Bangladesh blames faulty umpiring for India’s win in QF 2015 CWC

#INDvsBAN #CWC15 #sheikhhasina #mustafakamal Bangladesh PM Sheikh Hasina says her country lost the QF 2015 CWC match to India due to faulty umpiring that denied her country the honors as reported in timesofindia.indiatimes.com dated 21 March 2015.
By her statements, it appears that she is endorsing ICC's Bangladeshi president Mustafa Kamal's remarks – he had said that India had won the World Cup quarterfinal against Bangladesh because of umpiring decisions that went against Bangladesh.
Mustafa Kamal has threatened to quit over the umpiring and suggested that the match appeared to have been fixed. It seems he had told Bangladeshi reporters in Melbourne after the match at the MCG that he would raise the issue at the ICC's next meeting. His contention was that the decisions of the umpires seemed to have been "pre-arranged". He brought out two major decisions in support of his accusations.
One of these was of Rohit Sharma who was caught at deep mid-wicket off the bowling of Rubel Hossain when he was on 90. Since the umpires Aleem Dar of Pakistan and Ian Gould of England signalled it as a no-ball, the batsman remained at the crease to finally score 137. In the opinion of Mustafa, the ball appeared to be a legitimate waist-high delivery and not a no-ball.
Second decision was at the dismissal of star batsman Mohammad Mahmudullah who was caught close to the boundary rope.

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Ireland beats West Indies to cause major upset in 2015 Cricket World Cup

#irelandcricket #cricketworldcup #CWC15 It has been termed as a major upset in the 2015 Cricket World Cup when Ireland beat two times world champions West Indies. In the opinion of Ireland captain Will Porterfield, the victory was no fluke and that his players are determined to win every game at the World Cup as reported in theguardian.com dated 16 February 2015.
Yes, Ireland is a newcomer to the game having played against Pakistan and Bangladesh in their first tournament appearance in 2007. Subsequently, they had a memorable against England in India in the 2011 world cup. Hence, Ireland captain Will Porterfield, a Warwickshire professional insists that the world should not view the win against West Indies as an upset.
He has also made it clear that he and his team want to go into the UAE game to win and keep picking up two points in every game.
In the West Indies game, which was the opening match of their Pool B encounter, Ireland beat West Indies by four wickets in Nelson. They did it with 25 balls to spare while chasing down the West Indies score of 304 for seven. Paul Stirling, Ed Joyce and Niall O’Brien scored half centuries to reach the objective. Incidentally, the margin would have been more impressive because, at one point of time, Ireland were 273 for two from where they slipped to 291-6 and sending pulses racing. But, in the end, it was victory.
Ireland is in Pool B with India and all eyes would be on that match scheduled for 10th of March at Hamilton.