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Originally Posted by Prime
Didn't we drop or showed the door to most of the experienced cricketers (Rafique, Bashar, Pilot, JO..) for youth movement. .
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You raised a good point to discuss.
It depends what type of experienced players you are talking and really what they bring into the table.
Just face it, none of our experienced players are Tendulker/Ganguly/Akram caliber players. Few years ago our u-19 coach (mcInes) said in this website that he doesn’t want our ex-national players anywhere near his under-19 players, and he said it for reasons. You are exposing them to bad traits.
Now see the recent older players:
Rafiq can help them with our young spinners but on the other hand he have too much hatred towards the management, they cannot trust him. Also his communication and teamwork skills are also questionable, even though personally he may be very good person.
Bashar has the mentor mentality, but his own form is a big question mark. Too much exposed to defeat and thereby lost his fighting mentality. Plus I don't know what he can teach to the kids that really will help them.
Pilot can teach the young WKs, but will he? He didn't helped Rahim when they were both together. He didn't took the young kid under his arm like old stars supposed to do. He saw him as competator and distanced himslef and treated him as enemy. He is not a typical mentor type.
The furthest a young batsman can stay from Ashraful the better it is. Remember when Aftab came? He used to be in the mold of a solid batsman when he first came to the national team. Now he is a duplicate of Ashraful in-terms of attitude. Why is that? Why he suddenly changed? How much do you think it has influence of Ashraful and watching how fans/management/media admire Ashraful's reckless batting? He smelled the path to stardom, and he followed that path. Ashraful is riding solely based on his talent. Aftab is doing the same. Ashraful will teach exactly opposite what the coach will try to teach the young players in the team.
So I don't see much harm if the more experienced players exit our team sooner than later. The new breed of players like Sakib, Tamim, Junaid, Shahadat, Farhad, Riad are our future. The less they are exposed to bad habits the better will be their chance to succeed