New Zealand in Bangladesh

[Rangeela]

Schedule

19-23 Oct 1st Test Dhaka
26-30 Oct 2nd Test Chittagong
2 Nov 1st ODI Chittagong
5 Nov 2nd ODI Dhaka (D/N)
7 Nov 3rd ODI Dhaka (D/N)

New Zealand Squad

*Stephen Fleming
Nathan Astle
Ian Butler
James Franklin
Hamish Marshall
Chris Martin
+Brendon McCullum
Kyle Mills
Jacob Oram
Michael Papps
Mark Richardson
Scott Styris
Daniel Vettori
Paul Wiseman

 

[h-mAin]

I hope Habibul Bashar is back for Bangladesh!

 

[Ajit]

Bangladesh's Test Status should be taken away, or they should only play Zimbabwe, Kenya, etc in tests. They are a waste of time.

Perhaps ICC should adopt a two tier test system.
1.All major 8 teams
2.Other 8 teams

The teams in tier 1 should not play the ones in tier two.
And at the end of the year teams ranked 7,8,9 and 10 should play each other. The two teams that play better should play in tier 1 next year and so on...

 

[h-mAin]

HAHA Lol..hehe I think we should let them play

 

[brad352]

This series = waste of time
Bangladesh have to become decent eventually, but it'll be a bloody long time

 

[h-mAin]

We need one bad team that can cheer us up

 

[h-mAin]

Why is New Zealand nr.3 in the ICC Rankings? They didn't go to the semis, I think New Zealand should be under Pakistan...!! WOW! India at 7 :o That ranking ain't true, Pakistan at 6...!!

 

[squiz]

New Zealand are a very good One Day team, remember they beat India in the TVS Cup in India last year, but have unfortunately have had to face the Australians

 

[jonah]

And they won the Nat West series in England this year too.

 

[h-mAin]

Hm...Ok! But weren't they lower before the ICC Champions Trophy??

 

[Rangeela]

Hm...Ok! But weren't they lower before the ICC Champions Trophy??

Actually they were 2nd than Sri Lanka winning the Asia Cup put them in 3rd place...
only thing changed since icc champions trophy was west indies moved up due to winning the tournament..other than that everything is remained in order as they were.

 

[Ajit]

New Zealand are a very good One Day team, remember they beat India in the TVS Cup in India last year, but have unfortunately have had to face the Australians

They lost as well at Hyderabad, India got 350+ and they, just over 200.
Also, unlike India they did not beat Australia in any match.

And forgotten 0-5 whitewash to Pak.

 

[h-mAin]

What do u mean whitewash to pak? Pak won 5-0 against New Zealand? WHEN!?
But man, I hope Pak & India attain the rankings! Because this is shame

 

[Ajit]

New Zealand in Pakistan 2003

November 29 1st ODI, Lahore (day/night)
Pakistan won by three wickets

December 1 2nd ODI, Lahore (day/night)
Pakistan won by 124 runs

3rd ODI, Faisalabad
Pakistan won by 51 runs

4th ODI, Rawalpindi (day/night)
Pakistan won by seven wickets

5th ODI, Rawalpindi (day/night)
Pakistan won by 49 runs

 

[squiz]

Well considering that it was played in Pakistan you can't look too much into that