West Indies v Bangladesh: ICC World Cup 2011- preview
Bangladesh, co-host of ICC World Cup 2011, will go up against two time world champions West Indies on Friday, 4 http://www.senore.com/Cricket/March-c74391 at Shere Bangla National Stadium, Mirpur in match-19 of the tournament.
Both teams are placed in group B which is also known as the group of death. Initially it was thought that it will be a battle for fourth spot between Caribbean cricket team and Bengal Tigers, but since http://www.senore.com/Cricket/Ireland-c751 defeated England the group is wide open.
The Bangladeshi side is ranked higher than the http://www.senore.com/Cricket/West-Indies-c760 in ICC one-day rankings and will have home advantage as well in this game. As a result of this, the odds are favoring them to emerge victorious.
Darren Sammy, skipper Caribbean cricket team, is confident that his side will perform well and he said, “You can say http://www.senore.com/Cricket/Bangladesh-c747 are ranked higher than us, but we have to go out and play to the best of our ability. We won't be taking them lightly, but at
the end of the day, they are beatable, we have done it before. We have a gameplan and we will go out and execute it.”
http://www.senore.com/Cricket/Bengal-c771 Tigers will settle for nothing less than a victory because need a wins in order to qualify for the quarter-finals. Shakib-Al-Hasan, captain Bangladesh team, said “Obviously we want to go to the next round. It is not as if we have to win tomorrow because
we will have three more matches but a win will surely take us a step forward."
The pitch has been prepared to support spin bowling. As far as the weather conditions are concerned it will be warm, so dew will not play much part in this game.
Team form
Bengal Tigers are in good form after they defeated http://www.senore.com/Cricket/India-c750 on Saturday, 19 February.
The Caribbean side is struggling at the moment and needs to set things right as soon as they can. They lost a home series to http://www.senore.com/Cricket/South-Africa-c757. They have won just one game
from the last five played and the winning game was against minnows http://www.senore.com/Cricket/Netherlands-c753.
Key players
Dwayne Bravo, star all-rounder for the Caribbean side, suffered an injury and will miss the rest of the campaign. In his absence Kieron Pollard will have to step up as the main all-rounder. Chris Gayle is an explosive batsman and can relinquish any bowling
attack on a given day.
The spin friendly pitch will support the Bengal tigers, who have quality spinners in the likes of Abdur Razzak and Shakib Al http://www.senore.com/Cricket/Hasan-c61990 in their bowling line-up, so they’ll be looking to spin their way to victory in this match.
Bangladesh (probable XI)
1 http://www.senore.com/Cricket/Rubel-Hossain-c2378.
West Indies (probable XI)
1 Chris Gayle, 2 Devon Smith, 3 Darren Bravo, 4 Ramnaresh Sarwan, 5 http://www.senore.com/Cricket/Benn-c47745, 10 Nikita Miller, 11 Kemar Roach.
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