[Sohel]

Anyone who understands cricket and has actually witnessed the appalling quality of NCL matches over a period of time, knows that the NCL isn't and has never been a good place to develop a talented young player like Bijauy or current international stalwarts like Shakib, Tamim, Mashrafe, Mushfiq, Riyad or Nasir before him. Fact is, the NCL and to a lesser extent the DPL is woefully inadequate to prepare anyone for the highest level. EXTENSIVE A Team and Academy cricket would surely do a far better job but our A and Academy sides are often haphazardly assembled together by lazy and often clueless national selectors susceptible to lobbying, nepotism and shallow perception, and don't play enough for that to happen.

The National team is always full of dead weight that lose us matches at the highest level. That weight needs to be removed by young players with genuine ability until our domestic set up improves dramatically, AND rightly selected A and Academy Teams play enough cricket around the year to develop players capable of stepping into the National Team and have a better chance of sustaining success. That will take years.

Therefore there is no alternative to the proverbial "Baptism By Fire" for many of our young cricketers in the hope that they turn out to be like Shakib, Tamim, Mashrafe, Mushfiq, Riyad and Nasir and not like those, not always without ability, who can't seem to make it for a variety of reasons.

I'd select Bijauy right away from the current U19 side but will take my time with LKD, SoSa, Taskin and others.