Tigers strike

Rafiqul Islam Rime, Agrabad, Chittagong

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Bangladeshi cricketers have finally proved their worth whitewashing the West Indians in both Test and the one dayers recently. They've done it on the West Indian fields and this epoch making victory against any team has created history for our cricket. Players like Shakib, Razzak, Tanim and others showed a high profile cricketing excellence and made the opponents subdued. We as a nation have found huge raison d'être to cheer up ourselves, to renew our belief /faith that yes we too can --- our boys do have the strength-- beat any team under any circumstances. All that they need to have is a steady mindset based on practice, patience and temperament. However, in the wake of an uproar from some critics that the team that our cricketers whitewashed was a second class team, we would inform them that the West Indian team is one of the leading teams that has a deep-rooted culture which has so far produced many great cricketers. The bottom line, however, is that we don't have to overreact to this achievement that the Tigers have brought about, neither do we have to undermine them --- let's go ahead! Three cheers for our booming cricketers!