[fwullah]

This is the first time ever that we will go on a tour on a particular country where we have gone earlier. I am talking about the Zimbabwe tour.

The last time when we were expecting to win a match or two, in Zimbabwe, the team management (at the time which included Trevor Chappell, Naimur Rahman and probably Imran Sarwar) started all this rubbish of playing Akram Khan and playing Aminul Islam only in tests. Akram Khan was given a last opportunity in Zimbabwe in which he eventually failed.

But 2 years later, during the 2003 World Cup, he was brought back after the very poor performance of all the new players of Bangladesh in place of injured Mashrafee Bin Murtoza for the sake of playing and winning in only one last match remaining (hope for beating) against Kenya.

So lets not start all those things all over again and start thinking about how we can beat Zimbabwe from now on. And for that purpose, we have a tough job on our hands - as an experiment basis, in addition - the extra advantage that we have in this case is that we have the exact opposition who were beaten by Zimbabwe on quite a number of occassions mostly at home and a few times (probably once) at away venues (for Zimbabwe).

So how many of you agree with me that we should not make any whole-sale changes to the current Bangladesh team?