1st Test New Zealand in Bangladesh 2008 2nd Day

Shakib Al Hasan and Mohammad Ashraful are jubilant after the fall of another New Zealand wicket, Bangladesh v New Zealand, 1st Test, Chittagong, 2nd day, October 18, 2008

Left-arm spinner Shakib Al Hasan claimed six wickets to leave the BLACKCAPS staring at an embarrassing, and sizable, first innings deficit against Bangladesh after day two of the first test at Chittagong.

The 21-year-old had taken only three test wickets in six tests prior to this match but turned destroyer to help reduce the tourists to 155-9 after the hosts were dismissed for 245.

He finished the day with the startling figures for 6-31 from 24 overs and hauled in a stunning catch in the final over to cap a memorable day at the Divisional Stadium.

His performance overshadowed that of BLACKCAPS skipper Daniel Vettori who regsitered his 16th five-wicket haul in test cricket to wrap up the Tigers' first innings and then added a typically beligerent 49 not out to limit the damage to the tourists.

Shakib was quickly into his work, making the initial breakthrough in his second over to remove Jamie How while debutant Jesse Ryder fell in his third. Fellow spinner Abdur Razzak removed Ross Taylor before Shakib ended Aaron Redmond's watchful 90-ball stay on 19 to have the BLACKCAPS in early trouble at 52 for four.

The test minnows refused to let the BLACKCAPS off the hook and Shakib snared three more wickets in the final session to leave the visitors on the ropes.

It was not the response the BLACKCAPS wanted after they wrapped up the Tigers' innings by claiming the final six wickets for 62 when play got underway on day two.

Vettori grabbed three wickets before lunch to finish with 5-59 off 36 overs, but it was Iain O'Brien who struck first after the Tigers had resumed on 183 for 4 to remove Mehrab Hossain for 83.

The right-hander was deceived by a slower ball and could only prod a catch to Redmond at extra cover giving the Wellington paceman his third wicket of the innings.

Jeetan Patel enticed Naeem Islam to charge down the pitch only to be stumped by Brendon McCullum to end a 41-run stand for the sixth wicket with Mushfiqur Rahim and then Vettori got in out the act.

Rahim fell for 79 after top-edging a sweep to How in close to be the seventh wicket to fall with the score on 229 and the end came 16 runs later with Vettori taking a diving ctach off Patel to wrap up the innings.

The BLACKCAPS' reply began encouragingly enough with the openers negotiating almost 15 overs before How got a leading edge to a ball from Shakib that Rajin Saleh clutched at silly mid off. Ryder lasted only five balls on debut before a defensive prod gave the Shakib and Saleh combination more reason to celebrate.

Razzak claimed the scalp of Taylor, leg before wicket with a ball that appeared to clip the inside edge, and his left the BLACKCAPS at 46 for three in the 22nd over and their predicament worsened when Redmond fell an over before the tea interval.

McCullum and Daniel Flynn staged something of a fightback to add 47 for the fifth wicket before Flynn gave Islam a wicket in his first over in test cricket when he edged a cut to Rahim behind the stumps.

McCullum went in the next over, losing one hand on the bat and lofting the ball to Razzak at mid on. One-day hero Jacob Oram fell for a four-ball duck to give Shakib his first five-wicket bag in test cricket and leave the BLACKCAPS rocking at 100 for seven.

Vettori and Kyle Mills knuckled down and eked out precious runs in a 27-run stand that was ended when umpire Asoka de Silva adjudged that Mills had edged Shakib behind but the Aucklander was none too happy with the decision.

No. 10 Patel offered no runs, but valuable support to Vettori to see the pair add another 29 runs but he fell in the final over of the day, heaving a short ball from Mohammad Ashraful to Shakib at midwicket who pulled off a spectacular catch to heap more misery on the tourists.

Vettori battled through all the drama to cash in on anything short of overpitched to be unbeaten at the close one short of his 17th test fifty. But with only O'Brien to keep him company when play resumes on day three, the BLACKCAPS are facing a sizable first innings deficit.

