What makes a team crippled?
1. When you have opener who may knows how to stay in the wicket, but don't know how to rotate and take 1s and 2s. Example: Gullu
2. When a team depends on off form super's past glories, but not present form. Example: SN, Bashar
3. When a team depends on too many boom-boom hit-or-miss Afridi type of inconsistent players. Example: Ash, Aftab, Tamim
4. When you team depends on 5 bowlers (out of which is 6th bowler at best). You pretty much all the options while fielding
5. When you team players doesn't knows the maths: i.e. 1+1+1+1 makes 4. Therefore if you can squeeze in 1s, you don't need to score 4s all the time to keep the score running
6. When you team doesn't understand that: intelligent running betweeen the wicket creates presure to the opponent, where as stupid runouts pretty much take all the oxygen out of the team. Example: When they hit a single to the boundary, if they take quick single (rather than lazy single) it creates some pressure to the fielder. the other example of stupid runn-out Bashar's runnout.
7. If the Captain fails to contribute, he pretty much loose any leverage to lead the team.
8. If the team's statagey is just to block 10-15 overs and nothing else. Thats a loosing mentality. Thats makes the team more dependable to those hit-or-miss boom boom players and later batsman needs to be more reckless to make up the runs. It may be good for players like Aftab/Ash to show their heroics once in a while, its not good for younger players like Sakib and Co who are developing a a steady contributers.
9. When lower end batsmans doesn't understand their role based on team's need. Against ENG, only Mashrafee adjusted and contributed whereas the others failed to support Sakib
10. When team think-tank thinks the that the best way to revive a off-form batsmans is to bump up his batting order (rather than bump-down).
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