Samir, there is a thing called natural progress. Football was the dominant sport in Bangladesh until 1997. After the win against Kenya in the ICC trophy final, cricket replaced football. Kids getting involved more in cricket means we used to get more and more natural talent compared to the times of Nannu, Bulbul and Akram. Getting the test status has been a huge boost. The natural ability of the likes of Tamim, Shakib or Sabbir is much superior than the old generation. From that perspective Siddons is the luckiest one of our coaches. If he could used the resources properly, we would not need to compare his success through stats of the Whatmore era.
The players get due credit for taking us to the #8 position; but it is also a result of the demise of WI and Zimbabwe and ICC's reluctance to give us more games against quality oppositions.
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