ICC World Cup 2019
Part 8 - Will Nagin's make their first semifinal???
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Cricket not at all only about sports apart from team spirit its just a thing of entertaining the audience. Some times celebration of players cheers the audience. Like Sachin's thanking god by seeing sky after a ton, Tahir's sprint run after taking a wicket, Bravo's dancing after a catch so and so. Of course West Indians were the best entertainers, but Bangladesh also doing some kind of team celebration thats so called as "Nagin's Dance". Making their hands above head and indicating like Cobra they will do snake dance. This celebration was so popular among cricket fans. Sometimes they may celebrate before a win. Apart from that we were expecting the same kinda celebration from Bangladesh in the upcoming ICC World Cup 2019 at England and Whales. Lets see how bangladesh will build the playing XI so that they can do Nagin's celebration.
Top Order:
Tamim Iqbal, the name will be sufficient among cricket fans to know who is this guy. One of the best opening batsman produced by Bangladesh. The Left hander scored 11 centuries and 44 half centuries in ODI's for his team. Who else is better than this guy to play at No1??? With his finest batting skill Tamim confirms the 1st opener position for Bangladesh. Usually many teams want a right and left combo for open an innings and so Bangladesh took Litton Das in squad. The 24 years young right hand batsman can also act as a wicket keeper. May be he is not having such a big record like Tamim in ODI's. As of now he played 27 ODI and scored 1 century and 1 half century. He is having strike of 79 in ODI's which is enough to keep wickets.
Another left hander at No3 for Bangladesh and the name is Soumya Sarkar. Sarkar played 41 one day matches and scored 2 centuries, 7 half centuries with a strike rate of 98. He is also a right arm medium fast bowler. When Bangladesh need to broke a partnership definitely they will use soumya as a trumph card. Fourth spot is important for all teams and thats why Bangladesh had an experienced hitter and their regular wicket keeper Mushfiqur Rahim at that spot. This snake will dance better than other nagin's. Having experience of more than 200 ODI's Rahim scored 6 centuries and 32 fifties. When coming to wicket keeping he took 164 catches and 42 stumpings. His experience behind wickets will help Bangladesh team alot.
All-Rounders Best:
Bangladesh may had many players in the past 40 years. But only few of them were at the list of world class players. Shakib Al Hasan is definitely the best player from Bangladesh. The left arm spin all rounder is not only the best player of Bangladesh he is also the best all rounder in the world. He is having an ODI average of 35plus which is best among Bangladesh players. He scored 5577 runs at middle order from 195 matches with 7 centuries and 40 half centuries. No doubt this guy should play at No 5 for Bangladesh to win many matches. Another experienced Mahmadullah is there to support Shakib at middle order. If the previous one is left hand all rounder and here mahmadullah is a right hand all rounder. He took wickets for his team at many crucial times. He should be at no 6 for bangladesh in all the matches.
Sabbir Rahman another young talented player also an all rounder Right hand batsman with leg break combo. He is a good hitter too in ODI's with a strike rate of 91. Mortaza have to use this guy when team batting at death overs. He will add in squad at no7 to strengthn their middle order.
One more all rounder is there at no 8, he is the young sensational player of bangladesh Mehidy Hasan. This 21 years old young all rounder will be the future of Bangladesh he has to learn many things from Shakib. His batting is not that much good but he has good record in bowling. His economy is about 4.40 which helps bangla to control opponent runrate at middle overs.
Speeds:
Tail Enders, the skipper Mashrafe Mortaza will lead the bowling department along with their pacers Mustafizur Rahman aka Fizz and Rubel Hossain. Mortaza is a tail end hitter like australian bowlers. He took 259 wickets in ODI's from 205 matches. FIZZ with in short time he reached top of list. He took 77 wickets in one day from just 42 innings. He took 2 times 6 wickets haul that too against India. Bangladesh wont play without this guy. Another mid experience bowler Rubel Hossain took 122 wickets from 96 matches. These three combo makes the bangladesh bowling lineup very strong. Definitely Bangladesh is one of the team which having dangerous bowling lineup in this tournament.
Bangladesh Schedule for World Cup 2019:
Best XI to play:
1. Tamim Iqbal
2. Litton Das
3. Soumya Sarkar
4. Mushfiqur Rahim (wk)
5. Shakib Al Hasan
6. Mahmadullah
7. Sabbir Rahman
8. Mehidy Hasan
9. Masrafe Morataza (C)
10. Mustafizur Rahman
11. Rubel Hossain
Overall Bangladesh squad is good enough to play in this world cup. Their only negative they dont have a complete spinner in this squad. They have many spin all rounders in the squad, Of course Shakib itself a big spinner. Still they require one more in such a big tournaments like world cup. Anyway that wont make any difference in world cup at England. Their trio bowling option will give torture to many batsman in this tournament. But the only challenge among Mortaza is how he is going to handle his team in big tournaments. Definitely they need experience in handling match at any situation. Obviously Bangladesh were below par its totally the resposibility of Mortaza, Shakib and Mushfiqur Rahman. Hope Bangladesh will make their first ever world cup semi at England. If not they were the one will be the deciding factor for other teams in making top four.
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