[Zephaniah]

My team for the two tests is: In batting order:
1) Javed Omar
2) Nafis Iqbal
3) Habibul Bashar
4) Rajin Saleh
5) Ash
6) Faisal Hussain/ Manjarul Rana/ Anyone*
7) Masud Pilot
8) Rafique
9) Abdur Razzaq
10) Mashrafe Mortaza
11) Tapash Baishya
........................
12th man : Talha
* 4 strike bowlers to take 20 wickets. Adding another military medium pace in Mushfique would not make any difference. Rajin and Bashar should turn their arms over to do fill-in job when one of those 4 bowlers operating at the other end. 3 SLA still doesn't make any sense to me even though one quality OB or LB could do wonders for us. Hence either Rana watches the game from the dressing room or take responsibilities to play as a batsman. For a realistic draw we need 6 batsman to pile up runs, hence 6 genuine batsmen, knowing the fact that Pilot and Rafique might score more than all of them again! Not sure if Aftab should get a test debut, but for 6th batsman spot Hannan could be another man, maybe. Or Faisal? He might survive with nominal footwork.


And ODIs
1) Javed Omar
2) Nafis Iqbal
3) Habibul Bashar
4) Rajin Saleh
5) Ash
6) Masud Pilot
7) Abdur Razzaq
8) Rafique
9) Mushfique / Mahmood / Talha**
10) Mashrafe Mortaza
11) Tapash Baishya

**It's absolutely right time stop calling Mushfique and Mahmood allrounder. And for first change bowling spot they have to fight with Talha. Depending on situation, only one of them will play.

Edited on, September 12, 2004, 2:23 PM GMT, by Zephaniah.