The lowly cricket team from Bangladesh defeated the West Indies.
Bangladesh is currently the lowest ranked Test team in the World. In their 59 previous test matches that had only ever won one game, and that was against a disastrous Zimbabwe.To put the Ranking system into more perspective: Before this match, South Africa had 5360 Test points, Bangladesh had Zero.
When the West Indies came out to bat, they knew they had a chance to win the game, at worst: a draw. There was not much thought of Bangladesh staging one of the biggest upsets in Test Cricket. But that was exactly what happened!
The small fry never gave up, and kept their discipline, and ended up beating the more fancied West Indies by 95 runs.
It was good to watch, and these guys are improving, butlet's not forget the fact that this is a second string Windies side?! Glancing through the batting line up, the only guy I know is Floyd Reiffer - and it's been quite a while since he last played...
ReplyDeleteBut all credit to the Bangladeshi's - can't wait for them to beat England...
yeah, It was definately a weak Windies team, but as they say "Bangladesh can only play against the team who's picked to play them". I think more than anything it'll give them confidence, I would like to see them play against Pakistan at the mo, could be tight!
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