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Old May 11, 2007, 03:22 PM
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Omar needs to think in singles
Sidharth Monga at Mirpur
May 11, 2007

In the current Bangladesh one-day team Javed Omar is a misfit. At 30 he is old. With a strike rate of 52.22, he is a Dhaka cycle-rickshaw to Tamim Iqbal's Chittagong train. So contrasting are the styles of this opening combination one wonders if Tamim, frustrated by seeing Omar just defending from the other end, throws his wicket away.

Omar has often been criticised for being too slow. But he also knows the state of his team which has struggled for good opening stands. "Too often we lose four to five wickets in the first 10-15 overs and that's game over right there," Omar says, "like yesterday, we saw off the new ball without losing a wicket, and scored a big total." That in fact has rarely happened for Bangladesh. And that exactly is Omar's brief when he goes in to bat - to ensure there are no quick wickets at the top.
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