Bangladesh Watch 2015-2019

[foreignfield]

Unbelievable news! Taskin reported for chucking. I am enraged. No way to prove it of course, but my personal belief is that this is in response to the viral image of Taskin holding MS Dhoni's severed head. The timing and circumstance is extremely coincidental.

"Suspect action" is the right term for this, and I don't mean Taskin's bowling.

[Kriterion_BD]

Arafat Sunny is getting tested today or tomorrow. He may very well fail. Taskin gets tested after the final vs Oman, will be very surprised if he is not cleared, and should hopefully be cleared before our game vs Pakistan.

[CrimsonAvenger]

Reporting Taskin is nonsense. Haven't watched enough of Sunny so no comments. And how come every case has a different cutoff date and seemingly different rules and regulations in terms of getting tested etc.?

[Kriterion_BD]

Reporting Taskin is nonsense. Haven't watched enough of Sunny so no comments. And how come every case has a different cutoff date and seemingly different rules and regulations in terms of getting tested etc.?

Sunny is most likely a chucker. At any rate he wouldnt be a loss because another spinner will just take his place.

The reporting deadlines are 7 days during a tournament for obvious reasons. Otherwise I think its 14 or 21 days.

[sloandog]

I'll cry like a bitch if my boy Taskin is banned

[Kriterion_BD]

I'll cry like a bitch if my boy Taskin is banned

His test was yesterday...no idea when the results will be out. 98% sure he will pass. But you never know.

[Kriterion_BD]

Ugly game vs Pakistan...really did not expect them to beat us! I guess it happens.

[sloandog]

Ugly game vs Pakistan...really did not expect them to beat us! I guess it happens.

Afridi actually had a good knock

[Kriterion_BD]

I'll cry like a bitch if my boy Taskin is banned

Kleenex?

Many BD fans, myself included, are crying conspiracy. Here is what we know so far:

1) Taskin's stock (good length) delivery and his yorkers were both found legal.

2) He was asked to bowl 9 bouncers. 6 of those were legal, 3 were not.

3) but in the match in which he was reported, he did not bowl any bouncers, meaning he only bowled legal deliveries. So reporting him is more probative than diagnostic.

My gut feeling is most seamers probably chuck their bouncers, yet Taskin is being singled out.

The BCB has filed an appeal but I would shocked if anything came of it. IMO, Taskin should perhaps get retested outside of India and see if his bouncers are clean. I personally cannot believe an action as pure as his is suspect.

[Kriterion_BD]

Sensational collapse yesterday...to lose with jut 2 runs needed off 3 balls with two set batsmen at the crease. Wasn't even good bowling...two full tosses hit high in the air when all they needed was a couple singles.

Surprisingly the crushing feeling dissipated about 15 mins later for me. But most BD fans still can't believe what happened the next day. I won't be too harsh on Mushfiq and Mahmudullah as theynhave won us innnumerble games in the past and will do so in the future. But beating India in India would have been sweet.