Test Series: What should be the goal?

[Ahmed_B]

The fact that Mashrafee is being taken out of the Test series will surely weaken the BD bowling strength pretty much. Rafiq remains to be the only bowler in the squad who is experienced enough to make an impression. All the others will remain to be experimental and will take half the time to adjust themselves to the series. So it can be said pretty honestly that we can't really depend on our bowling to perform well in the test series.

So it will rather be our batting that may put us to an appreciable level. The team should target to put a very good batting show in both tests and thus try to push the tests towards draw.

And we can think about winning only if our bowlers perform very well on some occassions. But in general.. the theme should be to bat very well and specially players like Bashar/Nafees/JO/Aftab/Ash/Mushfiq should try to play stable and long innings.

The team is in a confident form and they should take full advantage of the weaker SL bowling and try to have a better test series this time.

Edited on, February 26, 2006, 2:09 PM GMT, by Ahmed_B.