Bangladesh cricket team left here for England yesterday, reiterating that they have targeted defending champions India to fulfil their dream of making the Super Eights of the ICC World Twenty20.Banking on their batting depth, the Tigers believe that it is not an impossible task to beat high-flying India as it's a T20 game, so that there will be no need to wait for the second group match against Ireland."It's a Twenty20 game where you can get knocked out anytime. But realistically we should be in the Super Eights. We can even make it to the semifinals because nothing is impossible in this format of the game. We will definitely try against India before the Ireland game," said Bangladesh coach Jamie Siddons while talking with the reporters at the Zia International Airport.The Australian pointed out his side's batting depth to make a mark in the second version of the tournament."We have batting depth in the team. Just look, Mushi [Mushfiqur Rahim] is batting at number six and he is followed by Riyad [Mahmudullah] and Mash [Mashrafe Bin Mortaza] and this is very important," he added.Captain Mohammad Ashraful, who along with his deputy Mashrafe, leaves today to join the team in England and believes that nothing is impossible in Twenty20 cricket."The beauty of the T20 format is that you can win the match against India and lose a game against Ireland. It's always risky to tag someone favourites or minnows in this format of the game. We can even make it to the last four if we can beat India in the first game," said Ashraful, who returned home on Friday after a fruitless IPL trip in South Africa.The Bangladesh skipper said that they might have lacked match practice before the World Cup because of one-match appearance in the IPL, but informed that they had been very much in practice."It was frustrating not to play too many matches there [in the IPL], but I did have a very good time as it gave me the opportunity to come across so many world stars. I learnt many things from this trip which I believe would be very helpful for me," he said.Bangladesh will definitely be looking to number one all-rounder Shakib Al Hasan to make their dream come true as the young man already made him a key performer for the Tigers."In Twenty20 game, any side can win the match. We have nothing to lose. The June 6 match [against India] may be ours if we can put up our best performance," said a confident Shakib before departure.He was however not ready to focus on the past success. "We upset India in the 2007 World Cup but in a one-day match. This time we will play in a totally different format. We have to perform to our best if we want to beat the inform team," he added.Bangladesh, who have been pitted in Group A along with India and Ireland, will be based in Wormsley until the end of this month. Bangladesh have additional practice matches lined up against New Zealand at Wormsley on May 26 and against the Netherlands on May 28. They then face Scotland on May 29.Their official practice games are against Australia on June 1 and Sri Lanka the next day at Nottingham.
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