Test Squad

[pilot fan]

read article in paper today saying that the four players outside the test sqwuad that would be in contention for the test 11 are

nafis iqbal
pilot
kapali
tusher

so no el haque which is very surpirising to me

[Ajfar]

pilot fan bhai...pilot er khobor pawar sathe sathe post koraa dilenn.....LOLOLOLLLzzz....i hope they dn't select him ...cause mushfiq seems to be the perfect option for test....

[Tigers_eye]

Iqbal
JO
Rajin
SN (VC)
Ash (C)
Sakib
Mushfiq
Mash
Rafiq
Enam Jr.
Shahadat

12th man Habibul Bashar.

If Nafis Iqbal is not ready yet then Mehrab Jr. comes in. HB remains as the 12th man.

[Farhad]

Nafis Iqbal....How come he suddenly comes back into the picture? He might get his wish after all. To play with his brother in the national team. That is, if Tamim is even chosen for the test side...

[Dhakablues]

Other than Tusher/Pilot, I dont think Nafis is coming back anytime soon. Aftab might get the axe but he deserved to be out unless he metamorphs into something before the test series. And the selectors have clearly decided that they wont make any change.. In fact, i dont know how they can change a team.. its not like we are giving preferences to players who played well in the domestic league. Other than Ashraful none of the current national players even made a decent score in first class recently that I am aware of. Kapali is doing much better as captain but I dont think he will be selected.

[Farhad]

Originally Posted by Tigers_eye
Iqbal
JO
Rajin
SN (VC)
Ash (C)
Sakib
Mushfiq
Mash
Rafiq
Enam Jr.
Shahadat

12th man Habibul Bashar.

Tamim or Nafis?

[Beamer]

Originally Posted by pilot fan
read article in paper today saying that the four players outside the test sqwuad that would be in contention for the test 11 are

nafis iqbal
pilot
kapali
tusher

so no el haque which is very surpirising to me

Kapali? really?? where did you read the article? I must investigate first hand. Its music to my ears..

[layperson]

Originally Posted by pilot fan
read article in paper today saying that the four players outside the test sqwuad that would be in contention for the test 11 are

nafis iqbal
pilot
kapali
tusher

so no el haque which is very surpirising to me

If this is true then we will be taking our cricket 10 years back. The two underlined players are a strict no no as far as national team is concerned. Pilot is done with and he needs to retire and if he does not realise that then he should be kept out like he was in the WC. Rahim is going to do just fine for BD. He is a step forward for BD and pilot will take back the team by 5 years thank to his wonderful(??) battting skills. Kapali, the less said the better. One of the few players who frustrated me to the extreme with the amount of chances he got and the consistent manner in which he failed in them.

[akabir77]

Originally Posted by Tigers_eye
Iqbal
JO
Rajin
SN (VC)
Ash (C)
Sakib
Mushfiq
Mash
Rafiq
Enam Jr.
Shahadat

12th man Habibul Bashar.

If Nafis Iqbal is not ready yet then Mehrab Jr. comes in. HB remains as the 12th man.

T_E i can't believe that you r taking Hablu out from the Test team. come on. There is no one else in BD squad other than him to make a 50 or 70 regularly. Don't mix ODI with TEST please he was never a good ODI player. but TEST player we got.

I think if SN gets some runs in ODI then we might see SN with IQ.

Also Mushi might get in as a batsman but no way we should or would drop Pilot from the TEST team. we need his slow batting and good keeping in TEST

[akabir77]

Originally Posted by layperson
If this is true then we will be taking our cricket 10 years back. The two underlined players are a strict no no as far as national team is concerned. Pilot is done with and he needs to retire and if he does not realise that then he should be kept out like he was in the WC. Rahim is going to do just fine for BD. He is a step forward for BD and pilot will take back the team by 5 years thank to his wonderful(??) battting skills. Kapali, the less said the better. One of the few players who frustrated me to the extreme with the amount of chances he got and the consistent manner in which he failed in them.

Chill out bro they r for TEST not ODI

[TheWatcher]

I heard Kapali is currently with the national team to help them prepare playing Chawla's leg breaks.

