Bangladesh team manager Rabeed Imam reminded all-rounder Mehedi Hasan Miraz to check the honours board at the Rawalpindi Cricket Stadium on Monday, as the latter was waiting to face the media in the Mixed Zone following their Champions Trophy game against New Zealand.
It was not only about the number of wickets Bracewell picked up. The poor shot selection of Bangladesh batters, coupled with great fielding display by New Zealand, cost the Tigers dearly in this crucial match.
On Monday morning, right in front of the main entrance of the Rawalpindi Cricket Stadium, a few local hawkers were selling flags of Bangladesh and New Zealand – the two participating teams in today’s crucial Group A match – and of course of hosts Pakistan.
It’s make or break for Bangladesh as they take on New Zealand in their second Group A match of the ongoing ICC Champions Trophy at the Rawalpindi Cricket Stadium today.
“Bangladesh’s got a good bowling attack, that’s what I like about them. But big concern is about the batters,” Pakistan’s head curator Tony Hemming said this yesterday when asked about Bangladesh’s chances in today’s match against New Zealand.
Despite being in such a comfortable environment, the pressing question remains: can Bangladesh rise to the occasion against New Zealand?
Bangladesh left-arm spinner Taijul Islam has been rewarded for his pivotal role in the Tigers’ maiden Test victory against New Zealand at home in December 2023 with a nomination for the ICC’s Player of the Month award for the month of December.
Bangladesh pacer Shoriful Islam's latest exploits with the ball in the three-match T20I series in New Zealand have seen him surge 32 places in the bowling rankings.
A new-look Bangladesh, under the leadership of Najmul Hossain Shanto, have managed to break barriers by clinching their first-ever ODI and T20I wins on New Zealand soil against the hosts.
When New Zealand spinner Mitchell Santner was asked in the press conference after the opening day of the second Test in Dhaka between Bangladesh and New Zealand f the match would progress beyond three days, he couldn't help but laugh.
New Zealand faced the music on a rank turner in Mirpur as they struggled on 55 for five at stumps, in reply to Bangladesh’s first innings total of 172 on Day 1 of the second Test at the Sher-e-Bangla National Cricket Stadium on Wednesday.
Bangladesh left-arm spinner Taijul Islam jumped four places to a career-best 14th in the ICC Test Bowlers’ Rankings after his 10-wicket haul and Player of the Match heroics against New Zealand in the first of the two-match series.
Bangladesh's Mushfiqur Rahim became only the second batsman in Test history to be dismissed for obstructing the field in the second match against New Zealand in Dhaka on Wednesday.
An unbroken 70-run seventh-wicket partnership saw the tourists home
Bangladesh wrote a new chapter in Sylhet with their first-ever home Test victory over New Zealand. However, a much broader achievement awaits the hosts as the second and final Test of the series commences in Dhaka on Wednesday.
Bangladesh’s build-up to the first Test against New Zealand -- their opening World Test Championship fixture of the third cycle – had been murky given the absence of key stars. But the team showed that it could live up to the pressure of facing a big side such as New Zealand.
For the last few years, the chatter surrounding the pitch after a home Test for Bangladesh would usually be about its overtly spin-friendly nature or it having nothing on offer for bowlers.
When Shakib Al Hasan got ruled out of Bangladesh's home Test series against New Zealand due to injury, the hosts suffered a double blow as they lost their leader and their best all-rounder at the same time.
When Kane Williamson, centurion in the first innings, came to bat in the second innings yesterday, the stump mic picked up Bangladesh fielders riling Taijul Islam up with ‘this is your wicket.’
