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Troubles begin at home

Sports Reporter
When the Bangladesh Cricket League began last year, it was described as the next big step to change Bangladesh's woeful record in longer version cricket. But two seasons on, the league, the last two rounds of which were hurriedly scheduled by the BCB, at odds with its main aim, displays exactly why the national team struggles in Test cricket.
The first two days of the finals of the BCL, if anything at all, clearly displayed the batsmen's lack of application. A good batting track at Mirpur, with a hint of extra bounce being the only possible threat, saw both teams crumble twice in the space of two days.
The Nasir Hossain-led BCB North Zone were bundled out for 235 yesterday, following Prime Bank South Zone's 271 the previous day. If South Zone's players seemed overawed against the slow left-armers on Friday, then North Zone's players were most definitely stunned by some short-of-a-length bowling from Al-Amin Hossain.
Al-Amin first got Junaid Siddique and then removed Naeem Islam and Myshukur Rahman in consecutive overs. His strategy to attack could have been an inverse reaction to North Zone's defensive approach; they were going 1.82 runs per over in the middle.
The manner in which some of the batsmen got out yesterday led many to compare the innings to Bangladesh's first Test against Sri Lanka earlier this year, where they were undone by extra bounce.
While Al-Amin no doubt bowled with aggression, one felt that the batsmen could have done a lot better than just nervously putting bat to ball or attempting voracious pull shots. The concern was best put by North Zone's batting coach Wahidul Gani. "If there was another pacer from the other side bowling these bouncers then we would
have been bowled out for 180 maybe. The overall batting standards have been poor," said Gani.
The only batsman, who seemed in his comfort zone yesterday was Nasir Hossain. He uncharacteristically took his time to get set and a majority of his ten boundaries came in front of the wicket.
However with wickets falling at the other end, Nasir came under pressure and attempted an audacious upper cut against Shohag Gazi, only to get caught at first slip.
"I thought it was the right thing to do because at the other end there was a left handed tailender and Gazi was bowling. I wanted to take couples instead of singles."
With South Zone 36 runs ahead, it is still anyone's game. In fact, the champions may be declared as soon as Sunday evening or Monday morning. The bigger and the seemingly 'boring' questions of whether a Bangladeshi batsman can ever successfully overcome the minimum of threats on a wicket or if the board can ever create a robust domestic calendar that they can stick to ever}’ year, will remain.