Hi,fellow mates,
Let me give an inch to me to express what I a feel first,today has been a day of great learning as I had the privilege to watch a local bilateral match played between two cricketing nations ; one nation that came from mid asian territory, nation known as the graveyard of empires,Afghanistan and the other nation which got the independence near half a century ago, has been a part of iconic test playing nation criteria, Red & Green Representative -- Bangladesh.
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Into The Context.
If you do follow modern cricket and have your eyes rolled over the tv screen and stay in the await for your favourite team to play matches, then you would pretty quickly catch the theme of two class ;one who has the experience of playing 5 day long test matches, and the other who joined test matches off late.
As I was watching the first match of a ODI Series, I was quite sure, with the home environment in hand,having the better grip of pitch curating and mixing the stedium environment into home favour, the green and blue would pretty quickly get hold of the first match and overall judging the whole team strength and superior experience, they would clean the sheets and secure a bold win.
My Prognosis Turned Wrong!!
Sometimes even the smartest of betting card go wrong and flip upside down.Even the Elephants do slip from the road and fall in dirt. But whatever the natue has for us to give, I was not sure that much has been kept for the team to happen,when I saw the end result, OMG.. Then suddenly I understood its not the experience that has the ultimate say, but graces be given to the young minds also who manipulate the dices!! Ha ha,😀
ODI Match Fact.
50 overs to be played and the game normally takes a day as it is called as a One Day International.
I was having a sharp of my wrist watch to see when the timer would ring and remind me of the match on the instant, and I had an outing to make for the rest of the day.Being busy, I switched on the pocket data and plugged in the sports channel to connect to the match and readily the match was going on in the sweet beats.
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The match was going smoothly and on the steady progress, after some times, Bangladeshi bowlers tried to curb the momentum getting shifted to the Afghan side, as the batters quite certainly built up a nice partnership in the middle, though their run rate was slow initially, but it grew up a bit when the middle order was in charge for a while, but in the late half of 50 over period,wicket started to collpase on and lost the influence.
Afghans with their short term moderate batting strength managed to score 220+,I cant recall the exact piece of info,make a pardon for this.Okay,and then the Bangladeshi batters came on the groove of hitting the big shots early on, without having a sharp read of the pitch and then adjusting on to shape the innings to stretching extent. But, the scene was different.
Staggering Scene Of 2nd Innings.
The sun was setting in the later half of the match and the Indian Ocean Arc, Bay Of Bengal side solo port, the Chittagong City was in the late of the springtime weather,bit cold and bit of breeze was the part of the weather.The field had short sized grass all around the ground and pacers came on action suddenly.
You know,Afghan spinners quite remarkablly developed a broad reputation slightly in a short possible time as they developed their skills in a profound way.Braces of their spinner had both the experience and skill sets on their shoulder, plus they competed in a standard T20 tournament like Indian Premier League(IPL).
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So,with 220 on the board, they were bit confident of throwing a tough challenge on the Bangladeshi experienced batters.Slowly things started to change and Farooqi (An Afghan Pacer) came and with some rapid deliveries, he managed to take successive wickets which literally collapsed the whole middle order followed by top orders.
The Unbelievable Event.
6 batters were down and they had only managed to score just 45 on the board!! That was the reality and the late order had a raw experience of playing.They were so naive to play, that some of the spectators started speaking of the way they got hold of the grip of the bat, ha ha! 😀.. Not that funny to think, if you would read this until the end.
The match just passed the first powerplay and already the late orders down to play and in opposition there were just world class quality spinners in the mode of serious threat, such sheer spinners who in any situation and in any pitch can take frequent wickets!! Additionally the pitch was spin friendly and 6 wickets down,some bowlers was in next to come.
Mehedi Hasan & Afif Hossain, the two batters with less to nothing experience in hand started a nice plan which I personally appreciate,they talked about them on the post match presentation. According to their initial read of the match,I do applaud their ready wit,they theorized that, let us enjoy batting,like we are practising in the net, being freed of the pressure lets roll over after over and letting go off the required rate or the equation in the hand.
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My Observation.
I sometime flare up with excitement when I see such insights & The Latent Philosophies these little young men possess!! Who knows what God can show to us but that was to me the perfect game plan to be followed in that period.When there is less to concede and the one thing is just to make, then hard ice start to melt with little but steady work doing in ease and reaching to the end of the play.These boys did it perfectly, And for that I am super happy 💖..
The 7th wicket partnership lasted for the rest of the match and these two young and new guys, anchored the innings to the end making 160+ runs.More of what is great to see in the end,they hold the grip and secured the win.Such pleasure to watch this incredible achievement!! The nation is proud surely to see this thing.
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What I learnt.
Sometimes life teaches us to bank on the minors,though their contribution is little for the most of the time, but when situation demands the most and majors fail to hold to the fire,then the minors do some unbelievable things, that speak of the fact that dont misunderstand the underdogs,because when it is time to actual show up,they save the whole case.
And exactly these two young man did the same. Thanks for reading and I would bade you until the next time we meet in another blog.Good bye and take care.