The sad thing for us is that we have to keep going back to the seniors for performances with the bat. The juniors now have had plenty of time to perform and cement their position as openers and as no. 7. Unfortunately we couldnt find a single replacement over all this time and we are now still going with a rookie opener and a 37 yr old no. 7.
On the other hand our bowlers are doing a fantastic job for many years now. I am confident if we score anything above par for the ground, our bowlers will put up a strong fight to defend it, as they have done, in the recent past.
If we rely on seniors to win us knockout/crunch games, it won't happen because they simply have too much mental baggage (especially from losing close matches to India). 3-4 of the young guys like Shanto, Shoriful, Miraz needs to have a stellar tournament alongside shak, mushy and ryad to take us over the line and go far in this WC.
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