Editorial
Gold and silver in cricket
A saving grace for Bangladesh in the Asian Games
Our persistence with cricket at all levels is paying dividends. On the back of the national team's inspiring series victory over New Zealand, our second string side has won a gold medal in the Guangzhou Asian Games. And, of the three medals won by Bangladeshi participants in altogether 18 disciplines, two came from cricket itself. Apart from the gold in the men segment, our women cricketers came out runner-up bagging a silver among the women cricket teams.
Congratulations to our Asian gold winners in cricket. Having vanquished a strong side in Sri Lanka, Bangladesh won the finals against an upcoming and dour Afghan team from a war-torn country. The five-wicket Bangladesh victory over Afghanistan was scripted by teamwork as all triumphs are in the end, but contributions that made the difference came from batters Shabbir Rahman and Naeem Islam.
Though India did not enter a team, the competition nonetheless was rather broad based with nine teams participating. It may have been anything but world standard, still emerging at the top of the table took considerable grit and skill. We think, it is yet another step towards acquiring consistency of performance and falling into a winning groove which have so long deluded us.
Our under-nineteens have been testing their skills with fiercely competitive sides and doing reasonably well with signs of talent flashed across. So, altogether we are emerging from a merely cricket-loving nation to a cricketing one whose full potential will only be realised depending on our success in taking things forward from here.
There must be many more first class cricket competitions at the domestic level on a regular basis -- at the inter-school, inter-college, inter-university levels aside from those on the inter-district format. There is no short-cut to breeding talent and grooming cricketers of class except through organising more competitions and giving more exposure to our cricketing side overseas. The way forward is through better administration, organisation, improved facilities and acquisition of techniques for all-round skill development.
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