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Originally Posted by Communique
A small question. Does anyone here know how many years it took the current #1 ranked Test team to win it's first Test match after it got it's Test playing status ?
20 years !! That's right. Bangladesh has won it's first Test even before it completed it's first 10 years of Test cricket. Yes, it was against Zimbabwe, but don't you think there were minnows during India's time yet it took 20 damn years for them to win their first Test ? Also, Bangladesh was on the brink of winning a Test match against Pakistan back in 2003/04. Luckily Pakistan escaped. That was just 3/4 years after Bangladesh started playing Test cricket.
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Of which about 10 years were lost in world war and partition etc. It was not India's achievement alone that India didn't win any games in 30s and 40s. Bangladesh and Pakistan also were also responsible to such performance as they were part of India prior to partition. No point shirking that responsiblity! With in 10 years after they resumed playing after partition they were able to beat most sides every once a while. I can point out that India started to win after partition, hence it is the fault of Pakistan or Bangladesh
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At any rate, Bangladesh should worry about its today's performance as they have in excess of 50 innings defeat already in such a short time. Whether Bangladesh will ever win meaningful games other than against Zimbabwe or some other team playing with second string side is still a matter of question. Just pointing out Indias record in 1940s and 30s is nice way of hiding ones current showing. Point is if you insist India didn't win early on, I should point out that it took Bangladesh 50 years to get where India was in 1950 with regards to cricket.