We have to win this match at any cost.
Bangladesh: Mashrafe Mortaza (captain), Imrul Kayes, Mahmudullah, Mehedi Hasan, Mosaddek Hossain, Mushfiqur Rahim (wicketkeeper), Mustafizur Rahman, Rubel Hossain, Sabbir Rahman, Shafiul Islam, Shakib Al Hasan, Soumya Sarkar, Sunzamul Islam, Tamim Iqbal, Taskin Ahmed.
"Maybe some of the teams have really surprised the opposition with the way they have batted and bowled in certain situations".
"Yeah, we have played these kind of games before quite a few times but there are no guarantees in this sport". He is one win away from leading his side into a major final and will not be distracted by all the palaver about this being a "grudge match". "I just told the players, 'If you take it as a semifinal, the pressure will be very hard, but if you think it's just another match, it will become a lot easier'".
"After that, we beat Pakistan, India and South Africa". Tomorrow is a big game as well and we hope that we wins the match for us. And mind you, it was not just the beard that seemed to make the doppelganger look similar but even his facial features and jaw line. But as a team we are trying to improve our cricket. "Ashwin was brilliant in the last game, and I don't see any good reason to change that", Kohli said on Wednesday.
India's captain is a much more mellow man these days - the Test series against Australia was an anomaly - and he played down any talk of grudges, insisting in this news conference that "it was 24 months ago".
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Carl Hagelin added the empty-netter. "But we always said, 'nobody said that you can't.' And our guys were determined". The Predators went 0 of 4 with the man advantage, including 32 seconds of a 5-on-3 in the third.
Possibly this is the biggest milestone that the Bangla tigers have achieved since they started playing ODI cricket in 1986.
Obviously we have been disappointed, especially in India T20 World Cup we couldn't go through three balls, needed two runs, and our best two batsmen in the wicket.
With that warm-up debacle not officially counting as an ODI, we have to go back to June 2015 to find the last meeting between these two.
Q. Mashrafe, talking about the 2015 World Cup and now this Champions Trophy, in these last two years, what exactly has happened that changed Bangladesh cricket, and where do you see the further changes happening? The Indian batting has done well in most of their group matches and will aim to continue their good form.
When quizzed whether he should be considered as a "role" model, Yuvraj said that he would rather love to be called as a "fighter" as he has managed to play many games for India despite going through so many ups and downs.
An interesting anecdote will reveal how cricket and nationalism has been inter-linked in Bangladesh's social life and even cricketers have been voluntarily a part of it. But at the end of the day, it's a cricket game, so whoever plays well, they'll win. "I am very happy to know that he would be achieving the milestone".
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