All Cricket Tips w/c 9th March

Plenty of action in our local One Day Cup throughout the week. Internationally Bangladesh v Pakistan ODI's start Wednesday, Afghan v Sri Lanka T20's start Friday and New Zealand v South Africa T20's get underway on Sunday.

All this week's cricket tips, any competition, are most welcome here 

With the T20 World Cup done and dusted, focus moves to preparation for the 2027 ODI World Cup to be held in South Africa. The first match in this cycle sees Bangladesh take on Pakistan at the Shere Bangla National Stadium in Mirpur.

Pakistan arrive in Mirpur with six uncapped players in their squad, four of them top-order batsmen, primarily in a bid to build some depth and address their poor performance with the bat at the recently concluded T20 World Cup. Among them is opener and tournament top scorer at the WC, Sahibzada Farhan. 

Bangladesh have selected their strongest available squad for this series with the focus being on out of form opener Liton Das dropping down to 5 in the batting order. They have plenty of quality spin options in Mehidy Hasan Miraz, Taiful Islam and Rishad Hossein with opening batsman Siaf Hassan a good and solid option as 6th bowler. 

The pitch at Shere Bangla took a lot of turn in the recent series between Bangladesh and West Indies and this is where my bets will be focused. Games at this ground have not been very high scoring in general, the highest 1st innings score in the first ODI of the series at this ground is 256/7 by Bangladesh v Sri Lanka in 2021. Pakistan under 256.5 innings runs 87/100 @ WSB

As mentioned, this pitch is known as a spin-friendly pitch, thus my other two bets will rely on this. Rishad Hossein boasts an excellent record at Shere Bangla where he took 6/35 against the Windies in October. He has also scored his highest first class score of 99 at this ground and was in the wickets here in the recently concluded Bangladesh T20 Cup.

Rishad Hossein Top Match Bowler 8/1 @ BetXchange
Rishad Hossein Player of the Match 37/2 @ BetXchange. (11/1 at other places)

Main bet: Bangladesh win 13/10 @ WSB. Pakistan trying out a few new combinations up front and not nearly as covered in the spin department with Abrar being their only main spinner this series. Reckon the bookies got this price wrong.

Well well, both teams going with 3 pacers:
Bangladesh: 1 Saif Hassan, 2 Tanzid Hasan, 3 Towhid Hridoy, 4 Najmul Hossain Shanto, 5 Litton Das (wk), 6 Afif Hossain, 7 Mehidy Hasan Miraz (c), 8 Rishad Hossain, 9 Taskin Ahmed, 10 Nahid Rana, 11 Mustafizur Rahman
Pakistan: 1 Sahibzada Farhan, 2 Maaz Sadaqat, 3 Shamyl Hussain, 4 Mohammad Rizwan (wk), 5 Salman Agha, 6 Hussain Talat, 7 Abdul Samad, 8 Faheem Ashraf, 9 Shaheen Shah Afridi (c), 10 Mohammad Wasim, 11 Abrar Ahmed

The game can be live streamed via Sports TV on Youtube