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Bangladesh National Cricket Team
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| Bangladesh Squad for World Cup 2011 |
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Shakib Al Hasan (c) |
Tamim Iqbal (vc) |
Imrul Kayes |
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Shahriar Nafees |
Junaid Siddique |
Mohammad Ashraful |
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Raqibul Hassan |
Mushfiqur Rahim (wk) |
Mahmudullah Riad |
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Abdur Razzak |
Naeem Islam |
Shafiul Islam |
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Suhrawardi Shuvo |
Rubel Hossain |
Nazmul Hossain |
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The Bangladeshi cricket team, also known as "The Tigers",
is a national cricket team representing Bangladesh. It is administered by the Bangladesh
Cricket Board (BCB).
Bangladesh is a full member of the International Cricket Council with Test and One
Day International status. It played its first Test match in 2000 (against India
at Dhaka), becoming the tenth Test cricket playing nation.
Bangladesh's first official foray into international cricket came
in the 1979 ICC Trophy in England, leaving the tournament with 2 wins and 2 defeats.
Seven years later, on 31 March 1986, Bangladesh played in its first One Day International
match against Pakistan in the 1986 Asia Cup. Cricket has gradually become very popular
in urban areas of the country. Although football was the most popular game for a
long time, cricket gained a momentum and soon surpassed football, especially after
Bangladesh won the ICC Trophy in Malaysia in 1997. By winning the
ICC trophy, the Tigers had qualified for the 1999 Cricket World Cup for the first
time, where they upset Pakistan, although they did not pass the group phase. In
1997, Bangladesh became a regular ICC member with the right to play one-day internationals.
It attained the status of a Test playing country on 26 June 2000.
As of July 2009, Bangladesh have played in 61 Tests, winning only 3. Their first
victory was against Zimbabwe and the other two against a West Indian team crippled
by the exodus of its senior players. They have lost 52 of their matches, and 33
of these by an innings. Bangladesh's performance has led to repeated calls for them
to lose their Test status.
In January Bangladesh hosted a tri-series ODI tournament with India & Sri lanka.
They failed to win a match and went out of the tournament. Without Mashrafee the
team's bowling was really poor though the batting was good. They managed to score
over 200 runs in every match.
Bangladeshi former captain Habibul Bashar and former coach
Dav Whatmore have said that they hope Bangladesh will become a serious
cricketing contender by 2010. Despite cricket's enormous popularity with the Bangladeshi
people this ambition has yet to be achieved, although the side has recently shown
sides of more consistently competitive performances in ODI cricket. Bangladesh's
U19 team, the stepping stone before the International Test scene, regularly performs
well against established Test nation's U19 teams. In the recent 2006 U-19 Cricket
World Cup, Bangladesh was one of the favorites to win beforehand, but fell in the
quarter finals to England U19. |
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