Bangladesh national football team, who returned home on Saturday night from Tajikistan after a humiliating 5-0 defeat, had a closed door practice session yesterday at the Bangabandhu National Stadium ahead of another big encounter against Australia. The match will be held on November 17 and it kick off at 5:30pm. Australian football team finally coming with a special chartered flight today. They are scheduled to land at 6pm at the Shahjalal International Airport in the capital. However, the Bangladesh team’s head coach denied the media to talk with players as he did not even allow any reporters inside the ground during the practice. The demoralised Bangladesh are going to face the reigning Asian champions Australia, who won the home match 5-0 in Perth. Meanwhile, the Bangabandhu Stadium market was fully closed for the security reason at 6pm yesterday and it will be continued up to tomorrow (Tuesday) while the entrance of any public or private vehicles was prohibited inside the stadium complex. Sniffer dogs and bomb disposal units deployed in the stadium as part of ‘unprecedented’ security measures, an official of BFF said Sunday
Anyway, though the coach, who did not talk with the reporters yesterday but immediate after their arrival from Tajikistan on Saturday he made some excuses of the humiliation at the airport. Lopez when explained the reason of conceding five goals said that the chilly condition, playing ground (turf) and rain were the main grounds of conceding almost half a dozen goals. Lopez also said that Tajikistan is a high profile team and stronger side than us and there is a far difference of strength between Tajikistan and Bangladesh. But Tajikistan just escaped from a defeat in at the Bangabandhu National Stadium in Dhaka during their away match while Bangladesh had dominated the possession throughout 90 minutes game and also led up to 88 minute before conceding an odd goal two minutes before the final whistle to draw the match.
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Bangladesh batsmen yet again came up with a reckless batting show to prove that they are yet to learn the art of the T20 batting. In an otherwise a pretty flat surface, they couldn’t improvise them… 
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