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Asad
There was no heated argument. At least not on my part. Must have missed it as I went to bed after lunch. Let me put it this way, I am pleasantly surprised with Mehrab and Mushy ( not that surprised ) and the way they batted. Test cricket is not all about stonewalling and scoreboard certainly is in play. I don't believe that top four can bat the way they did last night and expect it to work. It almost didn't. All of the players involved that sacrificed their scoring intent ended up not contributing much to the team score. Its the duo of Mehrab and Mushy, who counter attacked, and by that I mean, who showed positive intent, are smiling right now. But, this won't happen all the time. Sometimes you have to score to survive. Leave good balls but punish anything that is bad. Stray on the legs, punish!
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i know, but it made the post more colorful.
but i agree, i am all for playing positive cricket which means playing each ball according to its individual merit, which is exactly what junior and mushy did.
however, i also feel its important for our batsman to learn the art of staying glued to the crease...runs will come as ATMR has stated. maybe not rajin, but had tamim not played that ridiculous shot, he could begin to score easily as the bowlers tired.
bottom line is, we have to play to our capabilities and strenghts - no matter how un-exciting it might be. if you don't have any quality pace bowlers, you simply cannot put in anwar hossain, tapash, and mushfiqur rahman babu into your attack just because fast bowling is more exciting.
we have certain batting limitiations and we have to play within that...our approach was mainly damage control in the first half of the day, but it was positive cricket in the latter half as the approach paid of.
i really hope we can reach 350 tomorrow, but i'll be pleased with anything close to 300.