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Old July 31, 2005, 12:39 PM
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Default Sri Lankan younger pacers are much much better than ours

Sri Lankan younger pacers are much much better than ours. Do you know why?

Because when a Sri Lankan debutant bowler comes to bowl, they bowl very accurately and very straight - very unlike our Shahadat, Anwar & company.

It is very logical that we'll see star players like Vaas, Muralitharan to do well against any team including us with their vast experience in International scene.

But how come our pacers (or rather, all bowlers in general) can't be threatening enough against the Sri Lankan batsman?

I remember on our last tour to Sri Lanka, we were crushed by Dilhara Fernando's slower delivery along with a youngster Hasantha Farnando's accuracy in the One Dayers. But till date, no bowler of ours in particular did good against them. 2nd ODI vs SL in SL 2002

We can only remember Saiful Islam's name when it comes to bowling well against Sri Lanka. His bowling figures were the best bowling figures (of possibly 4/38) for Bangladesh in ODIs for a pretty long time.

And the only other 'memorable' moment that we can think of besides Saiful Islam's figures was Md. Ashraful's debut test innings. But that was while batting.

Talking about batting, I think Khaled Mashud is our leading run scorer in ODIs vs. SL and WOW Just see this:

BD MOST ODI RUNS vs. SL

Atahar Ali has a batting average of 50 in 4 ODIs against SL!

I don't get this, if somebody like Atahar Ali can have a One Day batting average of above 50 (where our average-batting average is just a shed over 20), then why can't all our batsman do better than what they have done so far?
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Old July 31, 2005, 12:44 PM
ZunaidH ZunaidH is offline
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fwullah;

You have an important component missing in yur analysis. And that is time. Sri Lanka were not what they are a couple of decades ago.
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Old July 31, 2005, 01:16 PM
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Yeah, right now.. every test nation (except Zimbabwe) has better bowlers than us. Give us the years they have in test cricket, we will have better.
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Old July 31, 2005, 01:37 PM
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we are lacking 2 more bowlers like Mortoza. It is not easy to achieve. I do not realize why BCB is so careless to hire bowling coach.
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Old July 31, 2005, 01:52 PM
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Originally posted by Mahmood
Yeah, right now.. every test nation (except Zimbabwe) has better bowlers than us. Give us the years they have in test cricket, we will have better.
zimbabwen;s rebel cricketers are back, most of them singed a contract so they now have bowlers like Heath Streak, Sean Ervine, Andy Blignaut , Doug Hondo back into their side!!!
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Old July 31, 2005, 03:38 PM
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Everyone is getting a bit too worried unnecessarily I assume. However,they are failing to notice we have capabale bowlers and they've showed their class previously in many encounters. We bowled excellently against the Zimbabweans, Indians, and the Kiwis in the home series. In England, the conditions were vastly different therefore we weren't accustomed to such type of pitch conditions and eventually the performance of our bowling department worsened. Whatsoever, this time I presume that our bowlers might be successfull enough, though not intimidating the Sri Lankan formiddable batting line-up, and hopefully with Dave Whatmore's acquaintance with Sri Lankan pitches and his full-fledged commitment to our emerging bowlers of how to make the best use of those conditions, I infer this time it can be completely different.
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