Bangladesh In Australia

Originally posted by sam_ahmed hoping for BAN to put up a fight, they are now, what ZIM were in the past.

Disagree. Zimbabwe were a whole lot better side than BD. Those Flowers, Whittlas, Wishart, Blignaut, Cambpel were good enough players. and a Zim victory was not categorized as an upset one for a good part of 90's. Whereas BD are total crap.

My mistake Sledge. He wasnt a mug with the bat either. There were many others as well. Neil Johnson, Strang, Price, Branders to name a few.

Another rubbish irritating game of cricket is over. Australia smashed BD by 8 wickets. I seriously wish from all my heart, that ICC steps up and relegate such teams to a sub-division. Give them time and whoever does well can have a promotion.

I think an under 16 Australian team would beat the Bangladeshi team at this moment. Simply rubbish!

Mugabe's henchmen that run Zimbabwean cricket are Zanu-PF members. It's a political appointment and both the top men are seriously dodgy. An independent audit of their books showed that a great deal of ICC and TV sponsor's money had disappeared and the top men were the main suspects. The resulting meeting of the ICC lead to a massive division in the set up , India and SA backed Zimbabwe and Australia , England and NZ wanted retribution. The latter lost and Zimbabwe have not receieved any sanction from the ICC.
          England have won a small victory in having Zimbabwe removed from next year's T20 WC because for the 1st time the British Government acted positively and said that the Zimbabwean players would not be granted visas.  This action was taken because of Mugabe's failure to relinquish power after losing the election and for human rights offences against opposition supporters.
      That Bvute still holds down a job and attends ICC meetings is disgraceful , the man is nothing but a thug.


Edited by Sledger - 04 September 2008 at 1:24pm

thanks a lot for the info sledge,  yes, zuhair i've got my answer now and i also hope ZIM ckt comes back to life again.  i was a big fan of andy blignaut, and i thought he and sean ervine were two of the most promising allrounders in the game, it's really sad that their int'l careers ended the way they did.

Edited by sam_ahmed - 04 September 2008 at 5:01pm

I think Raqibul or Shakib should be given the captaincy. If they made Tamim the captain i think it will damage his batting.

Originally posted by sam_ahmed is there any chance for the mugabe regime to end any time soon?

  He lost the election and is still clinging to power. He's threatening to form a cabinet without any MDC members - that could lead to real strife , the man is clearly insane.


Edited by Sledger - 08 September 2008 at 6:08am

If the ICC hasn't got a rule that says ICL players can't play for your country, then the boards should do as they want.

That's true Tykey. It is high time that Cricket Boards get out of the influence of BCCI. This has not done them any good. But this is least likely to happen I am afraid.

Just hope to see ICC react

Well, if those bangladeshi players retire, Bangladesh needs to be sacked from Test cricket, surely!

very good post tyke, apparently the BCB has asked the remaining players (likes of tamim, shakib, mortaza, razzak, etc...) to commit that they won't be joining the ICL and it seems they have comitted to the BCB.

Originally posted by sam_ahmed being a cricket fan, i'm happy to know that symonds might come back, but as i said, the entire AUS team no longer has respect in my eyes, so i really don't care wheather he comes back or not.

 Sam , schizophrenia can be treated nowadays. Either you're happy Symonds is coming back or you're happy that he isn't - you can't have it both ways!

yes, i'm happy that arguably the best ODI player in the world at the moment might be in action again, but i am least bothered, meaning it won't hurt me or i will not feel bad at all, even if his career ends after that fishing incident.

by the way, wonderful gesture by the BCCI as they have assured the BCB that from the next IPL season more bangladeshi cricketers will be auctioned and from 2010, we'll have one team from BAN participating in the champions league.

Edited by sam_ahmed - 18 September 2008 at 6:54pm