When one player is to be chosen as the best cricketer, he is assessed in his specialized field of either batting or bowling (or could be all-rounder as SA's Kallis or England's Freddie) and my belief is, Rafiq fits in more as the best cricketer since his standard as a bowler with respective to international perspective in test cricket (ultimate area to judge/recognize a team's standard) stands taller than Bashar's/Ash's/S.Nafees's as batsman (nothing personal, Bashar is my favorite and I also like Talented Mr. Inconsistent Ash and the new sensation Nafees!)! It was Rafiq's long spell of relentless bowling that saw falling of good number of wickets in test cricket where it greatly helped Bangladesh in removing the blemish of tooth-less bowling in test cricket by making the International cricket arena (and also us) start believing that we could also scalp 10 wickets of the Giants within an innings (of course barring the 2nd test against Australia)!!
Zaheed
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