The Dhaka Times Desk Bangladesh will go to number 6 in ICC if they win this one match today. Bangladesh will take on New Zealand in the final match of the tri-nation series today (Wednesday).
The match between Bangladesh and Ireland on 12 May was abandoned due to rain. Because of that, the points were shared between the two teams. Bangladesh lost the next match against New Zealand by four wickets. However, Bangladesh won the next match against Ireland by 8 wickets.
Due to this victory of 8 wickets, there is no fear of Bangladesh going down in the ranking. For the first time, Bangladesh is facing the challenge of rising to the sixth place in the ranking. Today (May 24) Bangladesh will take the field against New Zealand in the final match of the tri-nation series.
If Bangladesh can beat New Zealand in this match today, they will surpass Sri Lanka and rise to 6 in their best ranking. Currently Bangladesh cricket team is at 7th place in ODI ranking with 90 rating points. The Sri Lankan team is at the sixth place in the list with three points more than Bangladesh.
If Kiwis can be defeated in today's match, three rating points will be added to the name of Bangladesh. In that case, even though Sri Lanka has 93 rating points, Bangladesh will rise to 6 for the first time, surpassing the Lankans. Now the rest just depends on the game. Let's see what the expensive boys of Bangladesh do in the end.
Bangladesh Team (Possible)
Mashrafe Bin Mortuza (Captain), Shakib Al Hasan (Vice-Captain), Mushfiqur Rahim, Tamim Iqbal, Mahmudullah Riyad, Rubel Hossain, Imrul Kayes, Nasir Hossain, Shafiul Islam, Soumya Sarkar, Sabbir Rahman, Mostafizur Rahman, Taskin Ahmed, Mosaddeq. Hesse, Nurul Hasan, Mehdi Hasan Miraj, Shubashish Roy and Sanjamul Islam.
New Zealand Team (Possible)
Tom Latham (captain), Neil Broom, Colin Munro, Henry Nicholls, Seth Rance, Mitchell Santner, Ross Taylor, George Walker, Hamish Bennett, Scott Kugiljohn, James Neesham, Jiten Patel, Luke Ronchi (wicketkeeper), Ish Sodhi and Neil Wagner .
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