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Hosts' good luck venue

SHAHIDUL ISLAM, Chittagong
With one day to go before they lock horns with South Africa, there are a
number of positives that theTiger's can derive from the venue of the secondlhst.
The Chittagong Divisional Stadium has more often than not proved kind to the Bangladesh team with the memory of some telling individual performances, at least two 300-plus innings in three matches played here against Sri Lanka, Australia and India since 2006 and a good wicket still strong in the memory.
The home team may also find encouragement from the fact that of the three outings two matches were pushed until the fifth and final day.
And, these positives were reflected 'cautiously' by some players of the home team, sports organisers and fans here in Chittagong yesterday while both the Bangladesh and South African players were flexing their muscles in the mild afternoon of the bright spring.
The players trained for around three hours.
'The wicket by and large at the Chittagong Divisional Stadium, I think, will be batting-friendly and
the behaviour of the pitch may change slightly after the second or third day in favour of bowlers," said batsman Shahriaer Nafees, expressing hope that the wicket here would play better than at Mirpur.
Captain Mohammad Ashraful reiterated the statement saying,"The wicket in Chittagong is always good for batting and it will be the same as usual.
“What is important is for us to score runs and 1 hope my teammates, especially the batsmen won't let us down here," said the Bangladeshi skipper.
Although pitch curator Shafiul Alam Belal declined to make any comments about the surface or its probable behaviour, eminent sports organiser Ali Abbas said that 'every-thing would depend on the mental and technical application of the ability of Bangladeshi players' who, according to him, 'have a tendency to breakdown all of a sudden.'
There was a vested interest amongst most youngsters about the cricket and it was evident while speaking to Anis Ahmed, a cricket fan and teacher of physical training institute at Chittagong University.
"We expect at least a competitive edge and some entertainment from our players here in the port city," he said.
Despite an unflattering record of
two defeats and one draw, the Tigers may yet take inspiration from the previous three Test matches played at the Divisional Stadium
In the last rain-interrupted drawn match here against India in 2007 (from May 18 to May 22), Mashrafee Mortaza, Shahadat Hossain and Mohammad Rafique did exceptionally well with their tight and accurate bowling.
Mashrafee took five wickets in the match besides playing a run-a-ball cameo innings of 79 with three sixes and seven boundaries. The all-round performance had eventually brought the man-of-the-match prize for him.
Shahadat (5 wickets and 31 run) and Rafique (3 wickets and 41 run) also lent all-round contributions in that match.
Ashraful also has fond memories with the stadium back in February, 2006 when he scored an impressive century (136) against Sri Lanka in the Bangladesh first innings (319 all out), for which he won the M-o-M prize.
Bangladesh also scored another 300-plus figure at the venue against Australia and the positive of this match was that that score (304 all out) came in the second innings where Shahriar Nafees (79) and Rafique (53-ball 65 with two fours and six sixes) shone.