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1st Test New Zealand in Bangladesh 2008

Mohammad Ashraful hands debutant Naeem Islam his Test cap, Bangladesh v New Zealand,1st Test, Chittagong, 1st day, October 17, 2008

The hosts crawled to 183-4 from 94 overs at the close of a painfully slow day in 35degC heat but were grateful at being let off the hook after the BLACKCAPS' catching let them down at the Divisional Stadium. Mehrab Hossain (79 not out) and Musfiqur Rahim (59 not out) mounted a spirited fightback after Bangladesh had at one stage looked in danger of being dismissed cheaply after captain Mohammad Ashraful opted to bat first on a placid pitch.
That decision almost backfired spectacularly after Iain O'Brien, preferred by the BLACKCAPS ahead of Tim SOuthee and Mark Gillespie, removed Zunaed Siddique lbw with his first ball and the seventh of the match.
But Brendon McCullum grassed a regulation chance the very next ball to give Rajin Saleh a life before Aaron Redmond dropped Tamim Iqbal at second slip off Kyle Mills in the third over - all before a run had been scored.
The blown chance made the Tigers' batsmen run-shy and they inched to lunch, with Iqbal enjoying another let-off when Redmond failed to hold a chance at short leg off Jeetan Patel, at 34 for one from 32 overs.
After the resumption the BLACKCAPS struck quickly with captain Daniel Vettori enticing a drive from Iqbal and McCullum held on to the thin edge. Iqbal, who is known as somewhat of a dasher, had squeezed out 19 runs in his 80-ball stay.
His inspid innings was surpassed by Saleh who was finally claimed by O'Brien in the 42nd over when he chopped the ball onto his stumps. His stay yielded 20 runs from 129 balls.
O'Brien at one stage had the remarkable figures of 2-4 from 11 overs as the hosts were more intent on self-preservation than run-scoring.
The next over saw Vettori deceive Ashraful in the air to trap him in front and see them slide to 44 for four. But any hopes the BLACKCAPS had of rattling through the order were stymied by Hossain and Rahim who combined in a unbroken 139-run stand for the fifth wicket - a new test record for Bangladesh.
Hossain brought some life to the listless innings and succeeded in upping the run-rate with some attractive strokeplay and he found Patel to his liking, hitting him for three boundaries in one over before tea. But both he and Rahim found, like the other Bangladesh batsmen, the miserly Jacob Oram difficult to get away with the allrounder conceding just nine runs from 15 well-directed overs.
They grew in stature in the final session as the BLACKCAPS bowlers began to tire in the heat. Hossain brought up his first test half-century from 84 balls while the more circumspect Rahim took 138 balls to record his second fifty in tests.
The pair comfortably dealt with the second new ball which Vettori took the moment it became available and the BLACKCAPS were left to rue a day that had got away from them.
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Interview with Habibul Bashar

Over aggression was a major problem for this game: Habibul Bashar
On his team’s performance in the opening game
We can’t say that we played very good cricket today. We started off very well but lost too many wickets in the middle overs. We didn’t achieve the target that we wanted to, but we played after a long time. Probably, this was our first game in three months and as time goes by we will definitely be better.
The flamboyant start but losing the way in middle
It has to a mixture of both. T20 does not mean you hit all the balls. It has to so be somewhere in between. You hit initially and at the same time also look for singles. You cannot hit every ball and that’s the mistake we committed today. Hopefully we won’t to do it again and come back with some good results.
On being overaggressive – a problem associated with Bangladesh players
Over aggression was a major problem for this game. But we will talk and discuss. We will try to make sure that it does not happen again in the next game.
On fast bowlers conceding too many runs
The bowlers need time to settle. They will come back harder and they all are playing after a long time
On areas that require attention
We would look to score more runs in the middle overs and not to lose too many wickets. Also, we will try to restrict the run flow with the new ball. It becomes very difficult if we give away so many runs in the first 5-6 overs. (Warriors conceded 74 runs in first five overs) But the spinners did a very good job.
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1st Test

Daniel Vettori, the New Zealand captain, has said he is ready for the challenge of leading the bowling attack on the spin-friendly Chittagong track when his side takes on Bangladesh in the first Test starting Friday. On New Zealand's 2004-05 tour of Bangladesh, Vettori picked up 20 wickets in two Tests, including 12 at Chittagong's MA Aziz Stadium. However, this tour's first Test will be played at the Divisional Stadium, which took over hosting duties from 2006. "That was a different ground, but we know spinners would bowl more overs in such conditions, so Jeetan [Patel] and I will be ready," Vettori said. New Zealand have had a chance to get familiar with the pitch at the Divisional Stadium when they clinched the one-day series 2-1 with a 79-run win in third match.
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BCB announce 13-man squad for the Test series

The Bangladesh Test squad for the Brac Bank Series against New Zealand:

• Mohammad Ashraful (Captain)
• Mashrafe Bin Mortaza (Vice Captain)
• Tamim Iqbal
• Zunaed Siddique
• Rajin Salah
• Shakib Al Hasan
• Mehrab Hossain Jr.
• Naeem Islam
• Mushfiqur Rahim (Wicketkeeper)
• Abdur Razzak
• Syed Rasel
• Shahadat Hossain
• Mahbubul Alam Robin

New Zealand secure series victory

Ashraful bowled by Oram

The BLACKCAPS, led by Ross Taylor’s third ODI century, crushed Bangladesh by 79 runs in the deciding international at the Divisional Stadium in Chittagong to claim the three-match series 2-1.

