Father Losing, Son Winning - this was a placard held up by an enthusiastic Bangladeshi cricket fan at Queen's Park, Trinidad today. Bangladesh cricket is buzzing. If you have any doubts about this statement then go have a look at banglacricket.com. Their performance today makes a clear statement: they no more are minnows. For me, ICC and cricket was a winner because the tigers were simply brilliant today.
Disciplined bowling, electic fielding and stunning batting was on view. What more, the batsmen in question looked exuberant, classy and wily old foxes all put together in young 17 and 18 year olds. Tamim Iqbal's shimmy down the track to deposit Zaheer Khan in orbit created a superstar in cricket. He could be another Saeed Anwar in the making. Abdur Razzak beating Sachin in flight to get him caught behind was another sight of the day. Bangladesh didn't win today by luck. They outplayed the Indians.
A poor day at the office for the Indians. They looked the minnows!!
Agreed, the conditions were conducive to the bowlers. But I thought the batsmen weren't creative enough. Spinners were allowed to dictate, and they were too predictable when they attacked. Bangladesh exploited a lot of holes in India's lineup which are going to hurt as this Cup progresses. Well, that is if we are going to progress too far :)
All's not lost though because we have always been slow starters. But, today belonged to the Bangladeshis. Today was their day in the Sun. Take a bow folks. They just gave us a kick on the backside. The Tigers playing against the Lambs.
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