Friday, 25 March 2016

Bangladesh desperate to take Pride in Dead Rubber

               Group 2 as done with the anticipation for semi final spots, as the winner between India vs Australia will join them with Kiwis from the group. While a dead rubber may not cause any threats to the semi's spots with Bangladesh taking on Kiwis on Saturday at Kolkata.
              New Zealanders surprised everyone with their performance from the spinners so far and with wining 3 matches they played till now will give them lot of confidence. But on the other side there may be a rough patch waiting a head of semi's, although Kiwis much focused on the postives they had through the wins.
              Bangladesh would be disappointed with not wining an single contest so far, after their immpersive performances in Asia cup and in WT20 qualifiers. They gone all over the place against  Pakistan, but pulled well with the ball at the end against Aussie. The final ball defeat against India will hunt them a lot compared with other losses, where they are in Control of the match over 39.3 overs.
             So Bangladesh have the last chance to register a win in the super10 against Kiwis, who are flowing with form. They may have came in as Associate's, but this time around they can't go with empty hands considering their recent form in shorter format.
              While kiwis haven't got an chance to experiment with the squad and at the perfect time they have got do it, but they should also vary of Bangladesh's threat any time with a huge loss may alter the net runrate and the position in the points table.
               The pitch at Kolkata served well for the batsmen, but surprised everyone with a rank Turner in Ind vs Pak game. For this encounter it may turn with also enough assistance for batsman and Bangladesh are hopeful with making use of the conditions where they played against Pakistan earlier.
              On the cards it might look as a dead rubber, but it got much spicy in it's own way. Where a team hunting for a win and the other lokking to test their bench strength a head of Knockouts. It's the batting with Bangladesh that costed them more than with the ball, once again they will be tested against in form kiwi bowlers.

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