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18 June 2005, 18:00 PM
LETTERS TO THE EDITOR
By Alfaz Tarafder Pallabi, Mirpur Dhaka-1216
18 June 2005, 18:00 PM
I fully endorse the views expressed by Architect Dr Nizamuddin Ahmed in his exclusive write-up under the above caption published on June 3, 2005. Dr Ahmed's article, laden with facts and figures from the history of cricket, amply prove that Bangladesh as a Test playing nation has done little or nothing so far to be subjected to a state of humiliation by former cricket stalwarts. The Tigers' defeat at Lord's against England recently by an innings and 261 runs is not that much derogatory and insulting as it had been in 1938 when today's vigorous Australia suffered the shocking defeat by an innings and 579 runs against England.

The orchestrated howling against our Test status by the cricket heroes of previous years obviously suggest that they might have rightly sensed some quantum of silver lining across the dark clouds over our head at the moment. I believe, cricket personalities like Richie Benaud, Kim Hughes, Ian Botham, Shane Warne and even Javed Miandad are adept in future telling and they are seemingly scared of being humiliated back by the wounded Tigers some day somewhere in the field.

The days are not far off when our youngsters like Mortuza, Moshfiqur Rahim, Aftab Ahmad, Nafis Iqbal, Enamul Junior, Razzak and even the up-coming ones like Golam Rahman, Farhad Reza, Shamsur Rahman, Hasanuzzaman and Arafat would don the headlines of the media world.

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