bangladesh cricket team got test status in 2000.
bangladesh cricket team got test status in 2000.
when did bangladesh cricket team got test status?
2000
before bangladesh had even secured test status, cricket fans in the country took the game seriously; when the team lost an odi against kenya in march 1999, several hundred fans protested outside the offices of the bangladesh cricket board (bcb). on learning of bangladesh's promotion to test status, thousands of people celebrated on the streets. then prime minister sheikh hasin/ref> however, during the middle of this tour bangladesh was qualified for the [[2019 cricket world cup]] since they were at no. 7 of icc odi rankings by 30 september 2017 cut-off date.ref>a remarked that "i can't express my joy in words at this happiest hour of the nation". at the time cricket was the second-most popular sport in the country behind football. when bangladesh began its first test match on 10 november 2000 at bangabandhu national stadium in dhaka, the stadium was nearly full on the first day as around 40,000 people watched the team take on india. as the match partly overlapped with the festival of shab-e-barat, numbers attending declined as the match progressed. in 2011, bangladeshi politician saber hossain chowdhury opined that "in bangladesh cricket is not simply a game, it is a symbol of national unity", and in the words of ahm mostofa kamal, president of the bcb in 2011, "people of bangladesh take cricket religiously".
bangladesh national cricket team
deutrom had already sent a letter to the icc in 2009 stating his board's intention to apply for full membership – a potential pathway to test cricket – and to seek clarification on the process. former australian bowler jason gillespie said that if ireland got test status it "would be huge news in world cricket, and it would be a massive positive story for the world game". following ireland's victory over the west indies in the 2015 cricket world cup, former fast bowler michael holding said that the international cricket council should grant ireland test status immediately, saying "they need to be recognised now". the icc said in 2015 that ireland would be granted test status in 2019 should they win the 2015–17 icc intercontinental cup and beat the 10th ranked test nation in a four-match test series in 2018.
ireland cricket team