Bangladesh Under-19 will play their last warm up match today against Australia just a day ahead to begin their ICC Under-19 Cricket World Cup from tomorrow.
Young Tigers’ last practice match is taking place in Pretoria when they will start their campaign of the Under-19 World Cu in Bloemfontein, some 432 kilometres away from today’s venue.
Bangladesh following their big 112 runs defeat in the first practice match to Sri Lanka in the rain interrupted match, is going to face off a huge challenge of Australia.
Australia a powerful and the most successful team next to India in the Under-19 World Cup.
It will be very important match for the Young Tigers to review their lacking and mistakes they did in the previous match against Sri Lanka when six batters were out for single digit when only Jeshan Alama at the middle was looked a bit impressive when he scored 26 off 27 balls and the second highest was only 15 runs.
The most exciting batter Ashiqur Rahman Shibli, who was the highest scorer in the Asia Cup, his brilliant performance steer Bangladesh to be crowned for the first time, also flopped when he scored only 11 runs.
In fact, none of the top orders could put up any stubborn resistance with the bat when they were not impressive and could produce any encouraging performance in the first warm-up match against Sri Lanka, Bangladesh could manage only 119 runs losing nine wickets from 36.2 overs when they were set a revised target of 232 runs from 36.2 overs.
So, for the Young Tigers this match is a chance to rectify for themselves.
Meanwhile, the top performer in the Asia Cup, Ashiqur Rahman Shibli could score only 11 runs when his opening partner Adil Bin Siddique scored 15 runs.
The batters would need to make much more of an impact against the powerful side Australia, which would be something inspiring in their World Cup campaign.
