Al Shahriar is impatient and does not have the temperament at all. He is also so badly out of form that when he tries to get away from the immaculate line and length of Pollock and Ntini, he flies a catch at mid on while he was actually trying to hit the bowler over the back of his head. Ehsanul Haque and Mohammad Ashraful did not follow Al Shahriar for their impatience. Both of them also did not play in South Africa against South Africa before.

What Ashraful does is that he tries to push at a ball that he really should have left alone. A common technical weakness for Ashraful, but that was enough to take his wicket.

Ehsanul Haque was leaving almost every ball that faced outside the off stump, only he could not see a slower ball out of Pollock's hand and perished may be trying to hit it over the top or may be just trying to chip it in the air somewhere behind the bowler. And so he was out.

Sanwar Hossain and Ehsanul Haque - both are older players and seemed more matured, but only until they were batting. Sanwar tried to guide a ball towards 3rd man area or whatever, but he actually played away from his body - yet another technical flaw, which went flying to a fielder behind of the wicket.

Alok Kapali has seldom scored an usual 20 to 30 runs if promoted up the batting order, which he did today once again when he came to bat at number five, instead of his normal batting position at six. He always has this weakness against a ball that is outside the off stump and perished just like Sanwar trying to play a shot away from the body.

Tushar Imran is usually a free strokemaker, but he was kept patient for a while as all the wickets were falling at the other end while he watched, also as captain Khaled Mashud came into partner him, but he went out the same way as he usually does - an edge at gully while trying to play a scoring shot. And to think that he has this talent of finding out the gaps between fielders - a waste of his batting talent. Also, it gets to show just why he has been getting out lately after scoring a few 10 runs or so.

Khaled Mashud, the most experienced player in the side, once again is afraid to come up the order in place of a specialist middle order batsman, and becomes the top scorer for Bangladesh when everything but the pride is in stake. And as always when the pressure is not to win a match, only to score some runs without looking at the number of overs left, it suits Khaled Mashud very well.

Khaled Mahmud, another experienced player, hangs around for a while when the captain is at the crease, but when the 9th wicket fell, and it was only a matter of time that Bangladesh will go all out, he tries to poke at a bouncy ball and gets out as the last man. Really, with nothing to lose, what Khaled Mahmud could actually do was to at least play out as many deliveries or as many overs that he could face. But he is not the captain, is he? So why should he take the responsibility of getting the Bangladesh total a little higher or a little longer than it was?

The sooner our new ball bowlers - Monjurul Islam and Talha Jubair will know that bowling alone cannot earn them their places in the side, the better for Bangladesh. And against the likes of South Africa, Monjurul's bowling is not going to be enough, especially after watching them bowl so wonderfully against the West Indies.

I guess Talha Jubair has every right to be so wreckless while batting as well as bowling. He should not even be here if our present and former captains as well as the board had been more careful about the pacers who are a bit older than Jubair like Mashrafee Bin Murtoza, Mohammad Sharif, Tareq Aziz Khan and the rest of the lot.

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