh defeat New Zealand by 5 wickets to win the Ireland Tri-Nation Series

[czar]

Another flop performance by Ireland. Does ICC want extra funds to spend on such a useless team?

 

[Specialisttailender]

I feel Ireland went through the same phase as Kenya did in early 2000s. Shouldn't have been rewarded with a test membership.

 

[Dios]

Ireland haven't progressed the way people thought they would a few years ago. One would think that getting a core group of players in Sterling, Kevin O'Brien, Dockrell, Rankin and slowly getting experience would allow them to build on impressive performances over the years and perform at the highest level more consistently but that hasn't happened. It seems that Afghanistan is way ahead at this stage. Where did things go wrong for Ireland [MENTION=136108]Donal Cozzie[/MENTION]?

 

[Markhor]

Superb death bowling by Bangladesh today. NZ looked on course to score 300 plus.

 

[Executioner]

Good series for us. We have most cases covered except for muscle in the lower order.

Bangladesh will head into the CT as the number 6th ranked side. Someone complained that with Bangladesh the CT is now a substandard tournament.

 

[Dios]

As expected the haters are missing from the thread.

 

[MenInG]

Wow amazing result and sets up BD for a great CT17

 

[Shutdown Corner]

Wow amazing result and sets up BD for a great CT17

this was a NZ A side...but always good to win.

 

[GenericBrand]

Title incorrect, NZ still won the tri-series

 

[GoUgandaCranes]

congratulations bd fans.

a few more wins and top five will be extremely realistic.

 

[Nil Dhumrojal]

Good win but not happy with fielding and need some fine tune with bowling in CT if we want to go beyond semi. Hope BD will get to semi at least.

 

[Nil Dhumrojal]

Congrats to all my fellow bd posters for the historic win and rising to rank number SIX for the first time in our entire cricketing history. Congratulations to all bd people.

 

[StreetSmart]

Wonderful game and I wish best of luck to Bangladesh they deserve to be number 6 side and I can see them improving their rankings in future awesome and learning lesson for Pakistani team play with honour and play for country Well Done Bangla Bros

 

[MMHS]

I think Kiwis won the trophy for their duel win over pathetic Ireland (sorry, can't help), while we had a wash out. But, Kiwis won the 2nd match by 150+ margin, therefore, I guess even without wash out, Kiwis would have won it for NRR.

I had a prediction, probably similar time last year, that boys will enter CT at 6th spot, which they managed, so kudos. But, 50% match fee of entire team & rest 50% for those 4 should be taken off for today's fielding effort; & then Sabbir should be docked 50% of next match for that run-out.............

 

[Sherlock]

Congrats to my Bangladeshi brothers.

Thoroughly deserved.

 

[Bhaag Viru Bhaag]

Not surprised. Congrats to Bangladesh and their fans.

 

[troodon]

RoshoGolla fest in BD right now. :shakob

 

[Nil Dhumrojal]

Not surprised. Congrats to Bangladesh and their fans.

Thanks viru bhai

 

[Energetic]

New Zealand were missing their best 2 batsman. I know they were missing their premier fast bowlers, but Bangladesh would've scored more anyway if they had played. I wouldn't look too much into that win after what happened when Bangladesh toured New Zealand earlier. I still, however, think that Bangladesh will beat the likes of England and Australia.

 

[Coconut]

Congratulations [MENTION=79064]MMHS[/MENTION] bhai and [MENTION=137485]Dios[/MENTION]. Fizz was the main difference between the two teams.

But Bangla still haven't managed to find a way to fix their recently developed problem which is losing wickets in clusters and handing over the initiative to the opposition team.

Even today majority of the Bangla batters gifted their wickets and made the chase unnecessarily complicated.

 

[MMHS]

Congratulations [MENTION=79064]MMHS[/MENTION] bhai and [MENTION=137485]Dios[/MENTION]. Fizz was the main difference between the two teams.

But Bangla still haven't managed to find a way to fix their recently developed problem which is losing wickets in clusters and handing over the initiative to the opposition team.

Even today majority of the Bangla batters gifted their wickets and made the chase unnecessarily complicated.

Thanks.

I think, still our biggest problem is pace bowling & a recent epidemic - dropping sitters.

Regarding batting, I actually think it's the least of problems. Today, we had Nasir at 8 & in last season of Dhaka Premier League (Top tier of List A), he managed a stats like 75/100 for 500+ runs. Sabbir got out to a stupid run-out otherwise, it was a 45 overs' target.

