Sick of excuses

[WarWolf]

I know we are unlucky a little bit. Yet I am sick of these excuses.

"Styren was on fire today".... "Umpiring is not good". .."The batsman was a little bit unlucky to not have the benefit of doubt". ..."We are unlucky to loose the toss". ..."We misjudged the wicket"...

I am sick of these kinda excuses; both from the players and some of the fans. International cricket is not honeymoon period. You gotta face a lot of difficulties. You gotta be tough enough to adopt at this level. There is no room of all these lame excuses even after 8 years in test arena. I am really feeling bad, very bad. We need to break this poor culture. We really need to do it....

[sandpiper]

Everybody knows that, except the ones who matter most.

[DJ Sahastra]

The "dead pitch" excuse and blame on the curator is the worst i have seen by (surprisingly a few prominent member - with an apology for offending any) over time.

Dead pitches only mean you gotto the play the way BD played on Day-2 and NOT throwing in the towel.

[pocha]

The only thing I know is excuses (which we fans have mastered over the years) wont get us anywhere except that it will make us more complacent and slower our overall progress. Anyways this is a very common traits in Bangalis to give excuses starting from getting late to office to finishing work way late in time. One excuse is made to hide another excuse. Still sick of excuse? Doctors/Medicines/Chill PIlls available in plenty in BC to cure you. Anyway just visit forget cricket section, may be that will make you feel a little better mate.

[WarWolf]

Happy to see no excuse yesterday. Probably they didn't come to press conference.

[Pundit]

They invented para cetamol for all of you sick people.

[WarWolf]

Originally Posted by Pundit
They invented para cetamol for all of you sick people.

Paracetamol is hepato-toxic; injurious for liver.

[Mridul]

The Bottom Line:

Bangladesh Cricket Team is simply not good enough

[Rabz]

Yap, we simply are not good enough.
Bottom line.

[Dhurr]

Kalke shobai Steyn re niya lafalafi kortesilo. Steyn hen korenga, ten korenga. Bangladeshi batsmen der dosh na; Steyn er bhoyanok bipodjonok 10 nombor moha bipod shonket wala bowling er karone 3 ta wicket porsilo kalke shondha te, supposedly.

Ami bolsilam Steyn na, Kuddus Miya Boyati bowling korle o 3 ta wicket porto. Eita bolar jonne public amar upore khepsilo.

To ajke ki? Ajke Steyn kon rajjo uddhar korse? Ei Peterson bhodai emon ki ahamori bowling kore je or ball khelte jaiya dui raja badsha out hoiya gelo? Ntini ki emon panta bhat khaiya aisha bowling korlo je ore keo khelte pare na?

Amra pari khali ekta jinish. Excuse deya. Hoi coach excuse dei, naile kaptan shab excuse dei, naile player ra excuse dei. Ar tenara keo na dile fan ra excuse dei. Ei hoilo obostha.

[djnaved]

Originally Posted by Dhurr
Kalke shobai Steyn re niya lafalafi kortesilo. Steyn hen korenga, ten korenga. Bangladeshi batsmen der dosh na; Steyn er bhoyanok bipodjonok 10 nombor moha bipod shonket wala bowling er karone 3 ta wicket porsilo kalke shondha te, supposedly.

Ami bolsilam Steyn na, Kuddus Miya Boyati bowling korle o 3 ta wicket porto. Eita bolar jonne public amar upore khepsilo.

To ajke ki? Ajke Steyn kon rajjo uddhar korse? Ei Peterson bhodai emon ki ahamori bowling kore je or ball khelte jaiya dui raja badsha out hoiya gelo? Ntini ki emon panta bhat khaiya aisha bowling korlo je ore keo khelte pare na?

Amra pari khali ekta jinish. Excuse deya. Hoi coach excuse dei, naile kaptan shab excuse dei, naile player ra excuse dei. Ar tenara keo na dile fan ra excuse dei. Ei hoilo obostha.

best quote of the day

[BD-Shardul]

Originally Posted by Dhurr
Kalke shobai Steyn re niya lafalafi kortesilo. Steyn hen korenga, ten korenga. Bangladeshi batsmen der dosh na; Steyn er bhoyanok bipodjonok 10 nombor moha bipod shonket wala bowling er karone 3 ta wicket porsilo kalke shondha te, supposedly.

Ami bolsilam Steyn na, Kuddus Miya Boyati bowling korle o 3 ta wicket porto. Eita bolar jonne public amar upore khepsilo.

To ajke ki? Ajke Steyn kon rajjo uddhar korse? Ei Peterson bhodai emon ki ahamori bowling kore je or ball khelte jaiya dui raja badsha out hoiya gelo? Ntini ki emon panta bhat khaiya aisha bowling korlo je ore keo khelte pare na?

Amra pari khali ekta jinish. Excuse deya. Hoi coach excuse dei, naile kaptan shab excuse dei, naile player ra excuse dei. Ar tenara keo na dile fan ra excuse dei. Ei hoilo obostha.

Pura hoq kotha koisen bhai.

[Sohel]

Let's not confuse FACTS with excuses.

Kuddus Miya Boyati can cut through out batting order like a warm knife through butter on any given day! The glorious CERTAINTIES of our batting ...

[PoorFan]

Its time to run away from TEST cricket, I mean it, we had enough.

