Indian A team touring Bangladesh, perhaps for the first time ever. I don't know if there has ever been an A series between these two teams. At any rate, two 4-day matches will precede the Test series, with first class matches played at Cox's Bazar (Chattogram) and at Sylhet. The two Tests will be played at Chattogram and Dhaka.
Also a 3 match ODI series (non Super League) to be played concurrently with the A series, before the Tests.
India have named a full strength side for both Tests and ODIs, minus the injured Jaspirt Bumrah and Ravindra Jadeja.
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You’ve touched an area I’m interested in. And have recently been collating stats, since nothing else appears to be available.
Anyway, you’re right. India A has never previously toured Bangladesh. Bangla A did tour India in 2015/16 for one “test”, won by India by an innings & 3 ODIs (2-1 India).
Indian A team touring Bangladesh, perhaps for the first time ever. I don't know if there has ever been an A series between these two teams. At any rate, two 4-day matches will precede the Test series, with first class matches played at Cox's Bazar (Chattogram) and at Sylhet. The two Tests will be played at Chattogram and Dhaka.
These are different places aren't they? Chattogram is formerly Chittagong. Cox's Bazar is elsewhere AFAIK.
Indian A team touring Bangladesh, perhaps for the first time ever. I don't know if there has ever been an A series between these two teams. At any rate, two 4-day matches will precede the Test series, with first class matches played at Cox's Bazar (Chattogram) and at Sylhet. The two Tests will be played at Chattogram and Dhaka.
These are different places aren't they? Chattogram is formerly Chittagong. Cox's Bazar is elsewhere AFAIK.
Correct. CB is however located in Chattogram Division, about 100-150 km southeast of Chattogram, the city.
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Just for giggles, does anyone want to guess which countries 'A' team has played most matches?
And which two countries have contested the most 'A' team "tests"?
Spoiler: India is not involved in either answer.
Also, after India & NZ played the test championship final last year, The Cricketer magazine had an article on the importance of A tours & how these two countries have upped the ante of this type of development. ZC should read it.
Bangladesh 112-9 batting first. Quite a poor performance. The Indian spinners in particular don't look very threatening. Mosaddek Hossain with a very good 63, but a poor way to get out. Has he done enough to get into the Test squad? I think he has.
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Excellent fightback by Bangladesh A in the 2nd innings, ending day 3 at 172-1.
Shanto and Zakir need to go on and get to three figures, and Bangladesh will have to bat out the entire day if they want to salvage a draw. Looks like a pretty strong Indian bowling attack with two seamers having over 150 first class wickets each.
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Bangladesh A with a very solid draw...Zakir Hasan with a massive 173...Shanto with 77, and Mosaddek with 63 in the first innings.
For the ODIs, its going to be interesting as both sides seem to be missing a lot of players. Personally I would like to see Shakib bat down the order and have Shanto at #3.
Liton
Anamul
Shanto
Miushfiq
Shakib
Mahmudullah
Afif
Miraz
Mahmud
Mustafiz
Ebadat
to me that is the best XI at this point.
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What a match indeed. We always lose those games. In fact, this might be our first 1 wicket win since probably sneaking one past Zimbabwe 15+ years back. Just goes to show how if Bangladesh gets in those situations they never end up winning.
Loving Ebadat's hostility and aggression. Bowled a lot of bouncers and got 3 of his wickets off snorters. Almost every ball in his spell was 140 clicks or faster.
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Yeah ODIs are still great and IMO better than T20s. Idk what the majority of fans worldwide believe though.
Either way, international ODIs will remain with the ODI world cup + Champions Trophy bringing in a lot of money to the ICC (and hence the respective boards). And given their duration, would bring in more money than T20 world cups, per tournament. Who knows the ODI world cup might even bring in more money than 2 T20 world cups combined.
At the same time, bilateral ODIs will not be played at the same frequency as in the past. Bilaterally, teams will play the same amount of ODIs and T20Is (which is unfortunate IMO), and may even play 60% T20s, 40% ODIs. A lot of players will refuse to play all 3 formats, and decide to retire from Tests and ODIs to focus on T20Is and T20 leagues.
But ODI cricket will remain. Test cricket will probably just be played amongst the top 9 teams though.
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WOW. The 8th over of the BD innings was an excellent example of top quality cricket. Mohammad Siraj just bowled two amazing deliveries beating Shanto's outside edge. In between that, Shanto played two solid uppish straight drives for 4 with no mid off or mid on in place. 8 runs off the over, but also two deliveries that could have gotten world class batters out easily.
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