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Look up, Tigers

Mohammad ISAM
An international team cannot just lose five one-day matches in a row at the blink of an eye. Essentially, it takes five days and fifty wickets and a thousand runs and a few missed catches before a group of individuals are trounced so badly. Basically, a lot has to go wrong before you can lose every match on a tour.
In Pakistan, everything went wrong for Bangladesh from predictably calamitous batting to the previously reliable bowling and fielding.
Batsmen played one poor shot after another and the only remedy that was on offer for this main headache' was to remove the head temporarily. There were not many bowling options and if there was an option available for poor fielding, it would have been applied too. Then again, it is hard to comprehend that the same individuals were so different during and before last year's World Cup. Even in the Twenty20World Championship, cricket greats were touting Bangladesh as a dangerous side in the shorter forms of cricket. Almost the same set of individuals now look bankrupt and totally out of place in international cricket.
Batsmen now play like millionaires, let alone reading the delivery's line and length, they play shots regardless of circumstances. Fielding and bowling, our pride and saviours during hard times, have also taken a sharp downturn. Anyone who understands the nuances of the game would point to a team's fielding as the gauge that measures its mood.
All these point towards one thing: attitude. Yes, this is something that has taken a massive beating over the past 12 months or so. One would agree that too many lost games never help a team's cause but it could be the other way around too. A team lose when they play badly and, from a pragmatic point of view, have poor attitude towards their duty to the team and the game.
So when the winning attitude turns south, one perceives the
lack of leadership in the team's set-up. Clearly, that is the missing link and this is where Bangladesh has gone a few steps back after the 2007 World Cup.
It is now fair to say that Mohammad Ashraful's failings as captain has affected his batting. It is no rocket science that the pocket dynamo needs a clear mind to play his game. During this stint, Ashraful has produced a few good knocks and if he is, God forbids, dropped for a lack of leadership qualities, it will be a big blow for the future plans that are being mentioned at every given media opportunity.
It is no secret that the coaching staff has a massive role in our national set-up and it is bizarre to see them aim lower than the players.
Let's face it, no player in this side can claim to be a senior and if the team curve has to improve, someone has to put his hands up and take responsibility of the current situation and later, that individual can take all the credit for the good days, that surely lay ahead.