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Originally Posted by akabir77
one quick answer:
selectors have to give players enough time before they can start perform!!!
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well, i looked at the australlian team, their players batting average is 50+..
and most of them are 30+ years old!
Bangladesh is completely opposite, no/little experience whatsoever. using the australlian method, we should have players like Ehsanul Haque in the national team. but he isn't?
the truth is: the australian players learning curves begin at their home soil continue through to their "pura cup/domestic league" then english county cricket" then consistent success in england/australli/A tram combined brings them to national team.
so using this methodology you must say someone like Shahriar Nafees has done reasonably excellent scoring consistent 50+ against opposition of similar experience(Zimbabwe, Bermuda, Ireland) but failing against the likes of India, Sri Lanka, Pakistan
because Shahriar Nafees has not played in county cricket, nor has he consistenly faced tough bowling oppositions.
International arena is NOT the arena to learn, it is the arena to APPLY what you learned against quality bolwing attack.
the unsuccessful run of Bangladesh recently after
World Cup 2007 proves that how tough the cricketing world out there is: the best reason i will give you we have been reasonably succesful against what we call "minnows" is that for 5-8 years we have learned as a unit from getting thrashed by the likes of New Zealand, India, Pakistan, England, Australlia, Sri Lanka, West Indies quite consistently. and it also shows that international cricketing class is how much different from ICC tournament 1997 class...
Zimababwe political situation was a blessing in disguise for Bangladesh cricket is what furthur enabled our success as a unit in the world cup.
so, in conclusion, it is wishful thinking that we will beat any team such as Sri Lanka/India/Pakistan in the next Asia Cup. beating UAE convincingly is the only realistically speaking achievement we might see in the next month or so.
still,it never hurts to hope on Bangladesh cricket for "upset"
