Whole Bangladesh is dreaming to see Bangladesh in to the quarter final of 10th ICC world cup cricket. Bangladesh needs to beat at least West Indies and Netherlands in the group matches in road to quarter final. Let’s see how we can beat Netherlands easily by accessing previous records and their squad.
Netherlands have some good batsmen but all of them are right handed batsmen. So, if Bangladesh play with 3 left arm spinner Netherlands will not be able to score more than 220 runs. On the other hand, Netherlands bowling is very poor. Bangladesh should easily score 270-300 runs if they bat first. So, there is no way of having any bad result against Dutch.
West Indies have lost Dowane Bravo who is the most reliable all rounder of that team. Bangladesh should play with 2 left arm spinners, 2 right arm spinners and two medium fast bowler. If West Indies play in the way they played against Dutch, they won’t be able to score more than 260 runs against Bangladesh in Bangladeshi pitch. But Bangladesh should be very careful about Chris Gayle and Kieron Pollard. Because, these two batsmen can really destroy any bowling line up within a short time. On the other hand, West Indian bowling is poor enough to score more than 280 runs against them. If Bangladeshi openers play carefully against Kemar Roach, Bangladesh could easily score 80/0 from first 15 over. Then Bangladesh should play normal game to score 120 runs from next 25 over. Bangladesh should score 200 runs from 40 over loosing less than 4 wickets. Then Bangladesh should take batting power play. Bangladesh can easily score 80 runs from last 10 over. So, after 50 over, it is not very difficult to score 280 plus runs against West Indies. Chasing 280 runs against Bangladesh will not be easy for West Indian.
So, Bangladesh can easily enter into quarter final beating West Indies and Netherlands. West Indies has very few chances to beat teams like India and England. They might beat only Ireland in their rest of the matches.
