Tigers lose all but get dictation for road to The Oval

Bangladesh assimilated whitewash disgrace in the three-match ODI series against hosts New Zealand is surely an omen for Bangladesh cricket especially ahead of the ICC Cricket World Cup 2019. But still Tigers have some areas to slake with.

Toporder collapse
Tamim Iqbal, the leading scorer for Bangladesh across the formats and his opening-mate Liton Das were pitiable with the bat. 5, 5 and 0 were the figures cut by Tamim while  Liton showed consistency of scoring one run in all three clashes. Soumya Sarkar deemed promising in first two matches with good looking 30 and 22 runs but failed to capitalise the starts who also accompanied a golden duck in the last match.
Bangladesh even failed to outdo 250 runs in any of their three batting innings. 232, 226 and 242 were the respective team totals. New Zealand on the contrary, climbed over the ordinary collections in first two matches for the cost of two wickets each, who accumulated 330 in the final one batting first.

Pace bugbear
All the Subcontinent cricket forces including India become feeble in Australia and New Zealand. The tracks having carry and bounce become nightmare for the batters of these region.
Besides, Bangladesh always sweat over to lever 150 km/h plus speedy balls. The thinktank of Bangladesh need to find a cure-all of the phobia before going to British kingdom for partaking in the biggest cricketing face off in England and Wales which is schedule to be staged from May 30 to July 14 this year.

Blunt bowling need to hone
Bangladesh seemed a very strong and diversified bowling unit led by Mashrafe Bin Mortaza. Mustafizur Rahman's cutter and slower along with Saifuddin's slower Yorkers and Rubel Hossain high speedy straighter gave Bangladesh a comfort zone to breathe in but what happened to them in the newly ended ODI series? Bangladesh are imbalanced with both bat and ball sans Shakib but new sensation Mehidy Miraz, the right arm off-spinner also remained futile throughout the series!

Injury intimidate
Bangladesh cricket team has been going thru hard times in New Zealand swallowing all-defeats including the warm-up, who had to fly for the Oceania lacking their ace all-rounder Shakib Al Hasan. It was the beginning of the mishap!
Injury was raid in Tigers tent more devastatingly during the second clash of the series. The most consistent batsman for the visiting side Mohammad Mithun, who shone in first two clashes with twin half centuries, sustained hamstring injury during the match in Christchurch and ruled out of the third clash. His presence could bring something consolidating for Tigers.  
Mr. Dependable Mushfiqur Rahim felt chest pain during second match but half-fit Mushi played the 3rd one handing over gloves to Liton Das for keeping the wickets.

Sabbir's comeback
Sabbir Rahman already got the label of 'bad boy' of Bangladesh cricket, had regained national cap for newly ended series, who has been called in the national tent minimizing the detention from six months to five months. Haters were aloud against Sabbir's inclusion since he got chastise with monetary and other sort of penalties at different occasions for misconduct and off-field activities. It was possibly the last chance for Bangladesh hitter with high bat-lift!
Sabbir, 27, replied aspersers with the bat playing his career best ODI innings of 102 runs from 110 facings in the last duel, which is his maiden ODI hundred. He ended the series as the second highest scorer among all batters of both the sides with 158 runs.

Juniors shine
It becomes tradition that Bangladesh cricket meant the fantastic five and they have been contributing for Tigers for more than one decade. What will happen when they fail- was the question among cricket whiz. The fresh bloods shine but extemporarily.
Critics at all saw the other side of the coin. Juniors excelled against Kiwis. Sabbir, Mithun, Saifuddin and Miraz were fighters in the series where Tamim, Mashrafe, Mushfiq and Mahmudullah were slumped.

Another barren series
in New Zealand
Tigers received Kiwi's hospitality for four bilateral ODI series in its cricketing history to play three matches in all the tours in 2007, 2009, 2016 and the latest one in 2019. Bangladesh were swept cleanly in all the series and the win in New Zealand remain elusive for them.