Tigers go another step ahead to beating all Test playing nations
Friday, 10 October 2008
With an emphatic seven-wicket win over New Zealand in the first match of the three-match BRAC Bank One Day International (ODI) series Thursday at the Mirpur Sher-e-Bangla National Stadium (SBNS), Bangladesh goes another step ahead to its quest for beating all test playing nations, reports UNB.
Till date, the Tigers have beaten all test playing nations except England and two time World Champions West Indies in the ODIs.
Out of their 188 ODI encounters, Bangladesh registered 41 wins including two against India, and one each against Australia, Pakistan, South Africa and Sri Lanka. Bangladesh beat Zimbabwe for the most 15 times.
The glorious journey for the latest Test playing nation began in the 1999 World Cup in England where they beat Pakistan by 62 runs at Northampton.
Bangladesh frustrated India twice - first in 2004 in Dhaka where they handed a 15-run defeat to the 1983 World Cup champions. Then in the 2007 World Cup in West Indies, Bangladesh buried the dreams of the strong Indian side with a five-wicket win in the first round.
In the same World Cup, the young Bangladesh side led by Habibul Bashar humiliated the South African side by 67 runs for the first time at Guyana.
Back in 2005 at Cardiff, current captain Ashraful's maiden ODI ton guided Bangladesh to a historic five-wicket win over mighty Australia.
In the next year at Bogra, Bangladesh also earned the rare honour to beat 1996 World Cup champions Sri Lanka by four wickets.
Till date, the Tigers have beaten all test playing nations except England and two time World Champions West Indies in the ODIs.
Out of their 188 ODI encounters, Bangladesh registered 41 wins including two against India, and one each against Australia, Pakistan, South Africa and Sri Lanka. Bangladesh beat Zimbabwe for the most 15 times.
The glorious journey for the latest Test playing nation began in the 1999 World Cup in England where they beat Pakistan by 62 runs at Northampton.
Bangladesh frustrated India twice - first in 2004 in Dhaka where they handed a 15-run defeat to the 1983 World Cup champions. Then in the 2007 World Cup in West Indies, Bangladesh buried the dreams of the strong Indian side with a five-wicket win in the first round.
In the same World Cup, the young Bangladesh side led by Habibul Bashar humiliated the South African side by 67 runs for the first time at Guyana.
Back in 2005 at Cardiff, current captain Ashraful's maiden ODI ton guided Bangladesh to a historic five-wicket win over mighty Australia.
In the next year at Bogra, Bangladesh also earned the rare honour to beat 1996 World Cup champions Sri Lanka by four wickets.