It is wonderful to see such amazing competition among-st our players which can only drive us to become the best. so if you do not perform for three matches in a row, you are
of the team as we saw with Naeem Islam(would still keep him for tests only though)
Solutions? We need to play Tests/ODI's consistently. Even if we have a super hectic heavy schedule, we now have the luxury of resting players and rotating them. I believe currently there are a core group of 15-20 players who are either in the national team or knocking the door. We should increase our quota of matches in the FTP more.
To start off, we should not have an (ODI/Test) break in the international calendar for more than three months
Here are the current group of players in and out of the national team:
1. Tamim
2. Imrul Kayes
3. Anamul Haque
4. Shakib al Hasan
5. Riyad
6. Rahim
7. Mortaza
8. Sohag Gazi
9. Ziaur Rahman
10. Elias Sunny
11. Abdur Razzak
12. Enamul Haque jr.
13. Mominul Haque
14. Shafiul Islam
15. Nazmul Hossain
16. Rubel Hossain
17. Abul Hasan Raju
18. Naeem Islam
19. Nasir Hossain
Recent Discards: Nazimuddin, Ashraful, Nafees, Siddique(go back to A team and perform)
Talent pool outside of the national team that needs to be groomed properly: Marshall Ayub, Nur Hossain Munna, Kamrul Islam Rabbi, Al Amin Hossain, Alauddin Babu, Mehrab Hossain jr., Abu Jayed, Shubhogoto Hom, Farhad Reza, Sabbir Rahman Rumman,Talha Jubair(consistently keep these guys in touch with the A team/Academy team)
that's a total of 34 players!
That's not a bad bunch to work with! you have a solid mixture of experience and raw talent. To reiterate, we can easily rotate players like India does many a times if and when we increase the number of games we play per year as we should if we are to become a major force in world cricket. we need to start touring South Africa, Australia, India to beat them at their home turf...only then we can convince critics and cricket pundits alike that Bangladesh has come of age and not just a flash in the pan anymore.