Test Cricket Tours Bangladesh to West Indies 2004

Test Cricket Tours - Bangladesh to West Indies 2004

Tour of West Indies 2004                  Captain : Habibul Bashar

Bangladesh’s ninth Test tour.
   (May - June 2004)

First Test-playing tour of West Indies by Bangladesh
   (no previous tour)

Latif Khan withdrew as Manager saying he needed surgery on a painful shoulder. It was he who had sent Mohammad Rafique back on the first available flight after a dressing room row in Zimbabwe.
The Bangladesh Board again engaged Sri Lankan batting coach Wayne Mattau and American baseball coach Mike Young for the pre-tour preparation camp.
Only two seam bowlers were selected for the team as Bangladesh put its faith in spin. Coach Whatmore had by now instilled in them a fighting spirit, that saw the team achieve a genuine draw in the first Test and they would have fared well in the one-day series but for poor catching.

All Bangladesh tours

Previous tour
to Zimbabwe 2003-04

Next tour
England 2005

Next tour of West Indies
2009

Members of the Test tour party
(15)

Opening batsmen: Javed Omar
Middle-order batsmen Faisal Hossain, Habibul Bashar, Hannan Sarkar, Mohammad Ashraful, Mushfiqur Rahman, Rajin Saleh
Wicket-keeper/batsman: Khaled Mashud
All-rounder:
Slow bowlers: Enamul Haque, Manjural Islam Rana, Mohammad Rafique
Fast bowlers:Alamgir Kabir, Tapash Baisya, Tarek Aziz.

Alamgir Kabir
Rj
23
RFM

Alok Kapali
S
20
RHB LB
ODI

Enamul Haque (jun)
S
18
SLA

Faisal Hossain
C
25
LHB
ODI

Habibul Bashar
Kh
31
RHB captain
ODI

Hannan Sarkar
Ba
21
RHB
ODI

Javed Omar
D
27
RHB opener

Khaled Mashud
Rj
28
WK
ODI

Manjural Islam ‘Rana’
Kh
20
SLA
ODI
born 4 May 1984, died 16 March 2007
Mohammad Ashraful
D
19
RHB
ODI

Mohammed Rafique
D
32
SLA
ODI

Mushfiqur Rahman
Rj
24
RHB
ODI

Rajin Saleh
S
20
RHB vice-captain
ODI

Tapash Baishya
S
21
RFM
ODI

Tarek Aziz
C
20
RFM
ODI

For the one-day international
Abdur Razzaq Raj
ODI
                          series only
Khaled Mahmud
ODI

Shahriar Hossain
ODI


Divisional representation
(National Cricket League)

Ba - Barisal (1)
C - Chittagong (2)
D – Dhaka (3)
DM - Dhaka Metropolis (0)
K - Khulna (2)
Rj - Rajshahi (3)
S - Sylhet (4)


Average age of team at time of first Test match
(28 May 2004) :
    23 yrs 3 months
.

ODI member of the one-day squad.

Test Appearances made before the tour

Habibul Bashar 28, Khaled Mashud 25, Javed Omar 19, Mohammad Ashraful 17, Alok Kapali 14, Hannan Sarkar 14, Tapash Baishya 13, Mohammed Rafique 10, Rajin Saleh 7, Mushfiqur Rahman 6, Alamgir Kabir 3, Enamul Haque (jun) 2, Manjural Islam Rana 2, Faisal Hossain 0, Tarek Aziz 0.

Tour Officials

Faruque Ahmed
Tour operations manager
Dav Whatmore
Coach
Dean Woodford
Fitness Trainer
John Gloster
Physiotherapist
Nasir Ahmed
Computer Analyst

Chief selector Faruque Ahmed was appointed tour operations manager on 28 April, after Lt-Col Latif Khan expressed his unavailability.

Selectors

Faruque Ahmed (Chief Selector), Athar Ali Khan, G.M.Nowsher Prince and Dav Whatmore.

Selection

Not considered : Mashrafe Mortaza (injured).

The training camp began on 29 March with fitness work for 24 probables. When Dav Whatmore returned from holiday on 10 April the camp worked on skills with batting coach Wayne Mattau. Mike Young, baseball coach, joined the camp on 13 April for fielding skills.

Not chosen from camp Mohammad Al-Shahriar, Anwar Hossain Monir, Jamaluddin, Monjural Islam Monju, Nafees Iqbal, Tushar Imran.

Tour Party Announced : 19 April 2004.

