If Tamim Iqbal and Mahmudullah Riyad were not present in today's match, I don't know how shamefully Bangladesh would have been defeated. I have nothing to say about this match of Bangladesh against New Zealand.
Bangladesh cricket team performances keep going down the drain over time. They were unlucky in the last match actually thanks to rain interference since it looked like they would win that match.
Am not expecting them to go far in the World Cup thanks to their horrendous form these days.
Bangladesh's top order batsmen failed miserably with only Tamim Iqbal scoring 44 and Mahmudullah Riyad scoring 49. However, New Zealand could not bat properly due to rain and were bowled out for 254 runs before playing a full over in their innings. There was a golden opportunity for Bangladesh but due to poor performance Bangladesh were bowled out for just 168 runs. New Zealand's reference spinner Ish Sodhi picked up 6 wickets and destroyed Bangladesh's batting line-up to be bowled out for just 168 runs.
This was just a sorry looking card for Bangladesh. And I am actually not going to call this a big target. Because this was definitely achievable. The problem is Bangladesh batsmen got out playing some dumb strokes.
Liton Das got out in a way that is really dumb. As the captain of Bangladesh cricket team, he should have known better.
At the same time I can name a few that actually got out in a pretty bad way.
Just look at the wicket of Mahmudullah, the ball was really bad. That should have been at least a boundary.
Also, look at the ball in which Tanzid got out, he played a bad shot.
And I am not even going to talk about Soumya. I don't know how he is even getting chances. he can only play well against weaker opponents, just like Sabbir Rahman.
And at the same time, Tami Iqbal also got out in a very bad way. It's absolutely the fault of Bangladesh that they lost this match.