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Arafat Sunny is getting tested today or tomorrow. He may very well fail. Taskin gets tested after the final vs Oman, will be very surprised if he is not cleared, and should hopefully be cleared before our game vs Pakistan.

Reporting Taskin is nonsense. Haven't watched enough of Sunny so no comments. And how come every case has a different cutoff date and seemingly different rules and regulations in terms of getting tested etc.?

CrimsonAvenger wrote:Reporting Taskin is nonsense. Haven't watched enough of Sunny so no comments. And how come every case has a different cutoff date and seemingly different rules and regulations in terms of getting tested etc.?

Sunny is most likely a chucker. At any rate he wouldnt be a loss because another spinner will just take his place.

The reporting deadlines are 7 days during a tournament for obvious reasons. Otherwise I think its 14 or 21 days.

I'll cry like a b***h if my boy Taskin is banned

sloandog wrote:I'll cry like a b***h if my boy Taskin is banned

His test was yesterday...no idea when the results will be out. 98% sure he will pass. But you never know.

Ugly game vs Pakistan...really did not expect them to beat us! I guess it happens.

Kriterion_BD wrote:Ugly game vs Pakistan...really did not expect them to beat us! I guess it happens.

Afridi actually had a good knock

sloandog wrote:I'll cry like a b***h if my boy Taskin is banned

Kleenex?

Many BD fans, myself included, are crying conspiracy. Here is what we know so far:

1) Taskin's stock (good length) delivery and his yorkers were both found legal.

2) He was asked to bowl 9 bouncers. 6 of those were legal, 3 were not.

3) but in the match in which he was reported, he did not bowl any bouncers, meaning he only bowled legal deliveries. So reporting him is more probative than diagnostic.

My gut feeling is most seamers probably chuck their bouncers, yet Taskin is being singled out.

The BCB has filed an appeal but I would shocked if anything came of it. IMO, Taskin should perhaps get retested outside of India and see if his bouncers are clean. I personally cannot believe an action as pure as his is suspect.

Sensational collapse yesterday...to lose with jut 2 runs needed off 3 balls with two set batsmen at the crease. Wasn't even good bowling...two full tosses hit high in the air when all they needed was a couple singles.

Surprisingly the crushing feeling dissipated about 15 mins later for me. But most BD fans still can't believe what happened the next day. I won't be too harsh on Mushfiq and Mahmudullah as theynhave won us innnumerble games in the past and will do so in the future. But beating India in India would have been sweet.

Overseas the batting and bowling have a long way to go still, but at home that spin attack should make everyone wary, especially the non-subcontinental teams. Aus should even be worried if they ever get around to going. NZ should be worried. WI should lose.

I think our batting is maturing, at least the top order. But I think we also had some jitters dating back to the World T20 where we failed to chase 3 runs off the final over with 2 set batsmen at the crease vs India.

Those issues are often like a switch...they go off and on like a light switch because they are transient psychological issues. With this Test win, the biggest win of any in Bangladeshi history to date, I think the switch will have turned off.

If we get a greentop with seam or swing, our batsman will struggle. But we now have the pace attack to hit back with, we didn't have that before. So a New Zealand could post 400 on a greentop and then roll us out for 150 twice and win by an innings. We will push more now with Mustafiz and Taskin taking the red ball.

We won't be winning often, but I don't see why we can't win 1 in every 20 Tests we play in Australia, New Zealand, South Africa, or England. I think we are now getting to the point of slowly becoming capable of doing anything Sri Lanka or Pakistan can do.

So far almost all my predictions from the OP have come true and even most BD fans wouldn't have made such optimistic predictions. Of course as an American born kid, I don't just watch cricket, I analyze it and try to figure out which players have talent and which don't. Every now and then I'm wrong, but I feel like when you grow up watching the NBA and NFL as a kid, you get an eye for picking out talent.

Great win by Bangladesh. At home they are as good as any Test team now, I think.

It's great that it was England that they put away too.

A result that will be up there with "We flippin' MURDERED them!" on the England List o' Shame, I reckon. :D

EDIT: Cricinfo win Quote of the Day:

England didn't just lose to Bangladesh. They lost 10 wickets in a session to lose to Bangladesh in a museum-quality display of poor batting that should be hidden from the sick, the elderly, the pregnant or those with heart conditions. It was a Halloween horror so gruesome that Quentin Tarantino would censor it for being gratuitously grim.

Thanks guys!

Maehara...that is a very hilarious quote you've found. There was a surprising number of Barmy Army present at the game...I'd estimate at around 200. With the security issues the official Barmy Army cancelled traveling to BD so I guess the folks who showed up work in Bangladesh. But it was good to see that huge number of westerners still feel safe to go and watch a cricket match in Bangladesh. But they are probably traumatised due to what they just saw!

And BRMT, yes, beating a high profile side like England is awesome and while I fantasized about it, didn't think it would actually happen. We probably could have had Australia last year if they hadn't pulled out. But the good news is the Aussies seem to be impressed with the security arrangements afforded to England (only Morgan and Hales declined to tour) and they will be touring next August tenatively. Unfortunately the rainy season doesn't end until September so that series will most likely be a 0-0 draw, robbing us of a chance to whitewash the Aussies!

Thanks Hunter. Yes, that it came against a major side like England makes it worth even more than if it was some middling side like Sri Lanka or New Zealand, that people would just say "oh they're rebuilding". England, India, Australia will always be imposing sides given the large player base, financial reserves, and volume of cricket they play.

Interesting new revelations about the win vs England...

Its now known that Coach Hathrui was not pleased with the performance at tea on Day 3 when England were 100-0, chasing 273 to win. After the tea break, Tamim took over setting the field and making all the bowling changes. As a result England lost all 10 wickets for just 64 runs inside a single session.

In other news, Mustafizur Rahman, has been selected in the 22 member prelim squad for the NZ tour that starts with the Boxing Day ODI. His return will instantly double our bowling attack's venom.