Green: Quarter-Finals/Super Six/Super 8 Bronze: Semifinals Silver: Runner Up Gold: Champions Bangladesh for the first time participated in Cricket World Cup in this edition as an associate member and were placed in the Group B. Bangladesh played their first ever World cup match against New Zealand at County Ground in Chelmsford and they eventually lost the match by 6 wickets being bundled out for just mere 116 runs in first innings.
But in their very next match they stunned the cricket world by defeating Pakistan, the Champion of 1992 Cricket World Cup by 62 runs courtesy of good batting efforts of Akram Khan, Shahriar Hossain and a match winning bowling effort by Khaled Mahmud.
Bangladesh were placed in Group B with Sri Lanka, Kenya, New Zealand, South Africa, West Indies and Canada.
Though Canada could only manage 180 losing all wickets, Bangladesh had worse performance, being bundled out for just 120 and lost the match by 60 runs.
This time Bangladesh squad were much more balanced with experienced guys Habibul Bashar, Abdur Razzak, Aftab Ahmed, Javed Omar, Mashrafe Mortaza, Mohammad Ashraful, Mohammad Rafique and youngsters like Shakib Al Hasan, Mushfiqur Rahim, Tamim Iqbal.
In reply Bangladesh reached the target with 9 balls to spare courtesy of the fifties of three youngsters Shakib Al Hasan, Mushfiqur Rahim and Tamim Iqbal.
Coach: Dav Whatmore This World Cup should have been so memorable to Bangladesh having the advantage of playing their all matches on home soil being the co-host along with India and Sri Lanka and having the much more balanced and experienced guys like Shakib Al Hasan, the skipper, Tamim Iqbal, Mushfiqur Rahim, Mahmudullah, Shahriar Nafees, Mohammad Ashraful and Abdur Razzak, but they failed to come up with the expectations.
In reply, Bangladesh started off rapidly in their chase, getting 51 runs in the first five overs; but soon, their top order got out but and the run-rate slowed after that and they were not in the hunt, and at the end they got to 283/9 without challenging the Indian total.
This win also accounted as One of their Greatest Victories of World Cup history[22][23] In the next match against Netherlands, Bangladesh reached the target of 161 runs so comfortably losing only 4 wickets with the courtesy of Imrul Kayes' fine half century and the tight bowling of Abdur Razzak in the first innings.
Thus Bangladesh made record of winning all matches against the participating European teams (Ireland, England, Netherlands) in this World Cup.
[25][26] Coach: Jamie Siddons Bangladesh team joined the World Cup campaign to Australasia with a balanced team of Experienced players like Mashrafe Mortaza, the skipper, Shakib Al Hasan, Mushfiqur Rahim, Mahmudullah, Tamim Iqbal, Rubel Hossain, Shafiul Islam and youngsters like Soumya Sarkar, Sabbir Rahman and Taskin Ahmed.
In their first group match Bangladesh pipped Afghanistan, appearing in the World Cup for the first time, comprehensively by 105 runs with the courtesy of Shakib Al Hasan and Mushfiqur Rahim's half-century and a good spell of the skipper Mortaza.
[30] In their fourth group match, Bangladesh made history chasing 319 runs as it was their highest ODI run-chase and it was also the Second highest run-chase in Cricket World Cup history[33] Batting first, Scotland posted 318 runs on board in terms of 8 wickets with the courtesy of Scotland's first World Cup century scored by Kyle Coetzer (156) and some handy knocks from middle order.
But Bangladesh did not make any mistake later and they reached the target with 11 balls to spare with the help of 50s from Mahmudullah, Shakib Al Hasan, Mushfiqur Rahim and a 42* from Sabbir Rahman.
Mushfiqur also joined the party with a quick-fire 89 and Bangladesh posted a total of 275 runs in 50 overs with the loss of 7 wickets.
[38] Bangladesh faced India in their first-ever Knockout stage appearance in World Cup history.
India, batting first, posted 302 runs in 50 overs losing 6 wickets with the help of a fine century by Rohit Sharma (137) and a sixty-odds from Suresh Raina.
[41] The umpires received widespread criticism after some controversial decision-making, calling a low full-toss delivery a no-ball, bowled by Rubel Hossain and Rohit Sharma who was on 90* then, was caught at deep mid-wicket.
[44] Coach: Chandika Hathurusinghe 1 On 23 February, Al-Amin Hossain was sent home from the tournament after breaking a team curfew.
[51] In the match Shakib Al Hasan became the quickest all-rounder to score 5,000 runs and pick up 250 wickets in ODI.
[52] In their second match against New Zealand Bangladesh posted an average score of 244 but they lost the thriller by 2 wickets for a few mistakes on the field.
In reply with the help of Mushfiqur Rahim's unbeaten 102 Bangladesh could manage their highest total in ODI, 333 runs in their 50 overs losing 8 wickets but that was not enough to win the match.
In the match Shakib Al Hasan became first ever cricketer to score 500+ runs and picked up 10+ wickets in a single World Cup.
Shakib Al Hasan (Ban) equalled Sachin Tendulkar's record of making the most 50+ scores in a single World Cup tournament (7).
But Shakib Al Hasan probably had his best form in his life and he also made his position in the World Cup XI.
Having defeated Afghanistan in both their previous World Cup meetings, Bangladesh put them to bat after winning the toss.
Hashmatullah Shahidi (18) and Rahmanullah Gurbaz's dismissals when Afghanistan were at 112/2, led to a collapse of their middle and lower order, before the team was all out 44 runs after.With the ball, Afghanistan reduced Bangladesh to 27/2 and missed two catching opportunities of Mehidy Hasan, who made the best of it by putting on 97 runs with Nazmul Hossain Shanto for the third wicket.The partnership helped Bangladesh to start the tournament with a win by 6 wickets.
Lookie Ferguson took a 3/49 spell and Trent Boult become the fastest New Zealand to claim 200 wickets, in terms of matches (107).
[80] Australia won the match by 8 wickets in hand and Bangladesh ended their world cup run with 2 wins and 7 losses.
[81] Bangladesh qualified for the 2025 Champions Trophy but the team's terrible campaign made a lot of fans expectation murdered.