Time between selection and departure from Bangladesh
   17 days
(19 April - 6 May)

Travel
Dhaka Q London Q St Vincent

A pre-tour training camp resumed on 3 May.
The ODI squad left Zia International Airport, Dhaka, on Thursday morning 6 May 2004 on a British Airways flight to London, making a short stopover, before flying on to St Vincent where they arrived on 7 May 2004.
Javed Omar, Enamul Haque Jr and Alamgir Kabir joined them for the Test series.

Time spent in West Indies
   33 days
(7 May   - 9 June)

On-tour selection panel

Dav Whatmore, Habibul Bashar, Faruque Ahmed

Reinforcements

None required.

Fixtures/Results

The venue for one of the Testmatches was shifted from Georgetown because it coincided with the rainy season

a
† Kingstown, St Vincent
W.I.C.B. Board XI
Won 3 w
b
§ Kingstown, St Vincent
West Indies (1st ODI)
Lost 1 w
c
§ Kingstown, St Vincent
West Indies (2nd ODI)
Lost 23 r
d
§ St George's, Grenada
West Indies (3rd ODI)
Lost 7 w
e
St George's, Grenada
WICB Board XI
Drawn
f
GROS ISLET, ST LUCIA
WEST INDIES First Test
DRAWN
g
KINGSTON
WEST INDIES Second Test
LOST inns 99 r

§ one-day international
† not first-class

Time spent in West Indies before First Test:
  21 days
(7 May - 28 May)

Test appearances on tour

2 -   Habibul Bashar, Hannan Sarkar, Javed Omar, Khaled Mashud, Mohammad Rafique, Mohammad Ashraful, Rajin Saleh, Tapash Baishya, Tarek Aziz, Mushfiqur Rahman.
1 - Faisal Hossain, Manjural Islam Rana.

Match appearances

T Test match
o one-day international
x other match
∙ played for opposition

W won L lost D drawn
N no result   A abandoned
u unknown result.

Abdur Razzaq Raj did not play a match on tour.

a
b
c
d
e
f
g
Alamgir Kabir

x

Alok Kapali
x
o
o

x

Enamul Haque

x

Faisal Hossain

o
x
T

Habibul Bashar
x
o
o
o

T
T
Hannan Sarkar

o
o
x
T
T
Javed Omar

x
T
T
Khaled Mashud
x
o
o
o
x
T
T
Manjural Islam ‘Rana’
x
o
o
o

T
Mohammad Ashraful
x
o
o
o
x
T
T
Mohammed Rafique
x
o
o
o

T
T
Mushfiqur Rahman
x
o
o
o

T
T
Rajin Saleh
x
o
o
o
x
T
T
Tapash Baishya
x
o
o
o
x
T
T
Tarek Aziz

x
T
T
Abdur Razzaq Raj

Khaled Mahmud
x
o
o
o

Shahriar Hossain
x
o

R E S U L T S
W
L
L
L
D
D
L

Bangladesh’s six previous Test tour results:

in Zimbabwe 2003-04 (2 Tests)
- lost 0-1
in Pakistan 2003 (3 Tests)
- lost 0-3
in Australia 2003 (2 Tests)
- lost 0-2
in South Africa 2002-03 (2 Tests)
- lost 0-2
in Sri Lanka 2002 (2 Tests)
- lost 0-2
in New Zealand 2001-02 (2 Tests)
- lost 0-2

Highlights

• Three centuries were scored in the drawn First Test at St Lucia : Habibul Bashar (113), Mohammad Rafique (111) scored at number nine in the batting order, and Khaled Mashud (103*) to save the match.
• Bangladesh secured a lead of 336, which enabled Habibul Bashar, Bangladesh's captain, to declare for the first time in his country's history.
• Tapash Baisya finished with 5-1-16-4, the best figures by a Bangladeshi in ODIs, in the 2nd ODI.

Tour Summary

P
W
L
D
Aban
Test Matches
2
0
1
1
-
Other first-class matches
1
0
0
1
-
† Minor matches
1
1
0
0
-
§ One-day internationals
3
0
3
0
-
All Matches
7
1
4
2
-

Return to Bangladesh

Kingston Q London Q Dhaka

Shahriar Hossain, Khaled Mahmud and Abdur Razzak Raj left Grenada on 19 May to return home after the one-day series.
Dav Whatmore had to fly back to Melbourne on 1 June for a family funeral.
The Test-playing team left Kingston on 9 June for London. Landed at Dhaka early on Saturday 12 June after a 24-hour marathon journey.

Total time away from Bangladesh
    37days
(6 May - 12 June)

Finances

Postscript