Taylor cracked an impressive 103 off 119 balls to lead the tourists to 249 for seven and the Tigers were in strife early and never recovered to fall well short of their target on 170 for eight.The BLACKCAPS won the toss and chose to bat and their top order woes seemed destined to continue after openers Jesse Ryder and Brendon McCullum were dismissed cheaply to leave them struggling at 13 for two in the seventhBut Jamie How and Taylor combined to put on 125 for the third wicket to haul them out of trouble and set them on the way for a decent total.How was the main aggressor in the partnership, stroking 73 from 82 balls and in the process chalked up his seventh ODI half century from 54 balls.He fell when he was beaten in the air by young off-spinner Naeem Islam on a wicket that was offering turn and bounce for the slow bowlers.From being well placed at 138 for three after 32 overs, the BLACKCAPS lost wickets regularly to curb their hopes of a daunting total.Scott Styris (12), Jacob Oram (3) and Daniel Flynn (5) failed to get going and at 201 for six in the 44th over the BLACKCAPS were well short of what they would have been looking for.Taylor reached his century in the 47th over from 117 balls which included five fours and four sixes but was dismissed two balls later trying to hit a full toss out of the ground.Daniel Vettori (19 not out) and Kyle Mills (18 not out) added 30 from the last three overs to nudge the score closer to what the tourists would have wanted.Bangladesh enjoyed a fortunate start when Taylor dropped Tamim Iqbal at first slip off the first ball of their innings, but the unlucky Mills soon enticed Zunaed Siddique into a false shot and the Tigers were in trouble.The introduction of Jeetan Patel and Oram put more pressure on the hosts and the pair combined to reduce Bangladesh to 59 for five.Patel, aided by a smart catch by McCullum, removed Iqbal for a quickfire 35 just two balls after Oram had dismissed debutant Imrul Kayes.Oram, who failed with the bat for the first time in the series, then removed the dangerous Mohammad Ashraful when the Tigers’ skipper tried to get inventive as the required run-rate mounted but only succeeded in yorking himself.Tim Southee and Mills ensured there would be no fightback and the hosts were condemned to defeat when they slid to 98 for seven in the 35th over.The Tigers’ Naeem Islam and Abdur Razzak delayed the inevitable with some spirited resistance to add 46 for the eighth wicket before Ryder caught the edge of Razzak’s bat for 27.Islam ended unbeaten on 46 after a laborious 106-ball innings but the winning margin did not reflect the yawning gap between to the two sides on the day.The series had been all square leading tin to the match after Bangladesh won the series opener in Mirpur by seven wickets on Thursday while the BLACKCAPS forced a decider after winning by 75 runs at the same venue on Saturday.The series win will give the BLACKCAPS a big confidence boost heading into the two-match test series, which starts in Mirpur on Friday.
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Don`t worry. We will win tomorrow.

Mohammad Ashraful and Mashrafe Mortaza, have a chat during a nets session ahead of the series-decider in Chittagong

New Zealand in Bangladesh 2008

3rd ODI

This will be the 100th ODI match to be staged in Bangladesh since the first one exactly two decades ago and the occasion calls for something special. No point reminding the Tigers about it who arrived in the city of hillocks and ships on Sunday. They are still smarting from the defeat in the second game and are quietly hoping that things will work out for them in the same was as it did in the first match where they simply swept aside the Black Caps.
It is difficult to say whether Chittagong has the honour of starting seconds or minutes ahead of Dhaka on 27 October 1988. On that day Pakistan took on Sri Lanka at the Bangabandhu National Stadium while hosts Bangladesh battled India at the MA Aziz stadium here. Those were the first ODIs played in this country. Twenty years on the Tigers find themselves in a position they are not quite accustomed to. A win tomorrow would give the home side a series win and the chances for a change are almost even.
Teams
Bangladesh (12): Zunaed Siddique, Tamim Iqbal, Mohammad Ashraful (Captain), Shakib Al Hasan, Naeem Islam, Mushfiqur Rahim (Wicketkeeper), Mahmud Ullah Riyad, Mashrafe Bin Mortaza (Vice Captain), Abdur Razzak, Syed Rasel, Shahadat Hossain, Imrul Kayes

