Experience of Bangladesh and Sri Lanka players ahead of 2017 tour

[Tiger Manc]

Bangladesh Test Caps

Mushfiqur Rahim 52
Shakib al Hasan 47
Tamim Iqbal 47
Mahmudullah 32
Rubel Hossain 24
Mominul Haque 21
Taijul Islam 12
Mehedi Hasan 5
Soumya Sarkar 5
Kamrul Islam 5
Sabbir Rahman 5
Taskin Ahmed 3
Liton Das 3
Mustafizur Rahman 2
Subashis Roy 1
Mosaddek Hossain 0

Sri Lanka Test Caps

Rangana Herath 78
Dimuth Karunaratne 36
Suranga Lakmal 34
Dinesh Chandimal 34
Upul Tharanga 25
Nuwan Pradeep 24
Kusal Mendis 14
Dilruwan Perera 14
Dhananjaya de Silva 8
Niroshan Dickwella 4
Lahiru Kumara 4
Lakshan Sandakan 3
Asela Gunaratne 2
Vikum Sanjaya 0
Malinda Pushpakumara 0

Total caps of Bangladesh squad of 16: 264 caps
Total caps of Sri Lanka squad of 15: 280 caps

Players with over 40 caps -Bangladesh 3: Mushy, Shakib and Tamim. Sri Lanka 1: Herath
Players making their debut before 2010 - Bangladesh 5: Mushy, Shakib, Tamim, Mahmudullah and Rubel. Sri Lanka 2: Herath and Tharanga

With the exclusion of Angelo Mathews from the Test series this is probably the closest we've ever come in terms of experience to a full strength Test team excluding Zimbabwe.

Mahela Jayawardene 149
Kumar Sangakkara 134
Angelo Mathews 65

Interestingly Mahela and Sanga have more caps then the entire Sri Lankan squad combined. You can understand why Mushy is confident of ahead of the Test series.

[Night_wolf]

experience means nothing for our players, they do the same things over and over again, doesnt matter on debut or on 100th test

[Tigers_eye]

If you break down the bowling:
Shakib al Hasan 47
Taijul Islam 12
Mehedi Hasan 5
Taskin Ahmed 3
Mustafizur Rahman 2

That is average of 14.

For SL
Rangana Herath 78
Suranga Lakmal 34
Nuwan Pradeep 24
Lakshan Sandakan 3
Malinda Pushpakumara 0

Average of 25+.

[Match Adda]

Need self confidence for bd players, rather then any mathematical experience. This tour is the best and biggest opportunity for the bd team to dominate srilanka... especially when they did well in 2013 without key players like sakib, tamim... now mustafiz and miraz and taskin... I'm really hoping they do utilize this opportunity..

[NoName]

Originally Posted by Night_wolf
experience means nothing for our players, they do the same things over and over again, doesnt matter on debut or on 100th test

Lolz we did the same thing during our ODI series with England and we lost...at home

[mufi_02]

Eibar amader thekabe ke. Dimu dekhaiya!!

[MHRAM]

Experience is meaningless when you don't apply experience in crunch moments

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[BD_TigerZ]

Originally Posted by Night_wolf
experience means nothing for our players, they do the same things over and over again, doesnt matter on debut or on 100th test

Well said.

[Mas_UK25]

Mushy, Shakib, Tamim, Riyad. These 4, this is your time. Time has cometh for you to stand up and take this series, helping the rest perform well. All the investment BD and BCB made on you lot, all those years now it's time you 4 take major lead, responsibilities to win this golden chance to beat a relatively young inexperienced SL side. I don't think BD will have a better chance than this, Lanka will regroup next few years and by the time BD next goes to SL, Lanka will be a better team then, with the currnet crop of players.

[Tiger Manc]

Originally Posted by Tigers_eye
If you break down the bowling:
Shakib al Hasan 47
Taijul Islam 12
Mehedi Hasan 5
Taskin Ahmed 3
Mustafizur Rahman 2

That is average of 14.

For SL
Rangana Herath 78
Suranga Lakmal 34
Nuwan Pradeep 24
Lakshan Sandakan 3
Malinda Pushpakumara 0

Average of 25+.

Conversely the batting is as follows

Mushfiqur Rahim 52
Shakib al Hasan 47
Tamim Iqbal 47
Mahmudullah 32
Mominul Haque 21
Soumya Sarkar 5
Liton Das 3

Average 29

Dimuth Karunaratne 36
Dinesh Chandimal 34
Upul Tharanga 25
Kusal Mendis 14
Dhananjaya de Silva 8
Niroshan Dickwella 4
Asela Gunaratne 2

Average 17

[Tiger Manc]

Bangladesh Test Caps

Mushfiqur Rahim 52
Shakib al Hasan 47
Tamim Iqbal 47
Mahmudullah 32
Mominul Haque 21
Mehedi Hasan 5
Soumya Sarkar 5
Taskin Ahmed 3
Liton Das 3
Mustafizur Rahman 2
Subashis Roy 1


Sri Lanka Test Caps

Rangana Herath 78
Dimuth Karunaratne 36
Suranga Lakmal 34
Dinesh Chandimal 34
Upul Tharanga 25
Kusal Mendis 14
Dilruwan Perera 14
Niroshan Dickwella 4
Lahiru Kumara 4
Lakshan Sandakan 3
Asela Gunaratne 2

Total caps of Bangladesh team: 218 caps
Total caps of Sri Lanka team: 248 caps

When you consider the performance of the batsmen from both sides you wouldn't think we had the more experienced batting lineup.

[Tiger Manc]

Bangladesh ODI Caps

Mashrafe Mortaza 169
Shakib al Hasan 166
Mushfiqur Rahim 165
Tamim Iqbal 162
Mahmudullah 134
Rubel Hossain 69
Imrul Kayes 65
Sabbir Rahman 30
Taskin Ahmed 21
Soumya Sarkar 20
Mustafizur Rahman 10
Mosaddek Hossain 8
Shuvagata Hom 4
Nurul Hasan 2
Subashis Roy 1
Mehedi Hasan 0
Sanjamul Islam 0


Sri Lanka ODI Caps

Upul Tharanga 198
Dinesh Chandimal 122
Thisara Perera 114
Kusal Perera 68
Suranga Lakmal 58
Seekkuge Prasanna 34
Kusal Mendis 22
Danushka Gunathilaka 16
Dhananjaya de Silva 16
Sachith Pathirana 14
Niroshan Dickwella 11
Asela Gunaratne 10
Lakshan Sandakan 5
Lahiru Kumara 3
Vikum Sanjaya 0


Total caps of Bangladesh squad of 17: 1026 caps
Total caps of Sri Lanka squad of 15: 691 caps

We have a bigger squad, but we have more caps than them by a country mile.