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Old October 23, 2003, 12:33 PM
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Default Mushfique and Sujon - the all-rounders

We know that Rafique is not an all-rounder, at least not the all-rounder that we hope him to be, he is just a good enough batsman against spin bowling on good batting tracks, in short, he is a hitter.

We also have quite a few hitters like him - Mashrafee is one example. We have also seen Sharif who bats with a straight bat, and has the potential to be an all-rounder, but so far, he too, is a specialist bowler.

But what I want to put the attention on, is Sujon and Mushfique. You see, I believe that Mushfique is actually a batting all-rounder and just tries to bowl a good line and length.

On the other hand, Sujon is my best-bowling all-rounder - by Bangladeshi standards. I don't know if you have observed (from the Cricinfo live scorecard) how many times Sujon gave catches at very early in a batsman's innings, but the fielders just could not hang on to the catches.

There was once a time when Hasibul Hussain used to face this kind of situation - fielders used to drop catches off his bowling, quite frequently.

We have now seen Mushfique's batting, and bowling - by the way, Mushfique could not swing the ball as much as Sujon did, but the only difference between Sujon's not getting a wicket and Mushfique's getting 2 wickets is that Sujon was not consistent enough in his bowling to put the balls at the right places at the right length which Mushfique could do.

Since Sujon's captancy, he is under pressure to perform, since he was never a part of the Bangladesh test team. And the pressure of captancy had made him to concentrate less on his batting and also in his bowling. Also, he is getting old, and its time to give his spot to the young all-rounder Mushfique, as soon as we can find a suitable replacement for Sujon, the captain.

Anyway, what I would like to know is, how many of you agree with me of the following:-
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