Bangladesh cricket team lost the first Test against England at Lord's by a big margin. It was a shameful performance, indeed. We expected some show of fight from our boys but things were completely different. We all know Bangladesh has been struggling since entering the Test arena. We beat Zimbabwe and that is our only mentionable success. But what the English print media is writing about us and our cricket is not expected at all. They reportedly wrote that Bangladesh cricket team should not have been allowed to come anywhere near the Lord's. Besides throwing light on Bangladesh's inability to play good cricket, some dailies brought irrelevant issues such as extreme poverty of Bangladesh. They said that Bangladesh is a country where on an average people do not earn even one dollar per day. So how can they play cricket? The approach of the English media thus does not uphold the standard of journalism. They just poured out their heart's bitterness against Bangladesh.But English journalists must reckon that England itself won only one ODI tournament (if I am not wrong) in the history of one day cricket and that the World Cup still eludes them. And just a few months back, they were the number six Test playing nation in ICC ranking table. So, English people! you should not be proud of your cricket at least!
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