I wonder how Nafees Iqbal's name suddenly came up.

[Miraz]

The news is misleading. Pilot_fan, BCB called the players who are centrally contacted into the practice camp in addition to the playing squad for India tour.

Enamul Huq Jr. is currently with the academy and so is Mehrab Jr.

That's why they are absent in the practice camp.

I hope this will clarify the confusions.

[BanCricFan]

Originally Posted by Beamer
Kapali? really?? where did you read the article? I must investigate first hand. Its music to my ears..

hope you're not being sarcastic! can't tell these days!:p



Yes, Kapali should be in the Test side.

[layperson]

I think neither of Pilot or Kapali should be in either the test or ODI team. Why would we want to go backwards is beyond me. We have so many younger players coming along who are much better than these two. We should persist with the same team that played in teh WC for both test and ODI and only replace any players with newer players who are coming of age not the older fagheads.

[Nafis_BD]

Yeah they should let me play for them in the test team I am really talented not like some buira players in the BD team......hahaha !!!

[akabir77]

Originally Posted by layperson
I think neither of Pilot or Kapali should be in either the test or ODI team. Why would we want to go backwards is beyond me. We have so many younger players coming along who are much better than these two. We should persist with the same team that played in teh WC for both test and ODI and only replace any players with newer players who are coming of age not the older fagheads.

There is no substitute for experience in TEST. No matter how good these young r they will not bring us what we need right now in TEST. I don't know about Kapali but Pilot and Hablu is A MUST for the TEST team

[sadi]

Here is my lineup:

Shahriar Nafees (I know he is going through bad patches but lets see if test matches help him out)
Javed Omar (I wouldn't put Tamim in just yet. Nafis needs to prove his form first. Golla is there because we don't have anyone better. I wouldn't pick Mehrab as an opener)
Habibul Bashar (He is still one of the best in test matches)
Mohammad Ashraful (Automatic choice)
Sakib Al Hasan (First test but automatic choice)
Mushfiqur Rahim (Got the techniques and temperament to do it. He will be amazing. Trust me)
Khaled Masud (Still our number one keeper and a must in test matches)
Mashrafee Mortaza (automatic choice)
Mohammad Rafique (automatic choice)
Enamul Haque jr (Welcome back. Lets see what he can do. He needs to do well since Razzak is pushing for his spot)
Shahadat Hussain (A tight fight between him and Rasel but aggression and pace wins it for him)

12th: Rajin Saleh/Mehrab jr

[Murad]

i think roqibul hasan shud get a call.. he did very in NCL and now doing better with the Academy team..

[Mahir]

Originally Posted by TheWatcher
I heard Kapali is currently with the national team to help them prepare playing Chawla's leg breaks.

Piyush re niye eto bhoy, je Kapali re dakte hoilo ? Sachin Tendulkar was a few other bowlers' first victim too!

I wonder how Nafees Iqbal's name suddenly came up.

He was always around when it came to the preliminary Test squad. As usual, he won't be able to make the final selection.

Well, this is how the team should turn out to be for the first Test :

SNafees (vc) << Future Captain! NOT Ashraful, please.
Mehrab jnr (Javed will come in here in reality)
Bashar (c)
Sakib
Ashraful
Rajin
Mashud (Mushfiq will be well-ready by the time Pilot retires)
Rafique
Mashrafee
Enamul Jnr
Shahadat

Can someone please convince me that we can do with 4 specialist bowlers instead of 5 in today's cricket, especially in the context of the current BD team ? I am not certain on this issue...

