[Sohel]

1. Mrs. Benson: unfit, lazy, stupid, arrogant and now married, I expect nothing from this borderline has-been anymore. BTW, he was benched ONLY because of his injury. Bichir oi rokom "bampar folon" eyakhono hoy nai to bench his fat @$$ because of hopelessly bad form.

2. Kopa: all about securing his place by reaching personal milestones, and then giving it away like a 5-dollar crack hoe. But a keeper until he stops scoring.

3. VJ: bad footwork, zero improvement since the problem was exposed, and without the hand-eye coordination of forces of nature like Sehwag, Gayle or even Shakib, he needs to grow the ef up. Major plus: temperament and shot selection once he sights the ball early and accidentally gets into position to play it right. A keeper until he stops scoring.

4. MHS: way too short but a definite keeper. He tries to make visible improvement in every game and on the whole, our most reliable player. I see him adjusting to better bowlers and tougher conditions throughout his international career. Bogurar meyer pallay na porle moderately ujjol post-marital bhobishshot, because I don't think any wife not from Bogura can make unreasonable demands on such a cute little guy.

5. Shakib: will always play the way he has played and has been successful playing. He won't change. Sometimes he'll score a 100 and other times he'll throw it away at 96. Get used to it. Pasa mota howa shuru hoise kintu he's still the best. He'll succeed a lot more often than he's likely to fail.

6. Mushfiq: his brain-freezes will continue to cost us games, and he'll continue to exercise his freedom to drop catches and blow stumping opportunities behind the stumps, especially against spinners. I suppose lateral footwork is too cumbersome to learn for such a big man. Batting-wise, he's essential because of technique and courage. Being from Bogura and more than likely to marry someone from that ball-busting province, he'll begin to decline after marriage. Until then, we'll win more games with him in the team than without him in all formats. BTW, there's no real alternative to him at this moment as captaincy goes.

7. Nasir (copy/pasted from another thread): even the best players of the game went through down-cycles and Nasir, as good a young player as he is, will never reach those heights no matter how he may appear to tower over teammates incapable of scoring even 10 test or ODI 100s at this point, thanks to our legendary failure to convert good starts into statistical milestones. So please take a chill pill and watch how he meets the combined challenge of better bowlers, tougher conditions, adoration/demonization from 160 million plus, and eventually marriage. But he won't survive marriage to any woman from Bogura. There's hope as long as he remains single.

8. Shohag: the decline, no doubt fueled by deserved praise, has already begun. Marriage, especially to a woman from Bogura, will destroy his international career for sure. In many ways he typifies the short shelf-life of our promising young players.

9. Koushik: Still our greatest threat with the new ball, and our worst death over bowler, he'll be in and out of the team whenever health permits. He's also a zillion times better with the bat than embarrassments like Zia.

10. PLO: I like him. Wonderful find who'll do great until deserved praise makes him lazy, and marriage, especially to a woman from Bogura, removes his testiscles to end his international career.

11. AA: cheharata bhalo hole he'd have been mentioned in the same breath as world beaters like Koushik and Rajib when in form. I like him a lot. Don't see him getting married anytime soon and as such, becoming our most consistent pacer in history.