[WarWolf]

Though Bangladesh has been struggling since their birth in test cricket, they always perform worst when they have to face Srilankans. Their performance is getting worse against them day by day. One of the possible reasons for this is the stengthened bowling attack in Srilankan part. When bangladesh came to test arena there were only two good bowlers in Srilankan side; Murali and Vaas. Now their bowling is much better with inclusion of Fernando, Malinga and Mahroof. They are smart enough to find the problems in the opponent batting and skilled enough to capitalize it.


Coming back to main topic, Bangladeshi batsmen has exibited some real technical flaws in the current series against Srilanka. Srilankan bowling line up is smart enough to work on those weak points.

All the left handed batsmen in Bangladesh side has problems with feet movement. None of them gets close to the ball while playing shots. While most of the right handed batsmen are clueless when they encounter a good length or three-quarter ball swinging around the off-stamp.

Shahriar Nafees has severe problem with his feet movement which makes him a good candidate for LBW. We have seen him getting LBW a lot of times recently. He often flashes the ball outside the off stamp without getting towards the line of the ball and gets himself out to the keeper or slip cordon. Shakib Al Hasan, Meherab hossain Junior and Tamim Iqbal - these left handed batsmen also has the same problem with feet movement. We have seen Mehrab getting bowled twice in his debut test (the current test) just because lack of feet movement. Our coaches need to work with this problem otherwise we will see them getting out in the same fashion again and again.

Most right handed batsmen have problems with the swinging ball out side the off stamp. They can’t resist themselves from chasing the ball either in defensive or attacking manner and as a result ending their promising innings pathetically. Some of them have problems with incoming swinging fuller deliveries. Javed Omar, Nafis Iqbal, Habibul Bashal, Khaled Masud and some other right handed players get LBW often just for this reason. Mushfiq Rahim is a good young player; but he has problems to negotiate fast fuller deliveries well directed to the stamps.


We have been watching these batsmen getting out in the same fashion repeatedly. I wonder why they can't learn from their mistakes! May be they are not good enough to learn; though I don't believe this reason. I have a feeling that they don't practice as much as they needed to do in the nets against quality bowlers and bowling machine. And the single biggest reason that is liable here is the lack of experience of playing handsome amount of quality first class matches.