Monday 28 November 2011

Bangladesh threaten in-form Pakistan in opening challenge

Bangladesh are a threat in One Day Internationals and especially Twenty20s when they have won a nail bitter against West Indies and bowled West Indies for 61 in the last ODI against them. Pakistan however shown their strength recently with their strong performance against Sri Lanka in their T20 when they won comprehensively by 5 wickets. All these stats add up to a Fajita of a match. Game of the day so quit looking at the India v West Indies game!
Bangladesh look at danger and pounce on it, hence their name, the Tigers. Pakistan look to quash these after good form in previous tours especially the Sri Lankan tour recently show that they are a real powerhouse.


The rivalry between the 2 has been like puma and a tiger fighting each other. The defeat in the 1999 World Cup encounter gave Bangladesh ICC Test status and is still talked about that now. And 4 years later, Bangladesh were pipped to the post by an unconvincing 1 wicket win in their last Test match of the tour. This rivalry will be renewed and Bangladesh looked to be dangerous with the win against West Indies in their last Twenty20 International while Pakistan can hunt people down in their current form.


The ones to look out for is the big hitting, winning spinner Nasir Hussain. He has a lot of energy in the field, turns the ball as much as he can. Hitter of the ball and has a good sense of timing; this one should be the ones Pakistan should look out for.
Also, Mohammad Khalil is back after a 6 year gap and has good experience and bowling with his yorkers of what was seen in the only 2 ODIs her played.


Pakistan probable squad1 Mohammad Hafeez, 2 Imran Farhat, 3 Asad Shafiq / Younis Khan, 4 Misbah-ul-Haq (capt), 5 Umar Akmal (wk), 6 Shoaib Malik, 7 Shahid Afridi, 8 Sohail Tanvir, 9 Aizaz Cheema, 10 Umar Gul, 11 Saeed Ajmal


Bangladesh probable squad1 Tamim Iqbal, 2 Imrul Kayes, 3 Alok Kapali, 4 Shakib Al Hasan, 5 Mushfiqur Rahim (capt & wk), 6 Mahmudullah, 7 Nasir Hossain, 8 Naeem Islam, 9 Abdur Razzak, 10 Rubel Hossain, 11 Shafiul Islam


Predictions: We think that although Pakistan are in form with Twenty20s, or should be a tight game but think Pakistan will win by 3 or 4 wickets or 10-15 runs.









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