About a batting coach!
I just don't get it. If Pilot, who is not a specialist batsman by any standard, can stay at the crease for almost 2 hours and play over 80 balls, is it wrong us fans to expect the at least one of the top order to try to do the same? This is not the first time that Pilot has had to bail the team in dire straits.
When SA scored 301 runs, the outcome of the game had already been written. The only question that remained was by what margin would BD lose. Any sensible and responsible batsman would opt to take time to settle down and then score between 4 and 5 runs an over. Is it too much to ask our batsmen to act sensibly and responsibly?
If the batsmen are to learn anything from the tour then they must stay at the crease. They must see the bigger picture. The tours should be seen as preperation for the World Cup, and if BD is to have any chance of wining any of the mathes then they must learn NOW.
What I find frustrating is not so much BD losing game after game as BD not learning anything from their tours. I could stand BD losing 100 games but what I can't stand is the BD batsmen not showing ANY kind of professionalism. Any BD batsman is well capable of scoring some decent runs against any test playing team if he shows some common sense.
I would have to agree with Tehsin bhai in recommending a shrink.
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