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Mahmud: A great captain
As Bangladesh team is losing matches one after another, many of us have failed to notice the achievements of the present captain of our national cricket team. For them I have listed his great records below.
1. Mahmud had been the most expensive cricket player in the history of Test cricket for quite some time. His bowling average was over 450 before going to Pakistan lately.
2. Presently Mahmud's Test batting average is 10.88 and bowling average is over 50, which made him the worst recognised batsman and worst specialist bowler in the Bangladesh squad. He is, however, the worst fielder in the team. Considering all these facts he is the worst player of our team but still he is the captain, which is unmatchable. So, that itself is a record too.
3. Our beloved captain is the shortest pacer in the world, which is also a record.
We guess Mahmud wants to make some other records too. Such as:
a) He wants to have his name in the record book for getting dismissed in the silliest ways most of the times. (b) He wants to become the longest awaited captain. BCB has come forward for Captain Khaled Mahmud so that his above-mentioned targets also get fulfilled. We all should support him so that he can accomplish these successes too and bring glory to Bangladesh cricket.
Shahida Islam
IUBC
Choosing best captain for the team
The great Sunil Gavaskar asked Athar Ali Khan, when he came to Dhaka with the ESPN STAR team, to comment on the TVS Cup Tri-Series(between Bangladesh, India and South Africa), "Why is Khaled Mahmud in the side? Is he a bowler, a batsman or an all-rounder?
As far as I am concerned, I guess he's in the side because he's the captain." That statement was made in April this year. It has been seven months since Khaled Mahmud has taken over the leadership role from Khaled Mashud, who resigned after the World Cup debacle.
Well, except some occasional titbits from our skipper in Pakistan, the statement of the great Sunny still remains intact, because Mahmud has not been able to prove his critics wrong. This I say with due respect to Mahmud, who has inspired us to the win against Pakistan in 1999.
I feel he has had too many failures to remain in the squad. In the 1st ODI against England in Chittagong, he promoted himself to No 6, but only to nick the ball straight into the wicket keeper's gloves and score a miserable 2-ball duck. And, when it came to bowling, the so-called bowler-all rounder did not even bowl a single ball. If a player gets you scores of 0 and1 and does not bowl (well, if he does, he goes for over 6 runs each over without wickets), why is he in the team?
According to my opinion, the squad should be finalised first, i.e., the best 11(or 15) by the selectors, and the best possible captain should be chosen from that squad, not vice-a- versa. Nine months of continuos failure is enough for a leader to show him the exit door, and bring a new skipper in.
Aranya Syed
Dhaka, Bangladesh