West Indies defeated co-host Bangladesh by 9 wickets in their Group B match at Cricket World Cup

West Indies Beats Bangladesh by 9 Wickets at Cricket World Cup

The West Indies defeated co-host Bangladesh by nine wickets in their Group B match in Dhaka after nine Bangladeshi batsmen failed to reach double figures.

Chris Gayle was 37 not out, combining with Devon Smith, out for 6 runs, and Darren Bravo, 9 not out to achieve the win with 226 balls remaining in the 50-overs match.

Bangladesh was all out for 58 after 18.5 overs. Only Junaid Siddique, out on 25, and Mohammad Ashraful, caught on 11, reached double figures for the co-hosts. Bangladesh’s score was the lowest total ever by a full-member nation in the history of the tournament. Top batsman Tamim Iqbal was dismissed for a duck on the third ball.

The West Indies is now in second place in Group B, behind South Africa, while Bangladesh is in sixth place.

In an earlier Group A match, New Zealand defeated Zimbabwe by 10 wickets as Brendon McCullum and Martin Guptill combined for 166 runs.

Guptill ended on 86 and McCullum reached 76 after 33.3 overs. Zimbabwe was all out for 162 in 46.2 overs at Sardar Patel Stadium in Motera.

New Zealand’s Tim Southee took 3-29 as seven of Zimbabwe’s batsmen failed to score more than 12 runs.

New Zealand moves to fourth place in Group A, with Zimbabwe in fifth. The top four from two groups of seven teams advance to the quarterfinals of the event, co-hosted by India, Sri Lanka and Bangladesh. The tournament ends April 2.

Bangladesh vs Ireland Cricket World Cup 2011 Live Scorecard

Bangladesh have not good start in world cup they lose first match against india. They will need to be at the top of their game, and higher, against a rampaging India. Bangladesh’s fortunes depend greatly on opener Tamim Iqbal’s mood and form. Pace bowlers Shafiul Islam and Rubel Hossain both are in good touch, if only that Hossain is slightly on the leakier side. On other hand Ireland team is no doubt good team, Ireland have some play good game then they are make history like in previous World cup.

Bangladesh will play second match of 2011 ICC cricket world cup against Ireland. Till date Bangladesh played 6 match against Ireland and won 4 of them. The ODI ranking for Bangladesh is 9 and that of Ireland is 10. In statistics both the teams are of same strength. This time we have home ground support and our lads are doing well recently with bowling and batting skills. Hurray Bangla!!!!!!!

Bangladesh vs Ireland World Cup 2011 Match Details:

Match Number: 9
Location: Sher-e-Bangla Cricket Stadium, Dhaka
Date: Friday 25 February 2011.
Time: Match scheduled to begin at 9:30 (IST)

Match will be Telecast in Bangladesh Television on time : 9:30 and for Ireland supporters can watch the match in Sky Sports HD, Zee Cafe corporation at 8 pm

Probable Players are:
Bangladesh: Tamim Iqbal, Imrul Kayes, Junaid
Sidiqui, Shahriar Nafees, Shakib ul Hasan, Mushfikur
Rahman, Mahmudulla, Naeem Islam, Mashrafe Mortaza,
Shafiul Islam, Suhrawadi Shuvo, Rubel Hossein, Jahurul
Islam, Mohd Ashraful

Ireland: William Porterfield (Captain), Andre Botha, Alex
Cusack, Niall O'Brien (WK), Kevin O'Brien, George Dockrell,
Trent Johnston, Nigel Jones, John Mooney, Boyd Rankin,
Paul Stirling, Albert van der Merwe, Gary Wilson (wk),
Andrew White, Ed Joyce

On opening World Cup warm up days Bangladesh and West Indies win

The first day of the World Cup warm-up games saw Sri Lanka, West Indies and Bangladesh cruise to easy wins in their respective games. Sri Lanka crushed Netherlands in a game at SSC in Colombo, West Indies ran home in a reasonably tough game against Kenya while Bangladesh pounded the Canada side to take home a lot of confidence before the start of the World Cup.

Sri Lanka batted first against Netherlands and scored a whopping 351 in their 50 overs. This was mainly possible due to an innings of substance from T Dilshan (78) and because of the valuable support that he got from the other half century-scorers in the team. Thilan Samaraweera, promoted to the number three position got a 60, while Chamara Silva and Chamara apugedera scored 54 and 50 respectively. Strangely enough, Kumar Sangakkara and Mahela Jayawardene did not bat in the game.

In reply, Netherlands did not have any chance of crossing over the line and looked deflated from the very beginning. They lost wickets at regular intervals and collapsed to 37/4 at one stage before being rescued by the captain of the day - Bas Zuiderent and Tom de Grooth. Zuiderent made 38 while Grooth scored 76 as the side was taken to a relative position of safety, ending with 195 all out. Dilhara Fernando ran through the tail and ended with a haul of four wickets.

In another game of the World Cup warm-ups, West Indies took on Kenya at the SSC in Colombo. West Indies batted first and after the early trouble that they were in at 65/4, were propelled to a decent total by Ramnaresh Sarwan. Sarwan made a century and ended on 123 off 125 balls while his partnership with Dwayne Bravo (54) ensured that the side had had a decent 253/8 in the 50 overs.

Kenya did have a good enough start to their innings and were 98/1 at one stage. Unfortunately for them, they had used up many overs to get there and in the quest to quell the mounting asking rate, the side was bowled out for 192. Andre Russell bagged four wickets.

In the third game of the day, Canada were bowled out for 112 batting first at Chittagong. Shakib al Hasan had three wickets to his name before Tamim Iqbal raced off to a fantastic 69 to push the side to a nine-wicket win over the Canadians.