New Zealand (From): Jesse Ryder, Brendon McCullum (Wicketkeeper/Vice Captain), Jamie How, Ross Taylor, Daniel Flynn, Scott Styris, Jacob Oram, Daniel Vettori (Captain), Kyle Mills, Tim Southee, Jeetan Patel, Mark Gillespie, Gareth Hopkins, Michael Mason, Grant Elliott.
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Bangladesh team arrives at Chittagong this morning.

Kiwis level series

New Zealand squared their one-day series with Bangladesh with a 75-run win in the second match in Mirpur.

In reply to the visitors' 212-9, where Jacob Oram top-scored with 75 not out, Bangladesh were all out for 137.New Zealand began poorly, going from 31-0 to 45-4, before Oram turned things around with his match-winning innings. Vettori was pleased with his team's performance and said: "I think we bowled and fielded very well. Bangladesh at the start put pressure on us.

"I think when you lose the first game and put a mediocre total on the board than there are some concerns. So we were a little bit nervous in the dressing roomand we started wondering about going down 2-0 on a series we should win."

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2nd ODI
The 2nd ODI starts at 9:00am at Sher-e-Bangla National Stadium with state-run television BTV beaming the match live from the venue.
Bangladesh have not won back-to-back matches against a top-ranked team and suffered humiliating defeats in the very next match, instead – a fact Mashrafee was quite aware of.
The Black Caps also examined the pitch for the second match.

"Just being smarter in the condition, bowling in better length and better line, adapting to the slow and sticky nature of the wicket and fielding better as well. So all three departments we looked at and I am sure tomorrow we will give a better performance," Jamie How told reporters when asked what they had discussed before starting the practice.
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Bangladesh win first ODI against New Zealand

Bangladesh secured a first ever one-day international victory over New Zealand with a seven-wicket win in Mirpur.
It marked the first time in 12 meetings that the BLACKCAPS had lost to the Tigers and swiftly ended their goal of vaulting to No 2 in the International Cricket Council one-day rankings.
Such a promotion was in the offing providing they won the three-match series 3-0, which they were widely expected to do. But Bangladesh put paid to that with a confident allround performance, limiting the tourists to 201 for nine after a fine display in the field.

"I am happy we played as a unit," Ashraful said. "I am elated that its the first win against New Zealand and first against a major country under my captaincy."

"The toss was very important," Ashraful told TigerCricket.com. "With the overnight rain and the cloud cover we needed the bowlers to have a go first. I want to compliment everyone - Mashrafe, [Syed] Rasel, Shahadat [Hossain], Shakib, Razzak, Naeem...they set up the win for us with some wonderful bowling.

"The fielding too was good," Ashraful added. "I have said this before, if we do well in all three departments then we stand a good chance of being competitive. Today was proof of that."

After being invited to bat first in damp and overcast conditions, they lost five wickets for 18 runs to slump to 65 for five inside 17 overs before Jacob Oram led the resistance movement with a battling 57 off 89 deliveries. The only top order batsman to get underway was Jesse Ryder, who made 34 off 35 balls before spooning a catch to mid wicket.

Oram tempered his natural inclination to hit out as he and skipper Daniel Vettori cautiously set about turning the tide. These two put on 70 for the seventh wicket as the tourists reached 149 after 40 overs before Vettori departed for 30.

Oram hung around for another six overs before holing out at long on to become left-armer spinner Abdur Razzak's third victim. Razzak finished with the fine figures of three for 33 off 10 overs, but he was outshone by spirited fast-medium bowler Mashrafe Mortaza, who enjoyed the helpful conditions early on.

Mortaza snared three for 18 in his opening burst of eight overs and returned to pick up another late in the piece. He ended with four for 44, figures which suffered in his last spell when he conceded 26 runs in his last two overs.

Teenager Tim Southee swatted an unbeaten 19 off 14 balls at the death to drag the tourists over the 200 mark. Kyle Mills, Mark Gillespie and Scott Styris all claimed a wicket each but the bowlers could do little to prevent the historic win for the hosts.

unaid Siddique (84) and Mohammad Ashraful (60) guided Bangladesh to a historic win which Mashrafe Mortaza (4-44) had earlier set in motion.

