toygers fall short, but gloriously so

Shakib Al Hasan and his merry men have got it going on.

Hasan is not only the hottest ticket in town, his boys are taking scaring the shit out of Sri Lanka everytime they play them.

The other night, Shakib got the job done, today he couldn’t quite get there.

But after making 152 in a one dayer, the old Bangladesh would have packed the kit up.

Not the new one, they have a bit of Jamie Siddon’s mongrel about them these days.

They are still a little light of for weaponry, I mean they had the Lankans 5/6 and 8/114 in the chase, and still couldn’t win.

I’d back myself to get Murali out, but the Toygers let him get 33 off 16, and thusly win the game.

So while the result is the same, the truth is that they went within a Murali wicket of beating Sri Lanka in a final.

That is huge.

Shakib was a big part of it again, grabbing a lazy double wicket maiden (inkling King Kumar’s wicket, the only 50 in the match) and putting Sri Lanka 8 down.

It took big performacnes from Kumar, Mendis and Murali to beat them, and no team is embarrassed when that happens, they are top of the tops in world cricket.

This time last year Bangladesh was a rubble of rubbishness, where will they be this time next year.

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