Pakistan demolished Bangladesh by 89 runs in their first warm-up match on Tuesday.

Bangladesh and Pakistan will play a warm-up match at the Shere-e-Bangla National Stadium in Mirpur, Dhaka.

Venue: Shere-e-Bangla stadium, Dhaka

Shahid Afridi has played down fears that Pakistan have a depleted pace attack. But the fact remains that they will rue the absence of Mohammad Asif and Mohammad Amir. There is also the danger of the spot-fixing scandal affecting the team’s morale, something that Afridi was quick to dismiss.

Pakistan’s reliance on an aging Shoaib Akhtar, who will be assisted by Umar Gul, Wahab Riaz and Abdul Razzaq in the pace department, may not be enough. Also, Junaid Khan can, at best, be a surprise package as he is an unknown entity. But, Afridi is adamant Pakistan will fire.

Along with two specialist spinners in Saeed Ajmal and Abdur Rehman, Pakistan will also rely on Afridi and all-rounder Mohammad Hafeez to add variety to their spin attack.

Captain Shakib al Hasan, Tamim Iqbal and Abdur Razzak will all be vital cogs in Bangladesh’s scheme of things and would provide the much-needed experience to a young side with an average age of around 24.

Bangladesh brushed aside Canada in their first match while this will be Pakistan’s first practice match. Imran Khan recently called them the 'worst-prepared' side. The team can prove him wrong, come Tuesday.

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Bangladesh Cricket Team ICC Cricket world cup 2011 Announced

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Bangladesh Suqad For 2011 ICC Cricket World Cup

SWOT for Bangladesh in World Cup, 2011

Bangladesh will play India in the first game of the tournament, and will look to repeat their performances of the last World Cup. It will not be easy this time around.

Strengths:

Their opening batting has been their strengths, and if the likes of Tamim Iqbal and Imrul Kayes can continue batting like the way they have been, their batting could get a huge boost before getting to the World Cup.

Weakness:

The inability to forge partnerships right throughout the innings is a huge weakness. On many occasions, they have collapsed after having had a good start to their innings and that has led to many an issue with the batting.

Opportunities:

This is their best chance to make it through the second round, given that the tournament will be played in the sub-continent, where their spinners will have a good time.

Threats:

The lack of pace bowling strength and over-dependence on the likes of Iqbal and Shakib al hasan is a huge issue for them.

Players to watch out for:

It has to be the batting of Tamim Iqbal, who has, thus far, been his side’s lone warrior.
ICC World Cup 2011: Bangladesh Team Squad

Kapali in Bangladesh preliminary World Cup list

Bangladesh preliminary squad: Shakib Al Hasan, Masrafe Bin Mortaza, Tamim Iqbal, Mohammad Ashraful, Imrul Kayes, Zunaed Siddique, Roqibul Hassan, Mushfiqur Rahim, Mahmud ullah, Nazmul Hossain, Naeem Islam, Rubel Hossain, Shafiul Islam, Abdur Razzak, Md Sohrawardi, Shahriar Nafees, Nazim Uddin, Shamsur Rahman, Jahurul Islam, Sahagir Hossain, Syed Rasel, Shahadat Hossain, Mahbubul Alam, Dollar Mahmud, Md Mithun, Nasir Hossain, Shuvogoto Hom Chowdhury, Shabbir Rahman, Alok Kopali, Enamul Haque Jr.
15 players for the Bangladesh Cricket team Squad for ICC world cup 2011 will be announced on or before 19th January 2011. For more Information, Click here

ICC World Cup 2011 tickets go on sale amidst clashes

A large number of cricket fans clashed with the police in Bangladesh as they swarmed the banks to buy tickets for the ICC World Cup 2011.The crowd clashed with the police when the bank authorities said that each branch would only sell 500 tickets due to strict scrutiny of buyers’ identification papers.

The Bangladesh Cricket Board has made 15,000 tickets available per match for the cricket crazy fans all over the country. The tickets went on sale at 80 branches of the private City Bank and the state-owned Agrani Bank on Sunday.

Only a handful of cricket fans could get hold of the tickets for the event despite many on them lining up in queues since Saturday noon in the cold weather. There were chaotic situations all over the country as the police tried to beat up the crowd in order to disperse them.

The heartbroken fans clashed with the police at Mirpur, Bangabandhu Avenue, Uttara, Dhanmondi, and capital of the country, Dhaka.

The fans included many aggrieved students who retorted to raise slogans against the BCB and International Cricket Council. They vandalised at least eight to ten vehicles in front of the Mirpur branch of the City Bank after which the police intervened.

There were no threatening injuries but a few fans and a photographer had reportedly suffered minor injuries during the protests.

Shah Alam, a police inspector, while talking to a local TV channel said, “They raised slogans and held demonstrations.” However, the inspector maintained that the police calmly dispersed the protesters.

Bangladesh is the co-host of the event along with India and Sri Lanka. The opening match will be held between India and Bangladesh on 19 February at the Sher-e-Bangla National Stadium, Bangladesh.

The fans were angered when officials announced that 15,167 tickets would be sold to the public even though the stadium has a seating capacity of over 25,000. The remaining tickets will be reserved for foreign officials and stakeholders.

There are fifty outlets of the City Bank and thirty branches of the Agrani Bank that will be selling around 100,000 tickets for 6 games to be held in Bangladesh.

However, cricket fans were wary of the fact that they might not be able to support their home team in the World Cup due to the limited number of tickets.

The BCB is yet to comment on the availability and mismanagement of the ticket sales.