fwullah
August 16, 2004, 11:54 PM
Read this first (http://news.bbc.co.uk/sport1/hi/cricket/3569612.stm)
When Bangladesh qualified for the world cup and then brought 2 victories for Bangladesh during world cup 1999, there were some advertisements of some of the Bangladeshi players, namely Bulbul (Milo) and Durjoy (Coca Cola) as far as I can remember.
However, even then, the popularity of our local entertainment stars like Suborna Mostafa, Shomee Kaisar, Bipasha Hayath did not fall down.
Among the current players, only one advertisement had a 'mimic' or a 'look-a-like' of Habibul Bashar, but it was not really him.
Those of us who watch cricket passionately, and those of us who watch Bangladesh cricket not so passionately, but do watch some of the matches - the popularity of certain individual players is sometimes on the rise and sometimes not.
Even if you don't consider advertisement as a measurement for popularity of the players, if you go and ask somebody in the general public about who his favorite player is, you'd see he'd name Akram Khan or Aminul Islam, and if that somebody had watched even a few matches in the last 4 years, then may be he'd say Habibul Bashar.
These are the things that our current national players are missing.
When Bangladesh qualified for the world cup and then brought 2 victories for Bangladesh during world cup 1999, there were some advertisements of some of the Bangladeshi players, namely Bulbul (Milo) and Durjoy (Coca Cola) as far as I can remember.
However, even then, the popularity of our local entertainment stars like Suborna Mostafa, Shomee Kaisar, Bipasha Hayath did not fall down.
Among the current players, only one advertisement had a 'mimic' or a 'look-a-like' of Habibul Bashar, but it was not really him.
Those of us who watch cricket passionately, and those of us who watch Bangladesh cricket not so passionately, but do watch some of the matches - the popularity of certain individual players is sometimes on the rise and sometimes not.
Even if you don't consider advertisement as a measurement for popularity of the players, if you go and ask somebody in the general public about who his favorite player is, you'd see he'd name Akram Khan or Aminul Islam, and if that somebody had watched even a few matches in the last 4 years, then may be he'd say Habibul Bashar.
These are the things that our current national players are missing.