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Old May 17, 2003, 12:27 AM
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Default Re: The real question is, why has a team that showed such encouraging signs early on gone backwards

First of all, you have to see exactly when did the team started showing encouraging signs? It was only starting from the World Cup 1999 until the year 2000 or the year 2001 against Zimbabwe that Bangladesh showed signs of encouragement. But to come to that position, Bangladesh had to face through 1997, 1998 - when Bangladesh lost to Kenya most times. In 1998, Bangladesh lost to Northern Ireland in Commonwealth Games in Malaysia. In 1997, Bangladesh performed pretty poorly against New Zealand in New Zealand.

Now about the second part - Bangladesh did not go backwards as rapidly as you are saying. There were signs in the year 2001 of this going backwards. Bangladesh performed poorly in the Asian Test Championship 2001. Bangladesh was all out for 51 and 57 against different South African Invitational sides in South Africa in 2001. These were invisible signs that Bangladesh's performance was on its way down. But the good thing of the year 2001 was that when Bangladesh scored more than 200 runs (actually more than 250) against Zimbabwe consistently. And the 2 tours beside the Asian Test Championship were the tours of Zimbabwe. I think you will agree with me that Zimbabwe is a much weaker bowling side than batting. Also, the little difference between the 9th and the 10th test playing nations between Bangladesh and Zimbabwe had shown on the 2 tours. It was Bangladesh's good luck (or is it bad?) that the 2 tours against Zimbabwe were in the same year. It was also Bangladesh's good luck (again, was it good or bad luck for Bangladesh - now as we see things?) that Bangladesh's tour of Kenya in 2001 was postponed due to Kenyan players' conflict with their board.
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