Bangladesh not resting on laurels
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CF Correspondent
Bangladesh skipper Mashrafee bin Murtaza insisted that their previous win in the earlier World Cup won’t have any telling effect as they prepare to take on the host at Cardiff on Saturday.
Statistically England are far ahead than Bangladesh, winning 16 matches, in contrast of losing four matches in their 20 encounters. But Bangladesh held the advantage when it comes to ICC Cricket World Cup.
Both team encountered each other thrice in the cricket’s biggest extravaganza and England just won a match in 2007 by four wickets. Bangladesh then defeated England by two wickets in 2011 and by 15 runs in 2015 World Cup, inspired by a deadly spell of Rubel Hossain. By virtue of this victory Bangladesh also made the World Cup quarterfinal for the first time.
The magnitude of that defeat at the hands of Bangladesh was such that England brought wholesale changes to the white-ball cricket method which paid rich dividends, making them the most destructive side who now possessed the two highest score of ODI cricket—481 and 444.
‘’Well, I don't think so it's going to help[the two wins against England in World Cup] us a lot because, you know, even if we lost, it's not going to help us,’’ Mashrafee told reporters ahead of their clash against England at Cardiff on Friday.
‘’It’s a new fresh match. Both teams started from the first ball, so it's very important for both teams starting well,’’ he said.
‘’For us, again, I would say yes, we have been beating them the last two World Cup. It doesn't mean that we will make it happen again the way it did.So yes, obviously there is the chances, and for that, we have to play at our best,’’ he added.
