Making marks in cricket
We congratulate the Boys for sailing into the semifinal of the Under-19 World Cup Cricket underway in three cities of the country. In the first quarterfinal on Friday in Dhaka, they trounced Nepal by six wickets to the jeers of the frantic home crowds.
A splendid 113-run fifth-wicket stand between captain Mehedi Hasan and Zakir Hasan steered Bangladesh to the semi-finals after completing a six-wicket win against Nepal in Dhaka. The pressure steadily built on the pair after Joyraz Sheikh was dismissed for a patient 38. However, they found the boundary, rotated the strike and compiled fifties in the process as Bangladesh reached the target with 10 balls to spare.
Perhaps, this is the first time that Bangladesh cruised into the last four of this kind of tournament, which however, failed to draw audiences in the stadiums on most of the days. But the reality is that the country is producing cricketers, or to say there are breeds of genius. When most of the islands of the West Indies are opting for basketball and soccer, and when Pakistan’s future as a cricket playing nation is hovering in the horizon, Bangladesh are showing prospect of new horizon in the international cricket.
We expect more records from the Bangladesh cricketers.
Ameer Abdullah
Dhaka