[wiseshah]

its nice to see so much enthusiasm, great for BD future. seems like all of u are right. anyway, my 14 should be

javed Omar
Shahriar nafees
Habibul bashar (auto choice for test and captain)
Saqib Ul hasan
Mohammad Ashraful
Tushar Imran
Mushfiqur Rahim
Mohammad Rafiq
mashrafi Mortaza
Enamul haq Jr
Shahadat hossain

12. Syed Rasel
13. Rajin Saleh (cane be opener/middle order and bowler, in place of tushar)
14.Raqib ul hasan (its his best time and he deserve a chance)
15. Mehrab Hossain Jr (as an opener, and part time bowler)

[wiseshah]

i think mushfiq is better choice than pilot in test match also, he can bat according to bowl's merit and he can be vital batsman in test match. shahadat will come in place of rasel for sure. I dont think kapali is ready yet for national team, dont forget all his performance came, when national team 15 and BCB academy 15 was out of country, so he performed against team (where top 30 players are missing). Raqib ul hasan definitely deserve a chance becz of his super form, may be he will be another SN very soon (except the WC shahriar nafees). Razzaq might get chance instead of Enamul Jr, both are good choice, no doubt. Aftab's fate will depend on his ODI performance. Rasel might get chance, if shahadat doesnt perform

[AsifTheManRahman]

Mushfiq should play and Pilot is a no-no. he hasn't done anything special with the bat to deserve a spot.

Raqibul should be tested more and given more games with the A team, so that when he joins the national team in the future (if at all), we can get the best out of him.

Kapali hasn't done much to topple anyone in the top six or seven from the core group and doesn't deserve a call, but I don't think including him when he performs better than this bunch will take our cricket backwards. He is not 35. In fact, I don't support the way our selectors turn their backs on anyone aged over 25 just because they are aged over 25. Experience should count for something, and the best eleven in the country should play, without any age barriers.

[layperson]

Originally Posted by AsifTheManRahman
Mushfiq should play and Pilot is a no-no. he hasn't done anything special with the bat to deserve a spot.

Raqibul should be tested more and given more games with the A team, so that when he joins the national team in the future (if at all), we can get the best out of him.

Kapali hasn't done much to topple anyone in the top six or seven from the core group and doesn't deserve a call, but I don't think including him when he performs better than this bunch will take our cricket backwards. He is not 35. In fact, I don't support the way our selectors turn their backs on anyone aged over 25 just because they are aged over 25. Experience should count for something, and the best eleven in the country should play, without any age barriers.

Completely agree with what you just said. Except that I think Kapali will never perform better than the current or future top 7 batsmen in Bangladesh. His international career is over in my eyes and I know it sounds harsh but that is how I feel personally about kapali. Regarding rahim and pilot people keep talking about experience !!! I find that BS. Bashar has to play because he is performing in test matches and also because we do not have a replacement skipper for him now. Pilot has no reason to be selected ahead of rahim based on seniority. If this was the case then bring back all the senior players currently playing in the league to replace the younger players. Heck you will then have a very experienced playing 11 and I bet all the money I have that the test match would be over in a record time. Performance and nothing else should be the criterion for selection. This is the difference between a progressive thinking CEO running his business and a traditional thinking CEO running his. The progressive one will give promotions based on performance while the traditional one would promote based on seniority. Another good example would be privat sector vs the public sector in Bangladesh where in the latter one seniority is the criterion for advancement while in the former it is mostly about performance. We all know which sector in Bangladesh is more efficient.

[AsifTheManRahman]

Originally Posted by layperson
Completely agree with what you just said. Except that I think Kapali will never perform better than the current or future top 7 batsmen in Bangladesh. His international career is over in my eyes and I know it sounds harsh but that is how I feel personally about kapali.

but we don't know that. no one knows that. rafique's international career wasn't looking all that great even a few years ago and look where he is today.

bashar, too, used to be worse than nannu/akram/selim shahed/khaled mahmud, and he turned out to be our best test batsman ever (well he probably still is - we haven't played tests in a while, so it's hard to say).

[cricketboy]

Originally Posted by AsifTheManRahman
but we don't know that. no one knows that. rafique's international career wasn't looking all that great even a few years ago and look where he is today.

bashar, too, used to be worse than nannu/akram/selim shahed/khaled mahmud, and he turned out to be our best test batsman ever (well he probably still is - we haven't played tests in a while, so it's hard to say).

I also agree with you that Kapali has a future but he needs to sort his fishing habit outside offstump.