Tigers lose
One Bengali newspaper has rightly epitomized the defeat of Bangladesh cricket team, or the so-called "Tigers", at the hands of an amateurish Irish cricket team with the news title "Bagher Garjon Noy, Biraler Mew Mew". What a shame and what an embarrassment for the cricket lovers and for the nation as a whole! And it is nothing new, it has been happening at regular intervals.
Is there any accountability of the country's cricket authorities? The question is who is to blame for such a disgraceful defeat? The main culprit, in my view, is the selection committee. Time and again they have come up with the wrong selection, particularly the selection of the captain and the wicketkeeper. Ashraful as a captain has been a super flop all through, not only in international cricket, but also in domestic cricket and even in the trial matches where his compatriots such as Shakib-Al-Hasan and Mashrafee excelled over him. Ashraful, by nature, is a highly emotional guy who always acts or reacts on impulses and whims.
He is not a calculative strategist and not at all a cool customer, which are the basic attributes to become a captain of a cricket team. Mushfiq, the diminutive wicketkeeper, despite all his enthusiasm and dedication for the team, cannot be an ideal wicketkeeper for an international and Test playing nation's cricket team. In every international cricket match, he would certainly miss one or two easy stumping chances or diving catches. This happened in the last India-Bangladesh T-20 match. These are so simple and so obvious that anybody who follows Bangladesh cricket a little bit knows these weaknesses of the Bangladesh cricket team, but alas it seems our selection committee doesn't understand these! How Mr. Shafiqul Hira, who with the team has witnessed most of the recent defeats, was allowed to continue as the manager of the team for so many consecutive series is also unclear. Lets' be objective and vocal about the cricket authorities' incompetence to save cricket.
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