T20 World Cup 2021: How difficult it is for Bangladesh to qualify for the final round after the upset against Scotland
The qualifying phase of T20 World Cup 2021 has started with a big upset. Bangladesh ranked sixth in the ICC T20 rankings, now finds it difficult to qualify for the final round after losing to Scotland.
In the first innings of the match played at the Al-Amarat Cricket Stadium in Oman, Scotland lost six wickets for a total of only 53 runs, but Bangladesh still lost the match.
All of this was made possible for Scotland thanks to Chris Graves playing his second T20 International. In this match, he took the turn of Scotland and scored 45 runs off just 28 balls. Then in the second innings, he got valuable wickets of batsmen like Shakib Al Hasan and Mushfiqur Rahim from his league spin bowling.
Scotland had set a target of 141 runs in 20 overs to beat Bangladesh.
In pursuit of this target, Bangladesh lost two wickets in the beginning, after which Mushfiqur Rahim and Shakib Al Hasan formed a partnership of 47 runs in 7.4 overs.With the widening gap between runs and balls, the pressure on Bangladesh also increased and they failed to achieve this target in the allotted overs due to continuous loss of wickets.
Scotland bowler Bradwell took three wickets for 24 runs.
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The former Amazon delivery boy who won the match against Scotland
"I'm very proud of Graves," said Scotland captain Kyle Kotzer at the end of the match. Until recently, he was delivering parcels to Amazon (a major e-commerce company). Now he has been declared the best player of the match against Bangladesh.Graves is not one of the central contract players in the Scottish team. He played his first T20 International match earlier this month.
Graves said he still could not believe that he had been given the responsibility of taking over Scotland, which he did well."We were in a difficult situation," he said. We had to rebuild the innings and see how far we could go after that. I still can't believe I'm the person who played a role. "
'Big names never guarantee success'
Bangladesh vs Scotland, of course, was a big name, but in the Group B qualifying match of the T20 World Cup, Bangladesh has suffered a dramatic six-run defeat at the hands of Scotland. The gist of the match is that the Scottish team managed to reach 140 for nine in the allotted 20 overs, even though at one stage its six players had been dismissed for just 53 runs. But Chris Graves' 45 made it difficult.
When it came to Scotland's bowling, Chris Graves' two and Bradwell's three did not allow Bangladesh to lead by a staggering 134 for seven.
When the T20 World Cup qualifying group was being set up, looking at Bangladesh's name in Group B, everyone was thinking that playing against Papua New Guinea, Oman, and Scotland, the Bangladesh team could easily win the T20. Will reach the main round of the World Cup. But the defeat in the first match has dealt him a blow that has put the Bangladeshi players to sleep.
The qualifying competition consists of two groups. There are four teams in each group between which there will be round-robin league matches ie all four teams will play against each other and then two teams from each group will go to the main round.
After losing the first match to Bangladesh, they must beat Oman and Papua New Guinea to reach the main round. Are not visible Bangladesh is currently ranked sixth in the world in terms of T20, so it has entered this qualifying round as a favorite. Scotland, which lost their first match, is 14th in the world.
Bangladesh is taking part in the T20 World Cup for the seventh time.
It is to be remembered that in the first T20 World Cup held in South Africa in 2007, Bangladesh surprised everyone by defeating West Indies by six wickets.
In recent days, Bangladesh has won the T20 series against Zimbabwe, Australia, and New Zealand at home. But the wickets on which all these matches were played did not score much and at that time the Bangladeshis were happy that their spin bowlers were winning in droves.
But batting was still a problem then and now batting in Oman has emerged as the biggest concern for Bangladesh. The manner in which it has started the global competition has put it in danger of being out of the global competition.