Our batting strategy is to maximize the batting depth, which has Mashrafee/Miraj at 9, therefore team bats to maintain a decent RR all through - in other way, you'll hardly see BD asking reaching 7.50+, or RR falling below 4.50 batting first. The batting unit plays with a short target like 5/10 overs & try to keep up with the asking - if that results a collapse like 10/3 or 2-3 quick wickets in cluster, so it be - in any way, we are not going to chase 100 in last 10, or 170 in last 20, even with 10 wickets at hand. This is why, often it looks like there is a batting collapse, but team plays actually to their limit - those collapses can be avoided, but that'll end like Misbah's Pakistan - without the hitting power of Afridi/Umar at 6/7. Often cluster of wickets doesn't drop the RR (increase asking), rather it increases the losing margin.

Chasing 275+, I don't think we have the power game to chase the target from say 150/1 after 35, rather it has to be like 180/3; therefore against better teams, once the target goes beyond comfort zone, you'll see us losing by big margin most times, a lot of times, team can end-up with a "respectable" defeat. Management is trying to find couple of big hitting all-rounders for No. 7 & 8 - if that's found, this'll be one of the best batting line-up in ODI. BD top & middle order batting line-up has one of the best shot productivity (opposite of Dot Ball %) - just missing couple of power hitters at late middle order.

 

[shaz619]

I think Kiwis won the trophy for their duel win over pathetic Ireland (sorry, can't help), while we had a wash out. But, Kiwis won the 2nd match by 150+ margin, therefore, I guess even without wash out, Kiwis would have won it for NRR.

I had a prediction, probably similar time last year, that boys will enter CT at 6th spot, which they managed, so kudos. But, 50% match fee of entire team & rest 50% for those 4 should be taken off for today's fielding effort; & then Sabbir should be docked 50% of next match for that run-out.............

BD fans have finally grown a pair of marbles huh there was a time when you were the Ireland, nice to see you lot so humble hehe [MENTION=136108]Donal Cozzie[/MENTION]

 

[Aman]

Title is wrong, NZ had won the series before the match [MENTION=93712]MenInG[/MENTION]

Are there warm up games for the CT? Key players still need to get some game time in these conditions.

 

[MMHS]

BD fans have finally grown a pair of marbles huh there was a time when you were the Ireland, nice to see you lot so humble hehe [MENTION=136108]Donal Cozzie[/MENTION]

I think, I do give deserving respect to every team. Recently, IRL played well against AFG, and they did get my appreciation. At home, against BD & understrength NZ, this was a shockingly pathetic performance. Once the tourists a acclimatized with condition - they lost one inside 27 overs & the other one by 150+ margin. Also, I see that IRL hasn't progress much, in fact declined in last few years in terms of individual player quality & now, the excuse of talent drain to England isn't applicable.

Another major concern is, despite being one of the richest country (probably among top 10 in terms of per capita GDP), their domestic tournament was sponsored from A to Z by BD brands - this actually indicates very little to almost nonexisting mass public interest for cricket (and there was no major Football or Rugby match that day). This is one area BD was always well, well covered, which eventually resulted in on-field improvement.

Honestly speaking, I was a bit disappointed to see probably 80% BD crowd in BD-IRL match - this doesn't give confidence. 22 years back, BD made the final of emerging team tournament against IND A (led by Dravid) - 35K capacity stadium was sold out with in 6 hours & some last minute tickets went for Tk 2000 (20 times) at black market.

 

[BDfanforever]

No point calling Ireland pathetic when everyone knows they are still a developing side. Their crowds dont care about cricket, so thats why I am not sure if Cricket will grow in Ireland.

 

[Ashraful_Rox]

It's good that Soumya scored a 0, he is in good form, he's going to destroy someone's career

 

[hadi123]

Well done Bangladesh. Does anyone have any highlights please?

 

[dauntless]

Good to see Bangladesh winning they have an exciting team!

 

[Nil Dhumrojal]

Well done Bangladesh. Does anyone have any highlights please?

https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=rcaEUk0peXg

https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=Pz5HuU5FekY

 

[czar]

No point calling Ireland pathetic when everyone knows they are still a developing side. Their crowds dont care about cricket, so thats why I am not sure if Cricket will grow in Ireland.

Why even invest in a useless country whose people don't even care about the sport and never will?

Invest the same resources in a country like Nepal which will lead to some good returns.

 

[cricketerB94]

I thought NZ won the tri series.

 

[Nil Dhumrojal]

[MENTION=93712]MenInG[/MENTION] would you please edit the title. BD didn't win the series.

 

[Shutdown Corner]

Thread title needs correcting...NZ won the tri series.