Since the past five years or so, Bangladesh's only win used to come against Zimbabwe to a greater extent and very rarely Bangladesh was found to beat strong nations like Australia and India. Now, with Zimbabwe going out of focus, it looks like West Indies have taken their place when they had a hard fought victory against Bangladesh at Dhaka yesterday. There is no doubt that Bangladesh are not the easiest of the opposition to defeat or rather thrash like they were some eight years ago. They had a win in the only T20 game that was played a couple of days back.
In ODIs, Bangladesh are not far behind the West Indies and one need not find it tough to have betters putting their money on the game. Yesterday, the West Indies piled up 298 runs on the board with century from Lendl Simmons who top scored with 122 followed by Marlon Samuels' 71 off 78 balls. The result is not a tough one to guess but the way matches have been won by West Indies speaks for it. One can go through the entire West Indies team to see majority of the players having their talk only with the bat and the team lacks bowlers.
With as many as eight batsmen in their team, the total should have crossed 350 which didn't happen whatsoever. A score of 298 is no doubt a decent one but not with 8 batsmen in their side and not against a team like Bangladesh. Looking at their bowling chart, it can be said that Bangladesh are no short of talented players but what they lack at the moment is a well planning whether it is defending a total or chasing one. The Bangladeshi captain had only 3 of his bowlers bowling their complete quota of 10 overs out of the 7 bowlers who made it there.
Alok Kapali who went for just 4 runs an over was allowed to bowl just 6 overs while Abdur Razzak bowled 9 overs despite going in for over 7.00 runs an over. So was the case regarding Naeem Islam and Nasir Hossain who were given to bowl just 3 and 2 overs respectively. Bangladesh could have and should have won with the West Indian side having a scarcity of bowlers in their side needless to be said. But, fortunately, the West Indies' bowlers did a fab job in the end with every bowler having his share to the team. You might be interested in Movies reviews here after read and you can watch the movie at theater.
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Friday, 14 October 2011
Sunday, 14 June 2009
South Africa As A Team
Well last night, in the first encounter of the day namely the match between the West Indies and South Africa, South Africa not only maintained their winning habit and in the process continue their winning streak to be one of the teams in the tournament that have been unbeaten so far, but also showed the world once again that cricket is a game consisting of eleven players and not just a bowler and a batsman like the West Indies did. If one could give a close look at the scorecard of the match between the West Indies and South Africa, it could be easily observed that if not for Lendi Simmons, none of the West Indian batsmen really stood to the challenge.
Out of the score of 163 put up on the board by the West Indies, 77 of them solely belonged to Lendi Simmons. Meaning that the remaining eight batsmen put up a mere 86 runs at just above 10 a piece. It was frustrating to see just three of the West Indian batsmen cross the double digit mark, with one of them (Suliemann Benn) being a tail ender. There were solid batsmen in Ramnaresh Sarwan, Chris Gayle, Fletcher, Dwayne Bravo and Shivnarine Chandrapaul who could have shown their powers with the willow. But, unfortunately that was not the case. Had one of these aforementioned batsmen stood to the Proteas' bowling, the result might have been different I guess.
With just one batsman firing, the West Indies came so close to the target of 185 imposed by South Africa, one can imagine as to what would have happened had atleast another batsman (if not all) had taken the West Indies' charge. On the other hand, the South African batting was not dominated by a single batsman but there were 6 South African batsmen who crossed double figures. A combined effort by the South African batsmen put up a tough total on the board. Of course, the bowling department was dominated by Wayne Parnell who took 4 wickets giving away 13 runs from his allotted 4 overs.
However, Jaques Kallis, Johan Botha and Albie Morkel returned with a run rate of above 10 an over as compared to the 8.5 by the West Indies team at the end of their batting innings. Last time also, South Africa had won their first encounter against England, following it with a win against New Zealand. This time in the place of New Zealand there are West Indies. Later on, the Proteas, like the last time will have to play India who are also facing England & South Africa like last time. Here too New Zealand being replaced by the West Indies. If the things go as per guess, the semi finals should read India vs Sri Lanka and Pakistan vs West Indies. Let us see.
Out of the score of 163 put up on the board by the West Indies, 77 of them solely belonged to Lendi Simmons. Meaning that the remaining eight batsmen put up a mere 86 runs at just above 10 a piece. It was frustrating to see just three of the West Indian batsmen cross the double digit mark, with one of them (Suliemann Benn) being a tail ender. There were solid batsmen in Ramnaresh Sarwan, Chris Gayle, Fletcher, Dwayne Bravo and Shivnarine Chandrapaul who could have shown their powers with the willow. But, unfortunately that was not the case. Had one of these aforementioned batsmen stood to the Proteas' bowling, the result might have been different I guess.
With just one batsman firing, the West Indies came so close to the target of 185 imposed by South Africa, one can imagine as to what would have happened had atleast another batsman (if not all) had taken the West Indies' charge. On the other hand, the South African batting was not dominated by a single batsman but there were 6 South African batsmen who crossed double figures. A combined effort by the South African batsmen put up a tough total on the board. Of course, the bowling department was dominated by Wayne Parnell who took 4 wickets giving away 13 runs from his allotted 4 overs.
However, Jaques Kallis, Johan Botha and Albie Morkel returned with a run rate of above 10 an over as compared to the 8.5 by the West Indies team at the end of their batting innings. Last time also, South Africa had won their first encounter against England, following it with a win against New Zealand. This time in the place of New Zealand there are West Indies. Later on, the Proteas, like the last time will have to play India who are also facing England & South Africa like last time. Here too New Zealand being replaced by the West Indies. If the things go as per guess, the semi finals should read India vs Sri Lanka and Pakistan vs West Indies. Let us see.
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