Tigers trounced
Sami Abedin, California, USA
There seems to be no end to how low our cricket team can sink in the arena of Test cricket. Their complete lack of will to win and the bad habit of making the same mistakes over and over again, year after year, bring shame to the nation and the sport. They have lost all the goodwill generated from the last World Cup and are very firmly back to their old status of minnows. They cannot even last the first session of the first day of a Test match, as proved by their 89 and 62 all out scores.To preserve the integrity of the game, the BCB should suspend all overseas Test tours for at least the next three years and use the time to overhaul and rebuild the domestic cricket infrastructure. We must first develop a competitive and viable domestic first class cricket competition. This will allow us to be more competitive in the Test sphere. Only after the team starts winning (yes, winning) at home on a regular basis, should they be allowed to compete abroad. Continuing with catastrophic tours like the on-going one in Sri Lanka will only further embarrass the nation and call into question our very Test status. Suspension of foreign tours may hinder some BCB officials' foreign jaunts but will preserve the Test status of Bangladesh. One last thing, if nothing else, can we please drop Shahriar Nafees and Habibul Bashar. They have had enough opportunities to regain both their confidence and form and have been consistently useless. It is time for someone else to get an opportunity. Only God knows what " influence" Bashar and Nafees have on the BCB that they cannot be dropped. Bangladesh should make the hard decisions or give up the Test status. Right now, the Tigers are an embarrassment to the game of cricket.
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