Story Bangladesh Manager Diary

[w3lshrugby]

World Rankings

Current World Rankings 06-07:


Example: POSITION; TEAM NAME (PLAYED; POINTS; DIFFERENCE)


Prior To Bangladesh V New Zealand:


TEST CHAMPIONSHIP:

1. AUSTRALIA (17; 31; 14)
2. INDIA (17; 24; 7)
3. PAKISTAN (18; 24; 6)
4. NEW ZEALAND (18; 20; 2)
5. SOUTH AFRICA (18; 19; 1)
6. SRI LANKA (17, 17, 0)
7. ENGLAND (18, 14, -4)
8. BANGLADESH (15; 9; -6)
9. WEST INDIES (18, 11, -7)
10. ZIMBABWE (18, 5, -13)

ODI CHAMPIONSHIP:

1. AUSTRALIA (18; 28; 10)
2. INDIA (17; 23; 6)
3. PAKISTAN (18; 22; 4)
4. SRI LANKA (17; 20; 3)
5. WEST INDIES (18; 21; 3)
6. SOUTH AFRICA (18, 20, 2)
7. NEW ZEALAND (17, 18, 1)
8. ENGLAND (18, 12, -6)
9. BANGLADESH (14; 8; -6)
10. ZIMBABWE (18, 3, -15)

Tour of New Zealand...coming soon...

 

[w3lshrugby]

Away In New Zealand: Test Series

Tour To New Zealand: 2 Tests & 3 ODIs.


Test Series:

Bangladesh Squad:

Iqbal, Bashar, Aftab Ahmed, Saleh, Nurruzzaman, Arif Ahmed, M Islam, Rafique, Hasan, A Islam, R Haque, Aziz, Hossain, Omar, Ashraful, Rahman, Khan, E Haque.

A squad full of new and old players to face the New Zealanders in an eagerly awaited contest!

Warm Up Match: v Wellington - Match Drawn.

1st Test at Wellington:

My Aims:

+Bowl New Zealand out twice.
+Win the test.

Welcome to Wellington, where the recently successful Bangladesh team will be looking to press home another win before the long awaited World Cup 07.

New Zealand won the toss and chose to bat first:

LINEUPS:

New Zealand: McMillan, Fleming*, Oram, Fulton, Richardson, Mills, Astle, McCullum+, Bond, Tuffey, O'Brien.

Bangladesh: Arif Ahmed+, Iqbal, Bashar*, Saleh, Aftab Ahmed, M Islam, Omar, Rafique, Hasan, A Islam, R Haque.

New Zealand First Innings: 329 all out
Fleming 184; Fulton 39; Rafique 4-80; M Islam 3-58.

Bangladesh First Innings: 261 all out
Arif Ahmed 83; Hasan 40*; Oram 5-70; Tuffey 4-64.

New Zealand lead by 68 runs.

New Zealand Second Innings: 270 all out
Oram 58; McCullum 44*; Hasan 5-66; M Islam 2-43.

Bangladesh require 339 to win.

Bangladesh Second Innings: 341-7
Aftab Ahmed 107*; Iqbal 56; Oram 3-84; Tuffey 3-121.

BANGLADESH (261 & 341-7) beat NEW ZEALAND (329 & 270) by 3 wickets.
Man Of The Match: Fleming

A great match with a great scoreline (for us). For the majority of the match, we were under the most pressure but through some great batting by the Ahmed's, we managed to pull off a great chase.

My Aims Revisited:

+Bowl New Zealand out twice.

We did this with ease and now we have shown that our bowlers are capable of bowling against any world team as we build towards the forthcoming World Cup.

+Win the test.

This was a secondary target as I thought that we couldn't really pull off a win on our first away trip of the season - but we did! And how happy was I when I got to tick off that aim!

In perspective, this is promising for the future - and the hope that we shall one day be world number 1 in both forms of the game continues. Also, the build-up to the forthcoming World Cup is now really tense, with many teams believing they have a chance - including us Tigers.

Join us for the second test in the series soon....

 

[Wildwil]

When's the next update mate. Looking forward to it.

 

[treva]

he's lost his book with his aims and stuff in but said he will be doing it again soon

 

[w3lshrugby]

i've managed to find my book now and will be updating ASAP!

 

[Left_Hander]

That's good. I was enjoying the story, before it had a bit of a pause.

 

[ashu2411]

Good start by Bangladesh. Win over NZ is big for Bangla. Keep the good form.