News: Bangladesh chalk out tour plans for Ireland….

The details are here, but Bangladesh have essentially offerred Ireland a longish tour. 2 four day games, 2 three day games, and 3 ODIs. This is likely to be a 3-3.5 week long tour.
Also, it has been decided that the 20 20 championship will have a qualifier, instead of selecting the top 2 ODI teams [...]

News: Ire/Sco/NZ to play triangular….

I think this triangular has been scheduled for a while. As far as my memory goes, this was originally supposed to be Kenya, NZ and Sco in this tournament. There is a mistake in the news article stating that this will be the second ODI by Ireland against a test nation, I think they wanted [...]

Opinion: Verdict on T20

Firstly, lets not beat around the bush. T20 is the only way in which Cricket can get into the olympics. This has been the official response from the Olympic committe as well a few years ago, when they did not see that ODI was schedule friendly. So thats one main reason for looking at T20 [...]

News: Kenya bt Bang, Zim beat Sco in t20 warm ups….

Interesting that Kenya beat Bangladesh after the disasterous tournament at home in which they lost to both Uganda and Bangladesh. This was a decent victory as well, by 6 wkts. There was only 1 ball left though, but Kenya would be happy at the fact that they dismissed Bangladesh in 16.3 overs. This was the full [...]

News: Kenya, Pakistan, Uganda and Bangladesh confirm series….

A 20 20 tournament before the championships. I would be interested in seeing the match up between Pakistan and Uganda. Uganda SHOULD be outplayed, but it would be interesting to see how they can cope with Shoaib Akhtar, Umar Gul and Mohammed Asif.
I think this is a good omen for Kenya….. once again….. They have [...]

Opinion: Whats up with Bangladesh?

89 all out in the first test….. now 62 all out today in the first innings against Sri.
Sri lanka is no joke. Perhaps Bangladesh standards would have been better judged if they had played England or WI in Bangladesh. But 62 all out in similar conditions to home is once again going to bring up [...]

News: Bangladesh scrap past Canada

Canada lost it from a winning position really…….. Bilcliff and Barnett took them to nearly 200 for the loss of 1 wicket (effectively 2), but the new batsmen could not cope with the run rate……….. eventually they lost by 13 runs chasing 278. That is quite good, given that Canada is not the top associate.  [...]

Opinion: Scotland’s Bangladesh tour

First things first. As expected, the tour is getting a decent publicity in the Scottish press, much more than what the European championships got. As far as Bangladesh is concerned, the fact that these are full ODIs, has pushed Bangladesh to play their full team. The only player missing is Khaled Masud, who is probably [...]

Opinion: The self combustion of Bangladesh…..

I saw the first 20 overs of the Bangladesh innings against West indies the other day. Then I went to sleep, and it seems the players also went to sleep after that.
But the first 20 overs were phenomenal for the Bangladeshis. Aftab Ahmed, call him what you will, but he did take the WI bowling [...]

News: Bangladesh whitewash Kenya 3-0…

I think, Kenya cricket team should officially change their name to the “80/5″ team…. because that is always their scoreline, whether they are playing Canada, Bangaldesh, or anyone else……. perhaps they should experiment with reversing their batting order…… they will probably end up being 80/5 again, but at least all their batsmen would be coming [...]