All test playing nations except Bangladesh have minimum TWO trustworthy pace bowler to open the bowling attack. Paniyangara And Chatara are actually pretty decent in terms of line and length in ODIs, hence our batmen struggled against them in three match out of five.
In our attack, only Mashrafe can be trusted for his line and length in the opening spell. The rest of the lot - Abul, Shafiul & Al-Amin sprayed a lot.
In ideal world I would like to see Mashrafee opening the bowling with Taskin Ahmed in WC2015 - both of them have good control over line and length. Rubel Hussain did well as third seamer against ZIM. Al-Amin will be on the bench for this good showing in WI, though he seems to be on downward spiral after being reported.
Mashrafe + Taskin + Rubel plus a specialist spinner will be in my playing eleven in WC2015
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