I don't think our rise was purely due to WI's fall.. We did beat few higher ranked teams and playing against Zimbabwe does not improve our rankings.. We did beat England, New Zealand like teams which contributed towards our ranking. If we have one win against Autralia, we will be few points ahead of WI and we will hold on to that for some time...
The reality is, we are number 8-9 team. We do not have the players in the mix who can push us to the number 5 in the next 2 years unless all in a sudden a Shakib or Mashrafee pops up from somewhere... Yes, we can become number 6 team in the next 4 years if we do un-earth some fresh talents this year and have good coaching, facilities, infrastructure and planning in place.
For us to reach anything beyond 5.... its not likely. Its almost like thinking can Bangladesh become China like econonomy.. possible in theory but it will take few light years or India, Australia, South Africa, Sri Lanka, Pakistan to stop playing cricket!!
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