Bangladesh in NewZealand

Vettori seemed adament that he wanted a stronger performance from his bowlers. To be perfectly honest, some changes will have to be made  if they intend to dent the England top order e.g. - dropping O'brien.

Pretty sad indictment on the state of New Zealand cricket that, when o'brian out bowls anyone. 

I think Martin would take offence being labeled as useless as cumming. In the past i've backed cumming because he's a scrapper, but when you have 2 failures against bangladesh...it forced me to change my mind. 

NZ could borrow some Aussie quicks. We have a whole lot who are probably test class who can't get a game.

he's certainly one, the best in domestic cricket last season by a country mile!

My thoughts were pretty much correct Bangladesh bundled out for 143 leaving NZ in another fantastic position. Now as i said before they need to knuckle down with the bat especially the top order who looked a bit vunerable in the 1st test.

Bangladesh really needs to sort out their batting. They need to find something in between defense and attack. Either they get into shell or sometimes they over attack. Ashraful is definitely not doing his reputation any good. He has a lot of talent but those moments of brilliance are very less. Aftab is certainly the worst batsman I have seen. He simply doesn't know his role in the batting line up. He doesn't know what approach to take. Their openers are definitely showing how inconsistent their whole batting his. Martin was brilliant. He should definitely be in the one day squad too. 

he was talking about the first test.

I was to busy actually playing cricket to see/hear any of the game but from what i've been told, Fulton was a bit unlucky to be LBW, though Ashraful was unlucky to be given out so i guess its only fair. 

I was so angry about that, fleming should know better than to risk a big shot like that.

Its not really good enough that no one, let alone someone from the top order didn't get a 100. Fleming really should have pressed on instead of being an idiot and getting out like that. For me Cumming has to go now, his 42 was ugly and to be honest he looked uncoordinated.
Bangladesh were dreadfully behind the over rate, 1.5 hours max play left today and still 24 overs to bowl.
With a lead of 250 though, and a batsmen down with one of the openers breaking a thumb i expect an easy innings win.

The bad decisions are just increasing mate. Technology will come eventually if bad decisions don't stop. I expect them to continue at a healthy rate. Umpires these days just don't seem professional now. You cannot trust them anymore. Well I can't. Sinclair dissapointed me. He got so many centuries. Any batsman would have fancied his chances of a century after so much luck. Vettori is turning into a batsman now. His innings was spectacular. Shame he missed out on a century. 

NZ should be able to wrap it up tomorrow, looks as if the Bangladeshi batting is going to fail yet again. Also, Cumming has to go!! Bring in How!

Originally posted by cricketluva Originally posted by canadiancricket I was expecting a bit more from them.    Is that meant to be a joke?

No it's not. They are way more capable than they showed. I think it was in 2006 when they came close to winning a test against Australia and on numerous occasions they have done quite well. Just how Tamim and Siddique played in the first test showed what they are capable of.

well sam they have a first innings lead of 150 or so but then played badly in the second dig. They had Aus at 6 for 231 in second innings too with 70 needed to win but Ponting made a brilliant century. They could have won had they held Ponting's catch with only 2 tail enders and the bowlers bowling well. But their fielding standards let them down badly. Pretty close for me according to Banglas standards. Lee held fort at other end otherwise only the tail was remaining. 

Edited by canadiancricket - 13 January 2008 at 9:04pm