Match Thread | Zimbabwe vs Bangladesh | Mirpur, Dhaka | 2020

[Jemisi]

Wow, we managed to take 6.

[jaybro]

Pretty hard to watch today

Bangladesh will be happy with their work, but this is a false economy, they’ll never score easier runs.

Can the boys bat out a draw?? They’ve been in the field for nearly two days usually that’s hard to come back from.

They’ve blown some really good chances to draw Tests in recent times (Pak 2013, NZ 16, SL 2016 (both Tests), BD 2018, SL 2020) let’s hope they can hold on in this Match

[Mr Twig]

lol Tiripano

[foreignfield]

Disaster!

[jaybro]

Tiripano is like your favourite old race horse

But it times to send him to pasture

[sloandog]

This is Zimbabwe 2004 style stuff, appalling scorecard.

[Jemisi]

[Kriterion_BD]

As disappointing as it is to have a scoreline like this, I'm still happy for Mushfiqur and Shanto. Both are good players and hopefully they can help Bangladesh get back on track in tests. Kriterion, is Shanto likely to play in the limited overs stuff or is he a five day specialist? From this game and the Pakistan series he seems quite talented.

I think he will definitely play the ODIs.

A little history on Shanto. At 21, he's still a very young player. He first came into the limelight several years ago. Its been so long in fact, that I don't recall when or where I was when we first started talking about him. He must have been 14 or 15 at the time so around 2013-14 perhaps. But I feel like Shanto has bee talked about since 2010 or so. Can't be that early. He was head and shoulders above his peers at that time and was probably the youngest player we've had on the U-19 team. He debuted in the 2nd Test in NZ back in 2017 and though he didn't score much I was quite impressed with his technique. He didn't get another shot until the 2018 Asia Cup, where he struggled heavily, and then continued to struggle heavily in the 2018 series vs Zimbabwe. At that stage, some 15 months ago, I would not have rated him very highly. However, he must have gone back to the nets, because he scored heavily in our first class leagues and got recalled in the Rawalpindi Test against a decent Pakistani attack. Was easily our best batsman in that Test, and hit a really nice 71 here vs Zimbabwe.

I'm very excited about his potential batting at #3 in our Test team, because it will let Mominul go back to his natural #4 spot. I also think he could be a special ODI player for us, so I hope he gets to bat in the top 3 there as well.

[tgk]

9/2 with two days left. Yay.

BT needs to be at his absolute best, Kasuza needs to stick with him.

[ZIMDOGGY]

Anyone know why BT came ahead of Craig?