If you can put them under pressure, Pakistan can always find a way to beat themselves.
Look at the St Johns Test in the Carribean for the script - all the batsmen get some runs, you put 400-ish on the board, then you put them under pressure from tight, accurate bowling.
Rafique's a world-class slow left armer, and then there's The Kid ... fast bowling's not too bad with Masrafee and Baiysa (did I ever tell you about when Colin Miller opened the bowling for Australia ?).
Basically, if everyone does their job, then Bangladesh can win.
Get to 10. Then get to 20. Then get 40. Then 50, then go on and make a hundred. Then make it a big hundred.
Make sure you have a plan, and bowl to it. Line and length, move it away, drift it in.
Take catches, back up behind the stumps, throw accurately and fast.
And never, ever give up.
Ian Whitchurch
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