Bangladesh eye World Cup quarter-finals

DHAKA, Jan. 27 (NsNewsWire) — Bangladesh have set their sights on reaching the quarter-finals of next month’s World Cup in Australia and New Zealand, the team’s Sri Lankan coach said Thursday.

Chandika Hathurusinghe told journalists in Dhaka he was happy with the team’s preparations and hoped they would go “all the way”.

But he said he was “taking one game at a time” and would focus on qualifying for the quarter-finals stage of the six-week tournament, which begins on February 14, reports AFP.

Bangladesh have only once reached the second round in their four previous World Cups, when they ousted India from the group stage to qualify for the Super Eights in the West Indies in 2007.