Bangla cricket

I am a cricket fan and hope for the best for our test status. However, as always, I feel that we do not deserve to play test cricket and no matter how much more we wait to gain experience, we will continue to lose our matches, though the margins of our defeats may improve marginally. For those who do not agree with me, please open the website www.cricket.org and see our cricketing statistics and compare with other test playing countries. Statistics never lie and statistics show there is not even a ray of hope in the very clouded sky of Bangladesh cricket. Mr. Whatmore had some impact on our team, teaching our cricketers what test cricket is about, playing the ball with a straight bat and bowling at the wickets. These days, on a well-prepared track, any club, county, provincial team can be expected to perform with the bat the way our cricketers have performed in Pakistan at least once in a long while.

Also, we must not forget that Pakistan played with a new team against Bangladesh. However, test cricket is about consistency and we are still nowhere from being consistent. And, who retained this Captain? He neither bowls nor bats and is the team's poorest fielder. If cricket ever, like tennis team events, has a non-playing captain, we can think of bringing Mahmud back. Till then, he should be banished from the test arena for good. Finally, we have, after the English series, maintained our 100 per cent defeat record intact if we overlook one draw that we achieved by divine intervention.