[Purbasha T]

Review of today's wickets:

1.Imrul: Unlucky, though he should be more dominant on his legs but nonetheless it wasn't out; so we can't complain.

2 Tamim: Ball jagged back, no feet movement, no shot adjustment despite having seen the ball fall on an awkward length.

3. Junaid: Again, should be more dominant on his legs. Also a bit jittery at the beginning, which is okay but as an international player playing internation cricket, we expect better show in adjusting to diff situations.

4. Rokibul: Tried the same sort of shots several times, timed not a single one. Why go for a shot which you're not doing good at the moment. Int. match isn't a place for you to hone your shots especially not when you're 3 down. Play shots which you're comfortable with.

5. Ash: Was looking so good with some of those shots he had played (despite some edginess), as if that fastest fifty-wala match against India in the same ground came back. Was getting to his fifty nicely but suddenly what the heck, 4 down with 44 runs on the boards; and you're going for a SIX? Utmost outrageous, you expect better character and personality form a 25 year old guy who has been playing int. cricket consitantly for around 9-10 years.

6. Shakib: Played okay. But kept flirting around outside off-stump. That particular delivery of Zaheer swang away too much, but even if it had bene hit for four, that shot isn't supposed to be tried in the first place.

7. Mushy: No complaints. it was a good ball, came back in and kept a bit low as well.

8. Shahadat: First of all, you're a tailender. Second of all, does reaching the tail means the innings has to finish within next couple of overs? Why do you need to think that just coz it's 7-8 wicket down it's time to get all out and score some quick runs. If it was ODI, I would've understood; but you don't go score runs yourself as a tailender, you give as much strike as you can to the guy who is more capable of scoring runs. Let it be a 50 runs partnership without a single boundary, but that's better than 2 4s in a row and them bamm, OUT!

10 and 11: Would've told them the same thing as above for what they did the previous match, but this time around they listened to it and knew their roles. Though both deliveries they got out to could've left alone and defended in front of stumps respectively. But well, as tailenders, they did their part.

Mah Man is My Man..whaaddaaplaayerrr!!! Just hope no brain-boom happens to him any soon, keep going with the same vain Riyad, you'll do well.