Bangladesh's batsmen, criticised for their failures against Australia, stood up to the task with Ashraful himself scoring a brisk unbeaten 60. The star of the day , though, was Junaid Siddique, whose patient 85 easily eclipsed the 62 he had managed in his eight previous ODI innings. "I needed this innings to get my confidence back," Siddique said. "My one-day record has been quite ordinary and it was about time I got some runs.

A 70-run partnership between Oram and Daniel Vettori (30) gave some respectability to the New Zealand score, and despite the low total the visitors would have still been confident of taking a 1-0 series lead.

But the Bangladesh batting line-up proved to be more resolute than they were late last year when they were skittled out for just 98 in Queenstown.

A confident 67-run second-wicket stand between Siddique and Mushfiqur Rahim (32) set the platform.And Siddique, who had managed 62 runs in his eight previous ODIs - at an average of just seven - formed a solid 109-run stand with Ashraful to inch the home side closer to victory.Siddique's majestic innings was ended by Mark Gillespie when the left-hander was caught by Oram, so it was left for Shakib Al Hasan (six not out) to push Gillespie for the winning single.

Black Caps captain Daniel Vettori said Bangladesh deserved the victory."We knew they are a good side with some quality individuals," he said."The conditions were favourable for bowling in the morning but there are no excuses."

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Batman and Robin

Mahbubul Alam Robin is talking with coach Siddons at Mirpur.

New Zealand fast bowler Martin out of Bangladesh tests

New Zealand fast bowler Chris Martin has been ruled out of the tour of Bangladesh so he can continue treatment on a lingering hamstring and lower back injury, New Zealand Cricket (NZC) said on Wednesday.
Martin sustained the injury while playing county cricket in England and had already been ruled out of the one-day series that preceeded the two-test series.
NZC selector Dion Nash said that while Martin was pain free he had lost condition and it was decided it was more beneficial that he continue his rehabilitation rather than join the tour.
"With such a big season ahead it would have been foolish to rush Chris back too early," Nash said in a statement. "He is better at home working on his fitness and strength."
Martin has been replaced by Mark Gillespie for the tests. Gillespie is already in Bangladesh with the one-day squad.
New Zealand play three one-day internationals from Oct. 9-14 before the two-test series starts on Oct. 17.

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ICC World Cricket League

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The World Cricket League was devised by the ICC to provide regular one-day international cricket to Associate and Affiliate countries as well as to provide a qualification route into the ICC World Cup Qualifier (formerly ICC Trophy) and form there to World Cup.

The competition is divided into five divisions with promotion and relegation between them. Each division takes places in one venue over a week in a round-robin league with play-off places resulting from there culminating in a final between the top two and ranking finals for the remaining teams.

The ICC says that competition is about more than just the top six Associate teams. "It is a five-division structure designed to afford teams of various standards the opportunity to play regular one-day cricket against similarly ranked opponents regardless of where in the world they are located. It will also ensure that the qualifying pathway for the World Cup is open to the majority of the 91 ICC Associate and Affiliate members."

The first event - the WCL Division 1 competition involving the top six Associates - took place in Nairobi in January/February 2007 and was won by hosts Kenya with Scotland the runners-up. The two sides qualified for the ICC World Twenty in South Africa later in the year. The WCL Division Three was staged in Darwin in May 2007 with Uganda and Argentina the finalists promoted to Division Two.

Rules and format

The WCL was initially divided into five global groups (see below) with the first staging of each division being used to establish grouping thereafter. From 2009 onwards each division will have two promotion and relegations with the exception of the top division.

All sides in Division 1 plus the top four in Division Two and the top two in Division Three 2009 will go through to the ICC World Cup Qualifier (formerly the ICC Trophy) which will be held in the UAE in April 2009. That will in turn produce rankings for each of the top divisions from 2009 onwards.

Division One Bermuda, Canada, Ireland, Kenya, Netherlands, Scotland. Initial tournament Nairobi January-February 2007.

Division Two Denmark, Namibia, Oman, UAE plus the winners of initial Division Three competition (Argentina, Uganda). Initial competition Windhok November 2007.

Division Three Argentina, Cayman Islands, Fiji, Hong Kong, Italy, PNG, Tanzania, Uganda. Initial tournament Darwin May-June 2007. A second tournament with the bottom two from Division Two, the top two from Division Four and the third and fourth sides from Darwin (PNG and Cayman Islands) will be held in January 2009.

