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Old October 31, 2003, 11:07 AM
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I've seen Bangladesh's batting today - the way that the last 6 batsman got out, it didn't seem like that the players had ever faced short of length balls before.

Now obviously most of them have faced same short pitched balls in South Africa, Australia, and they're quite surprised to see a Bangladeshi wicket behaving the way that South African or Australian pitches act.

Frankly speaking, to me, it seemed like they had totally forgotten that this type of bowling had existed before.

Rajin Saleh and Mushfiqur Rahman has not been to those places, but Khaled Mashud has. And yet, Khaled Mashud went out just on the perfect bouncy short of length ball, which was not really a bouncer.

If the trend that has been upto now, then we have a lot of difficult path ahead of us. Whenever a new player is playing his first game for Bangladesh, he will have to start learning how to play on such hostile conditions all over again.

So obviously, the messege is not going through from the likes of Hannan Sarkar, Habibul Bashar, Alok Kapali who knows how to handle such situations to the other batsman like Rajin Saleh, Mushfiqur Rahman and the other lower order batsman.
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