We don't utilise our youngstars properly

[Safwat]

Yes, players like Ashraful and others are underperforming. But we have to see the roots first. We have to see how they are made cricketers.

We had a player like TENDULKAR in our Ashraful. But we wasted his talent. If a boy is performing well at the age 16, it doesn't mean that we have to make him play in the national site. He should have continued playing for the U19 and after that he should have been sent to Australian Institute of Sports for couple of years. Then play some county cricket in England. And after gaining all these experience, he should have played for Bangladesh. The same rules should have followed for Talha Jubair, Nazmul Hossain etc. We can take these examples from the fellow top cricketing nations- Australia, England, South Africa, New Zealand.

Imagine if we bring in player to the national side following the procedures mentioned above, we can get even a stronger cricket team than Australia. But if we continue to bring our young guns at 16, 17.........our team will never match the giants in cricket. We can do this job better than England and Australia because I feel Bangladesh has more talents than those countries. Bangladesh also has the most lively cricket fans in the world......away in front of India, Pakistan, Australia, England.