Bangladesh v England | 3rd ODI | Chittagong | 05/03/10

[Khabri420]

The third and final ODI with England 2-0 up. That doesn't tell the entire story though. Bangladesh have played good competitive cricket so far.

England are currently 119/2 after 29 overs with Bangladesh keeping things relatively tight at the moment.

Can Bangladesh end the ODI series on a high?

 

[bullseye7]

England is going merry at he moment having scored 162 for 2 in 35.6 overs. Unless their is a batting collapse a score in the range of 280 - 300 can be posted in which case it will be a tall task. Having said that BD has a batting line up till # 8 . # 9 Razzaq can also bat. They will need at least 3 batsmen to fire preferably Tamim, Shakib & Mahmudullah.

Nayeem is a good finisher and Rahim is both a grafter and can also play his shots as well.

Will need a proper game plan when they come in to bat. Also need blessing from God not to be undone by wrong umpiring decisions.

I will be happy if they play with proper game plan and just not throw their wickets and fight neck to neck.

Let's see what happens.

 

[bullseye7]

Collingwood falls for 36 to Shuvo. Score looks daunting at 170 for 3.

Dangerman Morgan comes in . Hope Umpire Tucker don't do injustice to BD with respect to Morgan. Had showered him two free gifts in the last match that cost BD the match.

 

[bullseye7]

Morgan dropped by Shuvo of Shakib. Costly miss. England doing well at 194 for 3 after 42.1 overs. Batting power play in Progress.

 

[Gotham Cronie]

Craig Kieswetter on 99*

Commentator: Crowd isn't very lively with a player on 99*. Bet they would be if it was a Bangladeshi player...

 

[Khabri420]

^^ Actually the crowd applauded when he reached his century. Good to see

 

[bullseye7]

Congrats to Craig Kieswetter on a well deserved century.Power play completed.

England well placed at 220 for 3 after 45 overs. Should easily score 260 -270
which will be challenging one

 

[Khabri420]

Abdur Razzak gets Keiswetter. England should be looking to get around the 260-270 mark.

 

[bullseye7]

Abdur Razzak gets Keiswetter. England should be looking to get around the 260-270 mark.

Depends who bowls the death over. I hope runs does not bleed in the death over as it happened last match where Shafiul was plundered for an avalanche of runs . Both Shakib and Razzaq have finished their quota of 10 overs. It will be interesting to see who will be entrusted bowling the death over. I hope BD does not repeat its mistake.

 

[bullseye7]

Dangerman Morgan gone undone by Shafiul. England well placed at 257 for 5. 270 is on the card which will be a very daunting total.

 

[Khabri420]

England finish well at 284/5. Bangladesh need 285 @ 5.7 per over. Shakib would have ideally been looking to chase a score around 250 or below.

 

[bullseye7]

England in driver's seat

Runs bleed in last 3 overs 44 runs averaging 14.66.

Over 48: 14runs
Over 49: 15 runs
Over 50: 15 runs

Poor Captaincy and game plan. Shakib had not learnt from mistakes in the last match. Should have saved one over for him and one for Razzaq for 49 and 50th over to stem flow of runs and should have used the pacers before. Why did he forget it is a spinning wicket. Why on earth would he use them at death overs?

Very disappointed with his tactics.Poor thinking indeed!

As far as I m concerned the match is out of reach once it crossed 270.

Unless a miracle happens which in all likelihood is next to impossible it will be an easy win for England.

 

[Khabri420]

Tamim gone for a duck off a poor delivery from Shahzad. Shahzad gets his first ODI wicket

 

[Amjid Javed]

Bangla 85/2 in Reply.

Aftab is batting well...

 

[Khabri420]

96/3...A needless run out at this stage for Bangladesh

 

[James]

terrible running...got no decisiveness or ability when it comes to judging the singles, we have seen many dreadful Bangladeshi run-outs on the tour already. not hard to see why their test status is often questioned!

6 an over from now on, at least...I would back us to take this one

 

[Amjid Javed]

Huge Blow for Bangla and i would say any chance of them winning game has gone. Aftab was looking good!

 

[Khabri420]

Mushfiqur gone now. Every time a partnership starts to develop, they lose a wicket.

125-4 and England currently on top

 

[Sohaib-789]

Shakib needs to score a 100 if bangalis are to win

 

[Sohaib-789]

141/4

 

[Khabri420]

A shocker from Enamul Haque to give Shakib out LBW. Ball was missing the stumps by a mile )

161/5

 

[James]

worst. LBW. Ever.

 

[Ondrive]

A shocker from Enamul Haque to give Shakib out LBW. Ball was missing the stumps by a mile )

161/5

yeah agree..

