Will Bangladesh ever be good?

[GIMH]

Why was Shane Warne banned?

Couldn't find any on ban announcements threads

OS multi

 

[morgieb]

Why was Shane Warne banned?

Couldn't find any on ban announcements threads

Ask Richard.

 

[insa80]

Yeah well trying their best to climb up to the steep road of international cricket competing with the team that had established themselves before some of the Bangladeshi players were even born.

Had a very rough time but in recent days we have produced a good set of players with evolved attacking mentality suitable for modern day cricket.

Still have a long way to go and it's not going to be easy but so far I feel like we are on the right track.

Best part is, now every single match we play with a belief that we can win and it's not exaggerated.

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[harsh.ag]

Yeah well trying their best to climb up to the steep road of international cricket competing with the team that had established themselves before some of the Bangladeshi players were even born.

Had a very rough time but in recent days we have produced a good set of players with evolved attacking mentality suitable for modern day cricket.

Still have a long way to go and it's not going to be easy but so far I feel like we are on the right track.

Best part is, now every single match we play with a belief that we can win and it's not exaggerated.

Forgotten 1971, have we?

 

[indiaholic]

Why a '71 question here?

 

[Burgey]

No

 

[Black_Warrior]

Says the guy whose team chickened out of playing the tigers at their den Not once but twice.

 

[Pratters]

100 million people - most of whom are cricket-mad, I believe. That's one large talent pool. Coaching and cricket infrastructure is only getting better. Wouldn't be all too surprised if they qualified for the super eights at the WC, actually - competition is an Indian side who they've beaten before and Sri Lanka, who are notoriously poor tourists. Only problem is that their top-order needs to be able to handle true pace...

Comment made before they actually defeated India in the World Cup in 2007. Gem.

 

[Pratters]

Langeveldt,
Your surmise that population is irrelevant and talent spotting and cultivation is the key is bang on target.
However, your prediction that Bangladesh would never improve to become a worldbeater rests on the incorrect assumption that living condition in Bangladesh ( or the subcontinent) would forever remain at a lower level than Australia or Britain.
It doesnt take into account the fact that all the subcontinental economies are improving at a faster pace than Australia/England ( demonstrated by growth %) and thus, sometime in the future ( i dunno 50-100 years), they will catch-up or overtake OZ/England in living standards and thus by extension, sophistication in talent-spotting and nurturing.

How will India and Bangladesh living standards overtake Australia and England when the poor keeps rising..

 

[G.I.Joe]

How will India and Bangladesh living standards overtake Australia and England when the poor keeps rising..

If you dump all the poor folk from the SC into Australia/England, would the standard of their international team go down/up/remain the same?

 

[Pratters]

I didn't make the connection between living standard and the cricket team.

 

[G.I.Joe]

My bad.

You still suck though.

 

[Pratters]

Are you the school bully?

 

[G.I.Joe]

#thuglife

 

[Burgey]

Says the guy whose team chickened out of playing the tigers at their den Not once but twice.

I know. People used to say the same thing about Australia chickening out of tours to Pakistan. "They should go, everyone else is, no one would target cricketers because the sport is so popular in that part of the world." yada yada yada.

 

[Black_Warrior]

I know. People used to say the same thing about Australia chickening out of tours to Pakistan. "They should go, everyone else is, no one would target cricketers because the sport is so popular in that part of the world." yada yada yada.

But after the last thrashing at a neutral venue, they might chicken' out of UAE too now.

 

[nightprowler10]

I know. People used to say the same thing about Australia chickening out of tours to Pakistan. "They should go, everyone else is, no one would target cricketers because the sport is so popular in that part of the world." yada yada yada.

No one ever proved that the attackers knew those Sri Lankans were cricketers.

 

[Gob]

No one ever proved that the attackers knew those Sri Lankans were cricketers.

Wut?

 

[Burgey]

No one ever proved that the attackers knew those Sri Lankans were cricketers.

Didn't know that's. All the more reason to listen pretty carefully to security warnings I suppose.

 

[nightprowler10]

Didn't know that's. All the more reason to listen pretty carefully to security warnings I suppose.

I agree. If the attackers had paid attention we wouldn't be in this mess now.