Bangladesh ace all-rounder Shakib al Hasan believes that reaching the World Cup final is difficult but not impossible, report agencies.
As the ICC Cricket World Cup 2019 comes to at the halfway mark, the battle to reach semifinal gets intense. Hosts England should be credited to make the battle more alluring, even though it cost them dearly.
Bangladesh needs to win their remaining two matches against India and Pakistan to make it to the semifinal. They can still go through with one win, If England win none of their matches, Sri Lanka win just one of their three matches and Pakistan win not more than two matches. Bangladesh have won three matches so far.
‘’It is difficult mathematically [to reach the final] but anything is possible in cricket,’’ said Shakib adding for them now the only way out is winning the remaining two matches respectively against India and Pakistan.
We have to win both our matches [group phase] and it difficult,’’ he said.
‘’But we have to believe that we can win both the matches because that is in our hand,’’ he said.
‘’We have to keep an eye on others result as well but for us the most important thing is to win the next two matches,’’ he said.
If Tigers beat Pakistan and India in their last two games, they end with 11 points and would want either of the three scenarios to happen.
Both England and Sri Lanka should lose at least one more match and finish with a maximum of ten points New Zealand lose to both Australia and England and finish on a lower NRR than Bangladesh AND India lose at least three of their remaining matches and end up with a lower or same NRR as Bangladesh
It is unlikely that Bangladesh will go through with one win and nine points, despite the mathematical possibility, because of their negative NRR and a high probability of other teams getting to ten points.
