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Merdeka Cup Bangladesh in tough group

Sports Reporter
Bangladesh will meet Mozambique for the first time in an international match when the two sides face off in their Group B match of the Merdeka Cup on October 16.
Bangladesh play neighbours Myanmar in their second match on October 18 and will be pitted against Vietnam in their last group match on October 20.
All Bangladesh's matches will be played at the Shah Alam Stadium in Malaysian capital Kuala Lumpur.
The Group A matches and the two semifinals on October 23 will be played at the MPBJ Stadium at Kuala Lumpur.
Hosts Malaysia have drawn Sierra Leone, Afghanistan and Nepal in Group A.
The final is slated for October 25.
Bangladesh coach Shafiqul Islam Manik will announce his final squad for the trip today
New Zealand try to unravel pitch
iKl Cricket
Sports Reporter
It seemed that under pressure New Zealand tried to understand the trick of the pitch at Mirpur yesterday ahead of their crucial battle against the Tigers in the second match of the three-match series.
Captain Daniel Vettori had a long look at the surface during practice to make sure that his guys will not make the same mistake here to lose the three-match series with a match in hand.
The left-arm spinner had cautioned prior to the start of the series that the Tigers could have been tricky opponents in their own conditions and his words were proven right in the very first match to dash their hope of taking the second place in the ranking after Australia.
The Kiwis had a long meeting yesterday to discuss the mistakes
they had made in the first game and Jamie How, who appeared to the press to divulge the sentiment of his side after the shocking sevenwicket loss, confirmed that the visitors are ready to come hard on the home side.
"We are obviously disappointed with the loss but equally we are determined to make the turnaround and win the series,” said Jamie while talking with the reporters at the Sher-e-Bangla National Stadium in Mirpur after completion of the practice yesterday.
"I think we were a bit rusty, it's our first game in quite a few months now, and we have been training very hard. I think it took us a while to adjust to the conditions and hopefully we have learnt a lot from the first game and when we come out tomorrow, we will play a lot better.
"Just being smarter in the conditions, bowling a better length and better line, adapting to the slow
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