[al Furqaan]

Ash, Hom, N Iqbal, almost every Sylhet batsman remain duds who's crossing north of 20 is rare these days. But there have still been some mega scores already and we're just 3 innings deep into the season. Excluding TIK (and bowlers like Gazi), since he hasn't played in 5 years (whoa!), we still have scores of 209, 181, 148, 120, Naeem has a couple of big tons, and there are a couple more I must be forgetting. Asif Ahmed has a near ton (88) and will probably score a ton or two this year, with one of them probably being decently big (like his 150 from last season). Anamul has yet to get into the act, but he scored 2 tons last year, plus a massive 193.

Is it better batting? Poorer bowling? Have we outsourced our curating to the BCCI?

The thing is that individual bowlers are still doing well (Enamul, Gazi, Saqlain, Shahadat(!), and Taskin. And of course Razzak Raj).

Is it the hope of landing one of the covetted new FC contracts? One third of the current NCL players, possibly more, will miss out on the 80 new contracts. Could this be motivating the batters to bat with some sense (those who have it) and the usual bowlers to keep bowling well?

I'd like to hear Sohel's take on this.