Pietersen to Shakib Al Hasan, OUT, and he's been given out! That's a bit of a howler from the umpire there. Shakib went down to sweep a ball pitched outside off stump from around the wicket. He missed the shot and was struck on the back leg, but the ball had turned away slightly after pitching and he was hit outside the line. The ball also would have missed the stumps by a good few inches, so not a great decision there, and that'll be a major blow to Bangladesh's hopes

BD-173/5

 

[James]

very tight bowling from England, Bangladesh are slipping out of contention.

 

[Robert]

RR up to 8 - no way back for the Bangles now.

 

[James]

the LBW aside, this has been a very poor Bangladeshi team performance, tactically and performance-wise. how are they still stuck on this amount of runs?

 

[Ali888]

why are asian sides so mentally feeble ?

the commentators are just aghast at the pathetic decision making

they delay and delay going for it so the required rate builds up

then they 'attempt' to go for it but don't even call for the PP !

pure village level idiocy

 

[Khabri420]

Poor attitude from Bangladesh

 

[James]

I'm sure the PP Bangla fans will blame their meek 3-0 surrender on umpires.

 

[James]

this is actually embarassing

 

[wasi90lk]

bangladesh cricket team, you can go to hell. i am done supporting these pathetic idiots who can not win in the home soil. from now on, i will support pakistan and australia.

regards,

a former bangladesh cricket fan.

 

[Muhammad]

i will support pakistan and australia.

Why do you want to prolong your suffering?

 

[wasi90lk]

Why do you want to prolong your suffering?

at least pakistan does not get whitewashed in the home soil.

 

[Khabri420]

Bangladesh lose by 45 runs. Some good work done early on gone to waste. Mahmudullah and Naeem killed the momentum.

 

[wasi90lk]

I'm sure the PP Bangla fans will blame their meek 3-0 surrender on umpires.

no i think we deserved it, we bowled bad. we had some chances but we needed to play better to win.

 

[Amjid Javed]

i really dont understand why bangladesh waited so long to take the last power play?

Their feeble and pathetic attemp in last 15 overs means they deserved to lose! No signs were show to be aggresive or even attempt to chase the total set!

 

[Amjid Javed]

England will be happy to keep their 100% Record v Bangladesh.

 

[wasi90lk]

even if bangladesh would have taken the powerplay earlier, they would have lost the game. they have a habit of losing wickets in powerplay, so it was not a bad idea to take the powerplay later. but they should have tried to rotate the strike better before the powerplay.

 

[Oxy]

bangladesh cricket team, you can go to hell. i am done supporting these pathetic idiots who can not win in the home soil. from now on, i will support pakistan and australia.

regards,

a former bangladesh cricket fan.

We could do with calm, level headed fans like you supporting our team!

 

[Oxy]

Another cringe-worthy subcontinental post match ceremony!!!

Atherton struggling to keep a straight face whilst announcing the 12 man strong party on the stage who kept waving at the camera!!!!

Why the hell would the Head of Human Resources get to present Kieswetter with a trophy??

 

[wasi90lk]

We could do with calm, level headed fans like you supporting our team!

i was trying to calm myself down for the last 2-3 months. but we lost every single game, how is that possible (specially in our own soil)?

 

[Ondrive]

i really dont understand why bangladesh waited so long to take the last power play?

Their feeble and pathetic attemp in last 15 overs means they deserved to lose! No signs were show to be aggresive or even attempt to chase the total set!

Well to be honest, dont think that BD have the power players to take advantage of the PP even if they had decided to take it earlier. Tamim and shakib are their best players in the PP..and all the others at best can bat around them ..shakib's wicket was the turning point ..but on the whole would have to say that BD did show signs of improvement but its almost like 1 step ahead and 3 steps backwards.

 

[Sohaib-789]

Aftabs run out was the turning point.

 

[Muhammad]

Aftabs run out was the turning point.

I thought Swann's introduction to the attack was the turning point.

 

[Sohaib-789]

I thought Swann's introduction to the attack was the turning point.

Bangali's play spin quite well.

 

[James]

I think that Pietersen's 8 overs for 26 and Swann's excellent series is an indication that Bengali's ability against spin is decidedly overrated.

 

[Amjid Javed]

Swann is a quality bowler and will cause most oppostion problems and should enjoy bowling in the subcontinent. KP is a donkey drop bowler and Bangla played him pretty poorly today!

 

[ads101]

I think that Pietersen's 8 overs for 26 and Swann's excellent series is an indication that Bengali's ability against spin is decidedly overrated.

Yeah but Swann is the best spinner at the moment (Murali isn't doing so well in recent times). There aren't that many quality spinners at the moment so saying a team does well against spin doesn't really mean that much.