Division Four First and second from Division Five plus fifth to eighth from Division Three (Fiji, Hong Kong, Italy, Tanzania). Initial tournament September 2008.

Division Five Afghanistan, Bahamas, Botswana, Germany, Jersey, Mozambique, Nepal, Norway, Singapore, USA, plus two qualifiers from East Asia Pacific region. Initial tournament in Jersey May 2008.

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Warm-up match abandoned

Cloudy sky at Fatullah Cricket Stadium

Visiting New Zealand's lone warm-up match against Bangladesh Cricket Board XI ahead of the three one-day international series against Bangladesh was abandoned duo to unfit outfield of Narayanganj Fatullah Cricket Stadium on Tuesday.
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Forget cricket, let`s play football

Brendon McCullum plays football during a practice session, Fatullah

Selectors selection

The selectors include three inexperienced players in the team and probably two of them in the first ODI will get the cap. And after this series selectors will drop them and give a excuse,"They are unable to fulfill our expectation". In the next series again they will bring some players from under19 team. This discarded players might join next year ICL. ICL should choose some of this selectors for their own league so that they can help them to find some young genius.

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So You Think I Can Dance

Daniel Vettori lightens up during practice, Dhaka

Three inexperienced comes for ODIs against NZ

Bangladesh Cricket Board on Monday named three uncapped players in a 14-member squad for the three one-day internationals against visiting New Zealand.

The three rookies are Imrul Kayes, Nayeem Islam and Mahbubul Alam Robin.

"We have considered the junior players this time as some slots of the national team were open after some cricketers left recently and we hope the newcomers will do well," chief selector Rafiqul Alam said at a press conference at Sher-e-Bangla National Stadium.

Among the 15 members for the away series against Australia in August, fast bowlers Nazmul Hossain and Dollar Mahmud have been axed. Nazimuddin, Nafees, who had pulled out of the Australia series due to exam), Alok Kapali, wicketkeeper Dhiman Ghosh and all-rounder Farhad Reza joined the ICL.

Squad: Mohammad Ashraful, Mashrafee Bin Mortaza, Tamim Iqbal, Zunaed Siddique, Shakib Al Hasan, Mehrab Hossain Jr, Mushfiqur Rahim, Mahmudullah Riyad, Abdur Razzak, Syed Rasel, Shahadat Hossain, Imrul Kayes, Naeem Islam and Mahbubul Alam Robin.

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Kapali blames Mashrafe and Ashraful for ICL Fiasco

“Mohammad Ashraful was very keen to join the Indian Cricket League (ICL) and seeing his interest, I thought if the national skipper could resign from international Cricket why couldn’t I. Even Mashrafe Mortaza asked me to join and as a result I and the others joined ICL but I was shocked when Ashraful and Mortaza did not join ICL,” Kapali said, adding, “What shocks me more is that he has been lying to people and telling them he had nothing to do with the ICL.”

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Black is the best colour.

Jacob Oram follows some instructions in Dhaka.

BCB XI v New Zealanders 2008

BCB XI squad: Junaid Siddique, Imrul Kayes, Shamsur Rahman, Rajin Saleh (capt), Nafees Iqbal, Tushar Imran, Mehrab Hossain jnr, Saghir Hossain (wk), Syed Rasel, Nazmul Hossain, Dolar Mahmud, Enamul Haque jnr.

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Coach, the hat looks good to you.

Ashraful is talking with coach Siddons at Mirpur.

Daniel Vettori Bowling Highlights

Daniel Vettori is in action against Bangladesh.

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Vettori is the youngest player to have represented New Zealand in Test cricket, having made his debut in 1996/1997 at the age of 18. Vettori is a slow left-arm orthodox spinner, but he is known for his flight and guile rather than prodigious turn or pinpoint accuracy.

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New Zealand Team

Test squad Jamie How, Aaron Redmond, Ross Taylor, Daniel Flynn, Jesse Ryder, Jacob Oram, Brendon McCullum (wk), Gareth Hopkins (wk), Grant Elliott, Daniel Vettori (capt), Kyle Mills, Tim Southee, Iain O'Brien, Jeetan Patel, Chris Martin.

ODI squad Jamie How, Brendon McCullum (wk), Scott Styris, Ross Taylor, Daniel Flynn, Jesse Ryder, Jacob Oram, Gareth Hopkins (wk), Grant Elliott, Daniel Vettori (capt), Kyle Mills, Tim Southee, Mark Gillespie, Jeetan Patel, Chris Martin.