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Originally Posted by beshideshi
People against BD test status say that NZ/India did take more than 20 years to win, but they had much fewer games etc etc. But my point is, its time that develops a cricketing nation, not merely the number of games. Give another 3-4 to the current bunch and you will see how this BD team makes every cricket website/article say *top 9 teams are playing......* instead of *top 8 teams......*
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there is some truth to what you say. but you also have to consider the prevailing social and political condition in India. say BD was playing test cricket as a separate nation in the period 1966-72, would it be fair to judge their performance against that of a stable country with cricketing infrastructure in place, the BD of 2000's ?
in 30's and 40's the board couldn't afford to send players to play overseas, it had to depend on help from whimsical rajas and maharajas to bankroll them (who often demanded a place in the side in return). one can easily imagine what the training facilities and domestic infrastructure would have been like. and those big breaks did nothing to help the players develop, in the absence of a proper domestic season, one or two tests a year was a perfect recipe for disastrous results.