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Tigers easy prey

Bishwajit Roy
"We are not going to be easy prey for New Zealand this time". The man who made this comment was none other than our national cricket captain Mohammad Ashraful and of course it was said before the series.
Now that the series is over and everybody knows what happened Down Under, don't bother to quiz Ashraful and Co when they return to Dhaka on Friday. It's better to ask his New Zealand counterpart Daniel Vettori whose answer would be 'snapping up the Tigers is as easy as eating a pie'.
A different set of Tigers they may be, but the result was no different from the tour of 2001. The just concluded series, in terms of outcome, was even worse in a sense that the Tigers' reputation as an improving one-day side'was also tarnished.
The outcomes in the last two series in Sri Lanka and New Zealand, though always tricky places for visitors, raise the most important question of whether the national cricketers have realise the standard of the international cricket
The management can provide the best possible facilities and a coach may come up with latest in cricket training, but it is ultimately the players who can only lift the pride of a nation on the field.
But were there any determination in the players during the tour? From what we can say is that they tried their best but failed. We definitely get a negative answer in this question otherwise how is it possible that we saw only six half-centuries in three one-day internationals and two Tests in the entire series. It is terrible that a team offered the same tilings as they did six years back
It is always frustrating to see the team losing but here the result is not main concern rather the lack of application from the Tigers which was most irritating for any cricket lover.
When a team batted for 46.1 overs and 83.1 overs in the first Test and then 45.3 overs and 47 overs in the second Test, there were less to say about what kind of cricket played by the Tigers. How one could expect more when only three half-centuries were made in two Tests and don't forget that two of them came from debutant Tamim Iqbal besides the other one that came from newcomer Zunacd
Siddiqui.
Is it longer-version cricket then, when a team arc only able to cross the 150-mark once in four innings?
It is better not to say more about the inconsistency about our most talented batsman — Mohammad Ashraful -- who had another one-innings series as the right-hander went into hibernation after a sparkling 70 in the first one-dayer.
We can see what the (near) future has for us by looking at one of our promising players in Mushfiqur Rahim. Why is Mushfiqur in the team ahead of veteran Khaled Mashud? The answer was his batting ability. But you have to be more than romantic to get something positive when a batsman has scored only 25 runs in seven innings.
Actually the fact is that you have to have great patience to. once again, go through the batting and bowling averages of the Tigers in the series because only one playerTamim Iqbal would love to look back at it.
There was a lot of confusion whether the dashing left-hander could* cope with the approach of Test cricket but his 152 in three innings at an average of 50.6 proved many people wrong. It was a brilliant trip for the Chittagonian as he was also the top scorer with 106 runs at the average of 35.33 in the three-match one-day series.
The selection of the Test team also raised eyebrows, as it was not clear why the management sent TUshar Imran home after the one-day series and didn't give grafter Rajin Saleh a chance.
The team management tried with Aftab Ahmed but the dashing batsman was horrible in his Test return with 30 from four outings.
If die batsmen need inspiration to play for Bangladesh, then they should go no further but have a long talk with their bowlers, who did what they could do best: bowl out the opposition; they did it in New Zealand twice.