Statistics can be extremely misleading. I think what is more relevant is the TEAM standings in world cricket as it is the TEAM (and not such and such a player) that wins matches - as we saw with the late order batsmen not being able to finish off the match against Pakistan in game one of the Asia Cup.
In ODIs BD are 9th, Test matches 9th and in T20 not even ranked (and behind Ireland, Zimbabwe and Afghanistan).
BD play WI, Zimbabwe, Pak and NZ, far more than they do the top teams of Eng, Ind, Aus, SA or SL. You would expect the BD individual players' stats to be way better than those of teams who play the top 4 sides more often.
I personally don't think the players look too hard at the statistics anyway. I am not sure anything proves how good players are unless they play against all the teams, under all conditions and away as well as home regularly.
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