Bangladesh order probe into Cricket World Cup flop

A threeperson committee including former captain Akram Khan will look into Bangladeshs disappointing ICC World Cup 2023 campaign the countrys cricket board said on Wednesday Bangladesh won two matches and lost seven at the oneday tournament in India in OctoberNovember finishing eighth out of 10 teams The committee will scrutinise the factors contributing to the teams underperformance the Bangladesh Cricket Board said It was Bangladeshs lowest number of wins at a World Cup since 2003 when they failed to win a game They won three matches in each of the next four World Cups in 2007 2011 2015 and 2019 Expectations had been high in Bangladesh especially after they finished third in the qualifying tournament the ICC Super League behind New Zealand and England They started the ICC World Cup 2023 with a win over Afghanistan before six consecutive losses took them out of contention for the race for the semifinals Australia beat hosts India in the ICC World Cup 2023 finalMeanwhile Kane Williamson struck a defiant century Wednesday but was unable to put New Zealand in control in the first Test against Bangladesh in Sylhet The visitors reached 2668 at stumps on the second day still trailing Bangladesh by 44 runs in the first inningsAlso Read When obsession knows no boundsWilliamson hit 104 off 205 balls in his 29th Test century with 11 fours before Taijul Islam broke through his defence to bowl out the righthander Taijul was the pick of the Bangladesh bowlers with 489 while Mehidy Hasan Miraz Nayeem Hasan Shoriful Islam and Mominul Haque claimed one wicket apiece Glenn Phillips scored 42 runs to boost Williamson in their 78run sixthwicket partnership which dug the visitors out of a hole after they lost the top half of their batting order for 175 runs Occasional leftarm spinner Mominul forced Phillips to give a catch at slip ending their partnership Williamson took a single off Nayeem to complete his hundred off 189 balls drawing him level with Don Bradman and Virat Kohli in terms of Test centuries Taijul redeemed himself for dropping Williamson at midwicket on 63 by taking the wicket of the former New Zealand captain and Ish Sodhi 0 in successive overs Daryl Mitchell earlier rode his luck to reach 41 before he was stumped by Nurul Hasan off Taijuls bowlingAlso ReadThis too shall passMitchell who put on 66 runs with Williamson for the fourth wicket had nicked pacer Shoriful while batting on four But Bangladesh did not review the caughtbehind appeal which was turned down by the onfield umpire New Zealand bowled out Bangladesh for 310 on the first ball of the morning when Tim Southee trapped last man Shoriful legbefore for 13 The Black Caps then got off to a fast start the first three balls yielding 10 runs Bangladeshs spinners slowly took control to check the initial batting surge Taijul dismissed Tom Latham for 21 Nayeem taking the catch at fine leg Fellow opener Devon Conway fell to offspinner Mehidy two overs later after making 12 Debutant Shahadat Hossain took a brilliant onehanded catch diving to his right at silly point after an inside edge hit Conways pad and popped up to the fielder Shoriful dismissed Henry Nicholls for 19 after lunch to leave New Zealand struggling at 983With agency inputs