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Fringe players try in vain

Star Sport Desk
Like their first practice match against the Sydney Sixers on Wednesday, there was overwhelming support for the Bangladesh Cricket
Board XI (BCB XI) from a vocal Bangladeshi contingent in their second practice match against the Sydney Thunder at the Spotless Stadium in Sydney yesterday. Unlike the rain-affected first game however, the BCB XI came up well short of the mark as horrible top order batting resulted in a six-wicket defeat.
It was a late hand from second-choice wicketkeeper-batsman Nurul Hasan that gave the BCB XI innings a semblance of respectability, his 27-ball 35 rescuing BCB XI from 76 for seven and taking them to 122 foreigh after20overs..
The positives for the Bangladeshis playing their last preparatory match before heading to New Zealand was that it was the fringe players that came to the fore They were given the opportunity as regular skipper Mashrafe Bin Mortaza, Tamim Iqbal, Shakib Al Hasan and Mahmudullah Riyad were rested for the match. Even with fringe players like Nurul, Shuvagata Hom, Subhashis Roy, Tanveer Haider and Kamrul Islam Rabbi impressing, it was the lack of experience and the absence of Mashrafe's strong leadership that told on the result.
Stand-in skipper Mushfiqur Rahim chose to bat and they were soon in trouble at 13 for three against the Sydney pacers. Pat Cummins had Imrul Kayes caught behind off a short ball and Gurinder Sandhu had Soumya Sarkar and Sabbir Rahman caught at mid on. Mushfiqur and Mosaddek then flailed their bats at everything, missing most, before
Mushfiqur finally connected, only to be caught at deep third man off Sandhu to leave his team at 21 for four.
Mosaddek was then bowled by off-spinner Arjun Nair with the score on 38. Mominul Haque suffered the same fate to be sixth out with the score on 49 before Shuvagata, who scored a composed 25, was caught off Cummins at long on. Nurul then took over with some fine hits, none better than a scooped six off Sandhu that thudded into the sightscreen behind the keeper's head. He was run Out in the last over with the score on 117, before Taijul Islam and Haider took them to 122 for eight.
Rubel Hossain, Subhashis and Rabbi bowled with good pace and discipline in Sydney's chase. After Jay Lenton and Ryan Gibson had put on 48 for the first wicket, Rubel had Lenton leg-before with a searing full delivery before having Gibson caught at cover. When Sabbir took a fine running catch at long on to dismiss Jake Doran off Haider, the equation was a shaky 63 to win from the
last 10 overs for Thunder.
It could have been even worse had Mushfiqur not kept appealing for leg-before and instead picked up the ball that rolled past his left leg to stump Aiden Blizzard off Haider in the midst of a crucial 20-run fourth-wicket stand. Subhashis having Blizzard bowled off the inside edge with the score on 80 was the last bit of joy for BCB XI before Sydney skipper Eoin Morgan took them to the target with two overs to spare in the company of Nair. Since both teams needed the practice - Thunders have the Big Bash League-opening Sydney derby on December 20 - the remaining overs were played out and Rubel started that spell off by trapping Morgan leg-before. The fast bowler finished with figures of three for 27 from four overs, while Morgan ended on 33.
SCORES IN BRIEF
BCB XI: 122 for 8 (Nurul 35, Shuvagata 25; Nair2-18, Cummins 2-19)
SYDNEY THUNDER: 123 for 4 (Morgan 33 not out, Gibson 25; Rubel 3-27) Result Sydney Thunder won by 6 wkts.