Two decades of test cricket: Is Bangladesh one of the worst test teams in world cricket in the first 20 years?

Today exactly 20 years ago, Bangladesh took to the field to play the first test cricket match.

Naimur Rahman Durjoy led the Bangladesh team to the Test match against India on November 10, 2000 at the National Stadium in Dhaka.

Bangladesh, however, lost that opening match after earning Test status in cricket by a huge margin – 9 wickets – and that was four days from now, with one more day in the game.

Since then, in the last 20 years, Bangladesh has played a total of 119 test matches, and the scale of losses is quite large.

At this time, Bangladesh has won only 14 events. And he lost 69 tests, tied 16 test matches.

In other words, it can be said that Bangladesh has won about one-tenth of the total test matches, one part has been drawn, and Bangladesh has lost the remaining eight percent of the tests.

Bangladesh has not only lost in these 69 events, the national team has lost 43 of them by one inning. In other words, the Bangladesh cricket team failed to score as many runs as the opponent scored 43 times in one inning.

Of these 43 times, the Bangladesh cricket team had a deficit of 200 or more runs in 12 innings over 12 runs in one inning. In other words, the inning difference rates were disappointing.

But the question is, in the first 20 years, has only Bangladesh performed that poorly, or is there a partner in this case?

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In the last twenty years, Zimbabwe, an African country, has played quality test cricket near Bangladesh.

Since Bangladesh attained Test status, Bangladesh and Zimbabwe have played 16 Test matches against each other, two of which have been won by seven teams and three have been tied.

Zimbabwe, which began playing test cricket in 1992, won nine of eight test matches in 2012, the first 20 years.

Zimbabwe has produced 28 tests and lost 52 games.

These figures show that in the first 20 years after obtaining probationary status, Zimbabwe has had fewer probationary matches than Bangladesh and has won fewer matches.

Sri Lanka played its first test match in 1982.

They turned 20 in test cricket in 2002. During this time, Sri Lanka won 12 of 129 test matches. At a rate of 51 tests, 48 ​​test matches were drawn.

In the five-day match, Sri Lanka and Bangladesh have met 20 times so far, of which Bangladesh won 1 Test and tied 3 matches. Sri Lanka has won the remaining 16 matches.

Bangladesh won its only 100th test match against Sri Lanka.

Bangladesh has not won any Test Matches with Pakistan so far.

Pakistan has won 10 of its 11 test matches against Bangladesh. Only 1 test has been developed.

Pakistan has been playing test cricket since 1952.

It took Pakistan about 30 years to play the first 120 tests. During this time, they won 23 tests, lost 32 and took 75 tests.

India began playing test cricket in 1932, and it took them almost 30 years to play their first 120 tests.

During this time, India won 18 events, lost 49 and tied 56 events.

Bangladesh has yet to win a Test match against India.

Of the 11 test matches played between the two countries, India won 9 and drew 2 tests.

New Zealand began playing test cricket in 1930.

In 1958, almost 26 years after the start of the game, New Zealand won a Test Match for the first time.

But since that bad start, New Zealand has gradually solidified its position and gradually became a test team to be revered in world cricket.

This figure is probably understandable: New Zealand has won 101 of 442 test matches so far. They have lost 175 games and tied 16 games.

At the moment, New Zealand ranks second in test cricket.

In the first 120 events, New Zealand won only 9 events. At that time, in 55 Tests, 57 matches were drawn.

Bangladesh has yet to win a Test match against New Zealand.

Of the 15 test matches played with Bangladesh so far, New Zealand won 12 and tied 3 tests.

Among the old test teams, Bangladesh’s record is somewhat better than that of the West Indies.

However, analysts say that in the last decade, the West Indies cricket authorities have not placed as much emphasis on test cricket as on short-lived matches.

In 2009, Bangladesh won the Test for the first time against a low-powered West Indies team. Cricketers from the West Indies main team went on strike due to a dispute with the board.

After that, however, Bangladesh was unable to beat the West Indies from 2011 to 2016.

Finally, in 2016, Bangladesh shut out the West Indies in a two-match test series.

The West Indies and Bangladesh have played a total of 18 Tests against each other: Bangladesh won 4 of them, the West Indies won 10 matches and 2 Test matches were drawn.

The West Indies began playing test cricket in 1926. It played its 120th test in January 1989.

In the first game, the West Indies won 42 of the 120 test matches. They lost 36 games and tied 39 games.

Among the test cricket teams, Bangladesh has one win each against Australia and England in 2016 and 2017.

Australia and England are the two starting teams in test cricket.

Test cricket started in those 18 years. Initially, for more than a decade, until 189, Australia and England only played test cricket with each other.

South Africa began playing test cricket in 189, and at 16-18 lost to England in its 12th Test.

However, in the first five decades of test cricket, England and Australia played 114 matches against each other, of which Australia won 48 matches, England won 42 matches and drew 25 matches.

In other words, no Big Two team was ahead by a large margin at the time.

New Zealand was in a slightly worse position in test cricket at first than Bangladesh, but after a difficult time New Zealand didn’t have to look back.

In the last 20 years, Bangladesh, New Zealand, India, Pakistan, Sri Lanka, South Africa, Australia, England, have failed to take advantage of any team in test cricket.

Despite some performances with Zimbabwe at Daputa, the two teams remain on par.

Bangladesh also lost a Test Match to Zimbabwe on their own soil in 2016.

And the most important was the result of the game with Afghanistan: Bangladesh lost in the only test match with Afghanistan, which had just obtained test status in 2019.

But why this situation in Bangladesh?

The top four spinners on the list of those who have taken the most ground in test cricket for Bangladesh so far.

These four are followed by Mashrafe bin Mortaza, who has not played test cricket since 2009.

Mashrafe has taken 6 wickets in 36 test matches. In other words, no rhythm bowler has taken 6 wickets for Bangladesh in the last 10 years.

Mashrafe remains the biggest candidate for the test in Bangladesh.

On February 24, 2020, Bangladesh scored more than 400 runs in one inning against Zimbabwe.

Bangladesh never reached 250 in any of the previous 10 entries.

In 2019, Bangladesh lost four consecutive test matches against Afghanistan at home and between India and Pakistan.

In three of these four events, Bangladesh lost by one inning and lost by 222 runs to Afghanistan.

Bangladesh failed to score more than 233 runs in any inning.

In Bangladeshi test cricket, batting, bowling and fielding, the weaknesses in these three areas are quite notable.

Not being able to hit patiently, being on a shot when you need to be at the wicket, which can feel like a quick run.

Bangladeshi batsmen have rarely spent their entire season in test cricket in the fold without losing a wicket.

Bangladesh hitters have also been observed returning to the pavilion just before the end of a particular session or late in the day, losing ground.

Although players like Tamim Iqbal, Mushfiqur Rahim or Shakib Al Hasan occasionally cover up their batting failures in Tryouts by playing a few innings, bowlers are rarely seen making an aggressive 20-wicket round.

In some tests conducted at home, Bangladesh has sometimes taken 20 plots with spinning skittles from teams like England or Australia, but this has rarely been seen away from home.

And so, a decade has passed since Bangladesh last won a series of tests outside the country.

Bangladesh won the Test series 2-0 with a second-tier West Indies team in 2009 after the majority of West Indies cricketers went on strike.