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Originally Posted by Dhakablues
Well when you also take into consideration the Strike Rate, the sorting suddenly changes. Then you will see that Clarke, Kohli, Chandimal, U. Akmal are more dangerous players who can be very effective and are 'match winners'..

By and large, our players are very fit because they are still very young and can burn off their fat pretty easily. Mashrafee is super fit now and the only season he was unfit is when he was out of gym, workout due to his surgery last year. Heck, even Zaheer Khan baloons up after injury because of the sub-continent diet when you are not with the team.

One thing that rarely gets mentioned is, that Siddons used to mention time to time is, even if the players wants to be fit or work out, how in earth is he going to the gym in 2.5 hours traffic jam in the city? Golds Gym costs 40,000/month and BCBs own facility is a farce with some dumbells and bench presses. Even my old apartment had more equipments than what BCB has put in for players.. that too you have to come to Mirpur or go to Dhanmondi only. Besides, a player who is not under contract, can't access the BCB gyms whenver they wanted to. Any of of you recall the picture where Ashraful was working out with the team with color faded, oxidized, manual leg press? So before blaming the players for lack of muscles, we should also ask some of these basic questions.

that's disgusting.. in countries like Australia they have much better gym/training facility for local players never mind international players. Bcb is too busy looting money than to benefit our cricket