[lamisa]

Originally Posted by WarWolf
Happy to see no excuse yesterday. Probably they didn't come to press conference.

actually there were excuses.SN said that it was a flat wicket so the saffers generated bounce which though were not high enough but were keeping to most batsmen's head leve.thus it became hard to face off the balls.whereas due to some reasons,our pacers could not generate them and bla bla bla.what i didnt like about sn's talks were that he had a damn care attitude,like hey maan i have done my job.if the pacers cant help its not my fault nad all.many bd players have it and this is another thing which leads to our downfall.

[Anher]

I was watching a funny episode of Jim carrey which remind me bangladesh's excuses after every bad day.

[Imtiaz]

Originally Posted by I_Knockout_U
I was watching a funny episode of Jim carrey which remind me bangladesh's excuses after every bad day.

Every bad day = Every day

[WarWolf]

Enough is enough. Feeling myself to be one of those mothers who supports their young kids down to hell like anything and try to hide them and their wicked works from the rest of the world. As a result, those kids get spoiled as they know their moms won't remain angry for a long time and won't throw them away from the house.

I think i won't keep on being soft with these non-sense kids from now on. I gotta be rough enough as they deserve. We failed to teach them anything with soft words. Let's try the other way.

[BANFAN]

Originally Posted by WarWolf
I know we are unlucky a little bit. Yet I am sick of these excuses.

"Styren was on fire today".... "Umpiring is not good". .."The batsman was a little bit unlucky to not have the benefit of doubt". ..."We are unlucky to loose the toss". ..."We misjudged the wicket"...

I am sick of these kinda excuses; both from the players and some of the fans. International cricket is not honeymoon period. You gotta face a lot of difficulties. You gotta be tough enough to adopt at this level. There is no room of all these lame excuses even after 8 years in test arena. I am really feeling bad, very bad. We need to break this poor culture. We really need to do it....

Truly So.

Most of these boys grow up on a 'Carrot & stick Method' a pure gentleman approach is not good enough. Most of them haven't any sense of esponsibility, Self respect, Ambitions for being so young. Most of them have their aim of life fulfilled by just getting into the national team. Meeting their heroes & tavelling is bonus. They really need a psychologists to mould/stirr their psyche and BCB needs to come hard at them if they are not meeting the standards.

[view360]

The money they are receiving from BCB is more like some charity. They deserve this money as much as any false blind begger in the country.

[AsifTheManRahman]

Originally Posted by Sohel NR
Let's not confuse FACTS with excuses.

Yeah, let's not. The fact is we are just not good enough yet. Our batsmen cannot put up with quality fast bowling, or any bowling for that matter, for too long because they lack the required temperament. These are not excuses but rather facts that continue to make the story of Bangladesh cricket such a tragedy.

[WarWolf]

Originally Posted by AsifTheManRahman
Yeah, let's not. The fact is we are just not good enough yet. Our batsmen cannot put up with quality fast bowling, or any bowling for that matter, for too long because they lack the required temperament. These are not excuses but rather facts that continue to make the story of Bangladesh cricket such a tragedy.

For the first time in my career as a blind Bangladeshi fan, i m feeling helpless and seeing no light.

[pocha]

Originally Posted by WarWolf
For the first time in my career as a blind Bangladeshi fan, i m feeling helpless and seeing no light.

You must have read the book "How to support your team blindly as a BD cricket fan" for dummies. Even I have. Thats the problem - anything blind is too dangerous, just like blind love. It will mostly end in a crash. Lets continue to support but not blindly. The boys are too relaxed of their places because of this blind love. They need more competition among themselves.

Anyway I am surprised that we are now talking about facts and not excuses. Lets see how long it lasts - my guess not more than 36 hours. I am happy that the coach is at least talking less to the press.

[AsifTheManRahman]

Originally Posted by WarWolf
For the first time in my career as a blind Bangladeshi fan, i m feeling helpless and seeing no light.

Don't be too disheartened. Something of this sort was highly likely to happen. While we have played test cricket for eight years, we were granted the status a tad early, so that the infrastructure/understanding of the game from a management perspective hasn't developed as fast as our expectations/the notion of where we should have been by now.

It will take some time - a lot of time - to get to a place where we will have strong domestic leagues and be producing more competent players. This generation has, so far, shown the world that on our day(s), we are capable of playing good cricket. We don't know whether they will go as far as, say, winning the world cup or becoming a strong force in test cricket. It might take a whole new generation of cricketers for greater achievements.

But for now, the truth is that our system is just not mature enough to produce high quality cricketers. We are where we are because this is where we are supposed to be, if you come to think of it. Not to make excuses here, but as long as the overall system (and this includes domestic leagues, age group training, academies, A team cricket) doesn't get to a minimum standard, we won't be producing too many satisfactory results, and there's not much that we can do about it other than work for it and wait.

[BANFAN]

Originally Posted by AsifTheManRahman
Yeah, let's not. The fact is we are just not good enough yet. Our batsmen cannot put up with quality fast bowling, or any bowling for that matter, for too long because they lack the required temperament. These are not excuses but rather facts that continue to make the story of Bangladesh cricket such a tragedy.

That's why all these discussion. What's the solution to the problems? or do you mean that there is no solution to that?

Any game is a game of attaining and refining skills and it can be improved by practice only (Practice Makes a man perfect, as people say) Either the players do it themselves or the board forces them into rigorous practice shcedule. We have sufficient reasons to believe that the players don't have the initiative; we are left with the last option. We don't have unlimited time and don't like to loose the test status.

What do you (All) suggest we should do, in your opinion?