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Originally Posted by Eshen
I think main mistake Bangladesh made was rushing into Test arena. It was a huge leap for us to get ODI status after ICC Trophy 97 (we were still getting our rears kicked by Kenya), we should have been happy with that. We had a good crop of cricketers such as Opee, Biddut, Rokon, Bashar, Pilot, Rafique, and later joined by Ashraful, Alok, Tushar, Rajin, etc. What we should have done was giving those guys a good exposure to FC cricket by participating in FC leagues abroad and playing against visiting FC teams at home (like Lanka team had done on regular basis for ten years or so before getting Test status). And may be then we should have applied for Test status sometime around 2007. Our impatience have destroyed older generation of cricketers. I hope the younger generations will do better.
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Even now we are making the mistake. What was the reasoning from cutting FC from 33 games to 22 games? For what is worth BCB should have expanded on the number of games. That could have been done easily. If club kormokorta ar so powerful then ...
totally abolish National league and give the clubs FC status and allow two teams from Chittagong, Khulna, Sylhet, Rajshahi, Barishal and Bogura. May be ask clubs to move facilities in lottery basis to outside of Dhaka and call their home.
BNS pitches cannot sustain the current load of cricket plus the intl matches. Other fields must be upgraded.