Ok, good thread though some people clearly are not able to follow instructions and still went off into rant mode.
My দুই আনা:
1) Siddons: if you have decided that tough love is the way you are going to do it then temper it. Not everyone responds to tough love; gradually work up to it. Also please stop taking so much vacations. You should be spending this time going to dinner with Ashraful and plotting up new things for the team.
2) Ashraful: Captain like you want to bat - instinctively and no holds barred. Do NOT let your batting impact your instincts as a captain. Also, spend more time doing homework on your opponents. Figure out what opponent batter's favorite shots are - and then put them under pressure on them. Target the top bowlers of the opposition and find out what gets them out of rhythm (e.g. for an impatient person like Afridi, be V-E-R-Y deliberate in taking strike, in walking away in between balls, or gardening, etc., for someone like Asif who has a bit of a mongrel in him, come down the wicket a few times to get him all riled up and move away from the length at which he's lethal). Now the bowling stuff - apply that to your batting too.
3) Aftab - play straight for a bit dude
4) Tamim - watch videos of Lara batting. You obviously have the gift of timing. That's আল্লাহর দান. Now use it to learn how to dab the annoying singles. Heck watch Ashraful do it - he's pretty good at it.
More to come later ...
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