This is actually a very unfortunate situation for both Soumya and Sabbir. They are LOI specialists, should have been focusing on that format at this stage of their careers. Now their longer format failures may shake their confidence badly when they play LOIs too.
Hathuru has a big role to play in this fiasco, specially how he has been messing with Momin for last few years and created a big hole in our Test batting order. But root of the problem is not him, but Papon - for his total failure to negotiate with other boards for A-team tours last few years. Guys like Momin, SN, Naeem have been doing what was necessary for them to find their way back in the consideration for the Test team - scoring tons of runs in domestics. What we needed next was A-team tours to assess how ready they are to return to international arena. Since that has not happened, we left it for Hathuru to gamble on whoever he wants.
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