Originally Posted by
horizon
So the cycle is like this -
1) Ex cricketer/Administrator/Journalist/Commentator of country X says something that fans don't like.
2) Fans shout at some of the low points of country X.
- If India, it's their overseas performance, if England that they failed to win major tourneys in 700 years, if SA they are chokers, if Pakistan then their inability to host matches ... etc etc (making the list shorter) or even the quality of English of the criticism
- And the high points are never compared
, e.g WC wins for India, being WC finalists for England and beating SA in SA/T-20 world cup SF qualification every-time for Pakistan for example.
- Overlook the words of encouragement from many others from the same country X, who are probably tired by now.
3) Fans cushion the BD players, who see a little output in playing better since their performance has little impact on their popularity.
4) Bangladesh performs bad in yet another World level tournament.
5) Back to (1).
Well, in this scale, criticism should be eliminated from the World, if everyone has to include their own criticism as a disclaimer along with the criticism of others.
If I come up with a ranking of teams, Bangladesh ranks will be like this -
In ICC ODI WC : 1999 - 9th, 2003 - 13th, 2007 - 7th, 2011 - 9th
In T20 WC : 2007 - 8th, 2009 - 10th, 2010 - 10th, 2012 - 10th
In ICC U-19 WC : 1998 - 9th, 2000 - 10th, 2002 - 12th, 2004 - 9th, 2006 - 5th, 2008 - 7th, 2010 - 9th, 2012 - 7th, 2014 - 9th.
That's what people/fans/journalists see all over the world.