Congrats, brother. You have whitewashed AFG here without Zawad Abrar and Jishan Alam. Never seen such a dominant Bangladesh side
Bangla brothers are head and shoulders above Afghanistan. Their aim should be to compete against Pak & SL and be the 2nd or 3rd best team of Asia.
Yes that's obvious. Bangladesh has been playing superb T20 off late which is quite amazing and to be honest I m surprised. Their body language, confidence is so high on the field. Well done
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I m so much impressed with Saif.
Saif Hasan is a very good prospect for Bangladesh. You guys need to really develop him well.
He has changed his game, worked really hard, beefed up quite a bit, definitely is getting the gains last some years in domestic comps and now internationally. Long may it continue.
I hope he can become like Shai Hope for BD. He was not even in contention for T20 up till recently. He has played some scintillating sixes. He also doesnt seem to carry the "daal chawal" genes like most of our Cricketers.
Growing up watching BD over the years esp in the 00s, Bd used to have one or two military medium type pacers for both formats at the time, there was hardly pace anyways not many pacers over 6ft. I used to wonder when will BD have decent pacey tall quicks who can bowl 140+. Now BD has many pacers 6ft plus, they even have different pacers for different formats theres even more in the back up like Ibadat who was a regular before his last injury.
BD never has a generation where both batting and bowling is at their peak. In 2019, batting was the best with peak Shakib Al Hasan. I even remember Hussey saying BD batting was as good as Australia after this WC'19 match. However, bowling was super dud with limping Mashrafe.
ODI series coming up between these two teams
I'm actually puzzled as to how Afghanistan cricket works.
they do have first class and List A matches going on in Afg. There is a tacit understanding with Taliban for all the outward rhetoric about sports, they will let the teams continue as they are. Once the players start doing well they free travel outside to participate in matches.
Interesting. I wonder how all this is working. How's the money getting in? How are players getting out? Who's negotiating this with the Taliban?
Why no Saif Hasan in ODIs? Could be a great replacement for shanto
AFG is actually doing pretty decently economy wise. They are obviously not growing too much due to restrictions on women in workforce and education, but they are doing decently. The situation is stable, China and India are back supporting small projects. China is also working with AFG to export their natural resources. Taliban is also building some infrastructure including canals and highways. So there is a semblance of stability and growth. Although India doesn't recognize them formally, informally there is a lot of diplomatic and economic cooperation. There is also cross border trade with Pak, Iran and to some extend with China, along with few central Asian Countries. Most of the players get paid in USD and have residence in India, Pak and Dubai. All their top players play in IPL which also means there is some money flowing to AFG cricket board from IPL to provide them NOC. So they have ways to survive. Expect in few more years Taliban to get more legitimacy from India and China which will pave way for them to be back internationally
Shanto s fine for ODI. Tanzid need to take a hike. He got enough chances for ODI. He should just stick to T20 for now.
