Bangladesh vs India Test series

After 13 months Bangladesh squad is going to start their Test series again. The test series is going on in Chittagong and our tigers are ready to face the Indian squad.

Bangladesh’s skipper said they will to their good performance in the Test Cricket. Indian team has more experience than Bangladesh. After a long gap Bangladesh is starting the Test series against India.

We hope that Bangladesh will do the best performance in the series. In India team there are more experienced players. We expect that our bowler and batmen will do well. Bangladesh is improving gradually.

The performance in the World Cup is remarkable Bravo! Bangladesh. If our boys play seriously, they will bring glory for us.

We looks at Habibul Bashar, the skipper of Bangladesh team will do something for us. India is a strong squad. But it is not an important thing our team that there are many experienced players in Indian team. Our tigers are ready to fight with them.

Hope, our boys, Masrafe Bin Mortoza, Mohammad Rafiq, Shahadat Hossain will play their best. The opportunity of playing Test series will bring Bangladesh forward. And near future, Bangladesh will be a strong team and keep a sign in the book of the world.

Pictures of Bangladesh: Life of a Little Street Girl in Dhaka City

Written by Suchitra Roy

Champabati is 12 years old girl and lives in a slum in Dhaka City. At this age, she had to go to school but now she is collecting torn papers from one area to another area of Dhaka City and does it until evening .Then she gathers all the papers and takes her preparation for selling them. She gets a very little profit from it.

During talking with her, she has expressed her secreted regret that she hates to lead this type of life and is to face many problems. She dreams to be educated like other girls who are leading a different type of life, not like her in the society.

Champabati studied before but for her family she was to leave her school. She shows her anger to her father and blames him for her miserable life. Yet she is working all day long keeping a sweet dream in her heart that one day happy day will come for her.

Pictures of Bangladesh: A Street Cake Maker in Dhaka City

Written by Suchitra Roy

Bangladesh, the green land is full of natural beauty. At the present, Bangladesh takes a different appearance and color in each season. In winter season, we can to arrange a festival (Poish Paban Mela) of making different types of cakes in each home in our villages of Bangladesh.

But we see some male & female to make cake named ‘Chitoi Pitha’ beside the street of Dhaka City. They try to make up the demand of the city people.

One of them is Shafia Begum who has been making cakes on the street for 7 years. Everyday she sells her hand made ‘Chitoi Pitha’ with dry fish mash.

Shafia Begum makes 150 pieces of cakes and her benefit is only Tk50 per day. She sells her cakes to all classes of people and they are buying them eagerly. Her making process of cakes is so skillful. At her old age this profession is the only way to meet up her daily needs. But it is very hard to maintain her family.

She said, “Inshallah my business will go well through the blessing of God.”

India vs Bangladesh Cricket: Who are the Umpires?

From May 10, 2007, India and Bangladesh is going to fight in cricket ground. The names of umpires have been selected. Daryl Harper and Billy Doctrove, Ashoka De Silva of Sri Lanka will be the umpire in that series.

India Times Cricket reported:

Shah will stand with neutral umpire De Silva in the first match at Mirpur while Huq will join him for the last two encounters in Chittagong, Bangladesh Cricket Board (BCB) have announced.

Another home umpire Akhtar Uddin Shaheen will be the TV umpire for the ODI series.

Shah and Huq will be the TV umpires for the Test series. Roshan Mahanama will be the ICC match referee.

India vs Bangladesh : Shastri and Indian Cricket

In ICC World Cup Cricket 2007, Bangladesh Beat India in the first round. For this India’s dream of world cup was broken. After world cup 2007, India is going to meet again for 10^th May 2007 at Dhaka. Indian cricket team manager, Ravi Shastri, promised to see India returning at Dhaka.

The Hindu reported:

Shastri, who took charge of the Indian team only for the ensuing series, said the tour would be a challenge. "It will be a challenging tour especially after the World Cup debacle. We will put out our best foot forward,'' he told newsmen before the camp wound up on Sunday morning.

Referring to the past performance, Shastri said, "what I did not like in the last six months was that the cricketers were going through the motions like they were doing a sort of a 9 to 5 job. If you don't enjoy playing, then forget about winning,'' he said.

Dravid will captain the side. There is no question about that. We know who will lead in case of any eventuality,'' he informed.

The fielding coach, Robin Singh, also drew praise from Shastri. "Robin is tough task master. He will make you put in the best,'' he said.

India is not thinking that it will be easy to beat Bangladesh. It is clear to their conversion.

Maize Corn cultivation in Bangladesh

Maize corn is one of the important crops in Bangladesh. The Northern part of Bangladesh mainly Rajshahi, Rangpur, Bogra area is suitable for cultivating this maize corn.

Green maize corn field
After harvesting and thrashing the leaf it is looking yellow

India tour on Bangladesh without Sachin Tendulker?

Bangladesh and India Cricket series will start from 10^th May at Dhaka. Bangladesh is determined to play a good cricket on that series. But what will be role of Indian cricketers. The star Batsman Sachin Tentulker is injured for his anklet problem.

The International Herald Tribune has reported:

Tendulkar suffered the injury Wednesday while negotiating a bouncer from fast bowler S. Sreesanth on the first day of a weeklong conditioning camp.

"Sachin Tendulkar is much better. It (the ankle) is almost 80 percent," Samir Dasgupta, a team manager, told reporters.

Tendulkar is the world's fourth-highest test run scorer with 10,688 runs after Brian Lara of the West Indies and Australians Allan Border and Steve Waugh.

The Indian team leaves for Bangladesh on Monday to play three limited-overs internationals, followed by two tests. The one-dayers will be played May 10, 12 and 15, while the tests will be held May 18 and 25.

If Tendulaker do not join

the series they will be beat like ICC World Cup Cricket 2007.