Bangladesh Cricket Team has something to prove this World Cup

Bangladesh cricket team has developed a lot, the team performance has improved but they are yet to prove something to the fans and the world. This nation has yet to win any major ICC event or event made it to final or semi finals. It was only in the 2007 world cup that they defeated India in group stage to reach super eights and then defeat South Africa.

However after that the team is still to show the cricketing skills the team is capable off.  Lets take a look at the Bangladesh cricket team for the world cup. It seems they have a quiet good number of ODI specialists in the team. Selectors seems to have done a nice job by picking a balanced team for the 2015 world cup that stars in less than 10 days from today.

Here is the list of the Bangladesh squad for the world cup:

1. Mashrafe Mortaza
2. Al-Amin Hossain
3. Anamul Haque
4. Arafat Sunny
5. Mahmudullah
6. Mominul Haque
7. Mushfiqur Rahim
8. Nasir Hossain
9. Rubel Hossain
10. Sabbir Rahman
11. Shakib Al Hasan
12. Soumya Sarkar
13. Taijul Islam
14. Tamim Iqbal
15. Taskin Ahmed 

Bangladesh cricket team is one of the team that consists of young players in the squad. Only one player (Mashrafe Mortaza ) is above 30 year and his age is also 31 years. So its quiet a young team.

Most of the teams performance and success in world cup will depend upon the performance of players like Shakib Al Hasan who is one of the most experienced player who also possess experience playing in various T20 franchise and that experience might help him at the world cup stage. Batting will depend mainly on the openers and top order which inlcudes Tamim Iqbal and Mushfiqur Rehman. However the dilemma is that no Bangladesh batsmen have scored a century at world cup so far.

Our best wishes to the Bangladesh cricket team !

Aisa Cup June 2008 - Pakistan team announced - Kamran akmal out of the team

Pakistani selectors announced the Pakistan's cricket team for Asia cup toournamnet starting next week and surprisingly they have dropped experienced wicketkeeper Kamran Akmal for the Asia Cup tournament.

Akmal was omitted from a list of 20 players picked to attend a short training camp, from which a 15-member squad will be named for the June 24-July 6 Asia cup tournament in Pakistan.

India, Sri Lanka, Bangladesh, the United Arab Emirates and Hong Kong are the other countries taking part.

"Kamran remains our number one keeper but we also wanted to give chances to others and we felt Kamran also deserved to take a well deserved rest," chief selector Salahuddin Ahmed told reporters.

Akmal who has played in 38 tests and 88 one-dayers, has been told to get over a extended period of inconsistent form behind the stumps.

The final squad is due to be named on June 22.

The selectors had no other surprises for the tournament although pacer Mohammad Asif will not take part as he remains in detention in Dubai on suspicion of carrying illegal drugs.

Pakistan squad:

Shoaib Malik (Capt), Salman Butt, Nasir Jamshed, Younis Khan, Mohammad Yousuf, Misbah-ul-Haq, Sarfraz Ahmed, Shahid Afridi, Fawad Alam, Sohail Tanvir, Umar Gul, Rao Iftikhar, Wahab Riaz, Sohail Khan, Asad Rauf, Yasir Hameed, Bazid Khan, Mansoor Amjad, Naumanullah, Saeed Ajmal.

Bangladesh Tri Series : India - Pakistan - Bangladesh

Trie series is scheduled in June 2008 and teams are annouced from all the three asian countries for India Sachin Tendulkar is goin to miss the series on the grounds of fitness hes yet to recover from groin injury. Both pathan brother Irfan Pathan and Yusuf Pathan got selected in 15 members squad. Left arm spinned Pragayn Ojha make his debut. Below is the Indian squad for the series:

Mahendra Singh Dhoni (capt & wk), Yuvraj Singh, Robin Uthappa, Gautam Gambhir, Virender Sehwag, Rohit Sharma, Suresh Raina, Yusuf Pathan, Irfan Pathan, Sreesanth, Ishant Sharma, Praveen Kumar, RP Singh, Piyush Chawla, Pragyan Ojha.

Arch rival Pakistan had chosen 16 members squad. As I haven't atched much cricket in last few months due to busy schedules so now riting much about changes in Pak team. Heres the Pakistani squad:

Shoaib Malik (capt), Salman Butt, Nasir Jamshed, Younis Khan, Mohammad Yousuf, Misbah-ul-Haq, Shahid Afridi, Kamran Akmal (wk), Mohammad Asif, Umar Gul, Sohail Tanvir, Rao Iftikhar, Wahab Riaz, Fawad Alam, Bazid Khan, Naumanullah

Below is the match schedule for the series:

Sun 8 Floodlit Match
15:00 local, 09:00 GMT 1st Match - Bangladesh v Pakistan
Shere Bangla National Stadium, Mirpur

Reserve Day 9th

Tue 10 Floodlit Match
15:00 local, 09:00 GMT 2nd Match - India v Pakistan
Shere Bangla National Stadium, Mirpur

Reserve Day 11th

Thu 12 Floodlit Match
15:00 local, 09:00 GMT 3rd Match - Bangladesh v India
Shere Bangla National Stadium, Mirpur

Reserve Day 13th

Sat 14 Floodlit Match
15:00 local, 09:00 GMT Final - TBC v TBC
Shere Bangla National Stadium, Mirpur