Bangladesh is hardly one of the big names in world cricket.
But even so they could give the Black Caps a good run for their money when they tour there next month.
Certainly the Bangladeshians won't be losing any sleep over the prospect of facing the New Zealand pace attack.
Methinks their top
order batsmen probably can't wait to lock horns with the likes of Ian Butler, Chris Martin or James Franklin.
Without wanting to demean them bowlers of their ilk are, at best, journeymen in test cricket circles.
Invariably they will take their wickets through sheer persistence rather than outright pace and on pitches likely to be more accomodating to the spinners they could be in for hard time.
It's a situation which again highlights just how badly the Blacks Cap miss Shane Bond as their number one strike bowler.
Bond had the pace and the accuracy to stir up the very best of batsmen around the world, and when he wasn't taking wickets himself he was setting things up nicely for his fellow bowlers.
Many times they picked up wickets through batsmen looking to take risks against them because of the problems they were having with Bond.
The news that Blacks Caps skipper Stephen Fleming will bat in the No.3 position in Bangladesh rather than open makes sense.
Fleming is a natural stroke maker who has always looked slightly uncomfortable as an opener in test cricket and batting at first drop should give him greater opportunity to demonstrate his talents.
Blacks Caps coach John Bracewell has indicated that Mark Richardson and Matthew Papps will open the innings with Fleming at three, followed Scott Styris at four and either Nathan Astle or Hamish Marshall at five. Then would come Jacob Oram at six.
To me the battle between Astle and Marshall is a no contest.
Astle's free-flowing style of batting virtually guarantees he won't always succeed but he can be spectacular when in full cry and is always well worth the risk in my view.
He gets my vote big time.
