Cricket Update: Bangladesh vs. New Zealand 4th ODI preview
The Bengali tigers, after bringing the on-tour Kiwis 2-down, are will be seeking a historic series win in front of home crowd when they will enter the Shere Bangla National Stadium, Mirpur tomorrow at 3:00 GMT. The Bangladesh cricket team - which has prevailed
in only 14 of its total 155 One Day Internationals against the current Test-playing sides – can bundle up the five match series against Black Caps with a victory in the fourth game on Thursday.
This is the second time in the history of Bangladesh cricket that the Bengali Tigers have won two consecutive matches against any Test-playing nation. Earlier they had defeated the second-string http://www.senore.com/Cricket/West-Indies-c760 tem led by Floyd Reifer in two successive games.
The excited home side seems to be the favourite team in Thursday’s contest. 24 years old http://www.senore.com/Cricket/Shahriar-Nafees-c2486, who has been included in the side as Tamim Iqbal’s replacement after the Bengali veteran had a wrist surgery, ensured himself capable of Tamim’s replacement
at the top of the order and did not let his side feel the veteran’s absence. All-rounder Shakib al http://www.senore.com/Cricket/Hasan-c61990, who is leading the ODI all-round player’s rankings table, has been remarkable with both bat and ball in the last two games. The spin department of the
home side muffled Daniel Vettori’s men on the slow Mirpur track.
Though it was Duckworth http://www.senore.com/Cricket/Lewis-c72807 calculation that favoured the hosts in the first victory but what is encouraging from their view point is that the second victory against Kiwis on Monday 11th of October was the result of team contribution. Reliance
of the batting line-up as well as the bowling department of hosts on Shakib al Hasan was far less than usual. Barring injury or illness, the home side should stick to the same XI for tomorrow’s game.
For New Zealand, the five match one-day series against Bangladesh was their continuation of next year’s World Cup build-up on the sub continent. Earlier they visited Sri Lanka in a tri-nation series featuring India as well besides the hosts Sri Lanka and
New Zealand and finished the tour on a disappointing note without making it to the final. After clinching a huge victory against http://www.senore.com/Cricket/India-c750 in their opener of the tri-series, they lost their two games while one was washed out by the rain.
They had a justification of underperforming in Sri Lanka as their three key players - Daniel Vettori, Brendon McCullum and Jesse Ryder – were not playing with the side. Vettori and McCullum were on their paternity leaves while Jesse Ryder was struggling
with his elbow injury.
They entered Bangladesh with a full-strength squad with all the three players, who had missed tour to http://www.senore.com/Cricket/Sri-Lanka-c758, back into the side. The New Zealand captain Daniel Vettori was pretty confident about a 5-0 series win but the Bengali tigers shattered his dreams
by winning first and the third ODI – the second One Day International was abandoned without a ball being bowled due to relentless heavy rains in Mirpur.
The tourists failed to bat out their allotted fifty overs in the third ODI, leaving Ross http://www.senore.com/Cricket/Grant-c60671 Elliott, at the crucial No.
5 position, is a point of concern. Provided that Elliot has not bowled in the one-days this year, his incapability to score is hurting even more.
Shannan http://www.senore.com/Cricket/Stewart-c91370 took a blow to the head in the previous match while trying to take a catch of Imrul Kayes in the opening over of hosts’ chase. Kane Williamson might come in for him.
Tomorrow’s game will provide Kiwis last chance of fight back against the Bengali tigers, while it would be http://www.senore.com/Cricket/Bangladesh-c747’s ever first chance to record a series win against a high-profile side and the tigers would try their best to utilize the opportunity.
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