Today was the match between Melbourne Stars Academy and Bangladesh A in the Top End series. Bangladesh A were batting first and if we look at their previous results so they were also losing multiple games before and for this game, I little bit knew that they are going to lose it too. Now Melbourne Stars Academy are on the fifth number and I hope that they will increase their rank more and will qualify for the Semi-Final.
So far the top four teams are
1 - Chicago Kingsmen
2 - Pakistan Shaheens
3 - Perth Scorchers Academy
4 - Northern Territory Strike
Yeh it was expected from Bangladesh B to lose that matches against Melbourne because they were not looking in true colors and lose most of thier previous matches terribly and that's why holding bottom of the table. While Melbourne Stars has some decent stats and it's more likely to qualify for semis alongside with the Pakistani shaheens and standing dominator Chicago Kingsmen, due to momentum they got and number of points they have. Hope so it will be interesting fight while it's clear that both of these national team Bangladesh and Nepal will have out of the tournament due to terrible performances.
But I had hope for Bangladesh A squad that they would win this today match because before starting match, in previous match, Bangladesh squad surprised everyone when they defeated Northern Territory Strike squad which is one of strong squads. But in today match, this kind of performance was not expected from Bangladesh players but gave hard time Melbourne squad. This match was very important for Bangladesh squad and no doubt opponent squad was also quite hard and challenging. Bangladesh A squad was started match with batting and batters were collected 156 scores as a defend. In bowling side, Bangladesh looked strong and top order batters of Melbourne squad displayed bad performance but Jonathan Merlo batter played really superb inning and he collected 61 scores for squad and supported in good way. Bangladesh A squad were participated in 5 matches and they just won 2 and position is 8th out of 11.