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Mushfiq was so bad that it prompted one of the comms to call him witness (said something along the lines of you've to have your wits about you when captaining a test match). It was when the English were 3 wickets down, struggling against spin, and Mushy decided to release pressure by introducing Rabbi. Equally flabbergasting was when he set a defensive field for Rabbi. These are shocking things that no one else (including school level cricketers) does.

And then, he kept bowling Miraz and Shakib from the wrong side of the wicket. An offspinner bowling over the wicket to a left-hander and thus taking the offie's advantage away - it was ridiculous. That drastically reduced the chance of an LBW, and the angle made it easier for Moeen to bat. He was struggling till then and went from struggling to hitting boundaries. Again, one of the comms made a comment about getting rudimentary things wrong. After the odd, failed experiment, the bowlers bowled to their advantage again. But an int'l level cricketer shouldn't need trial and error to figure out what advantageous for an offie to an left-hander.

And of course, he kept bowling the same bowlers even when they were tired. Made Shakib bowl a marathon spell, and Shakib had to bowl poorly and give away boundaries for 2-3 overs before he took him off. All the while, he had Taijul available. Bowled Miraz for 10-12 overs in a row. And didn't bowl Sabbir.

Didn't review when Moeen was out when he was right behind the stumps, and I didn't see him asking Miraz for his opinion. Ridiculous captaincy. Even if it's a 50-50 (odds should've been higher given he was right behind the stumps), you take the review when you get two every session or two.

About attacking field placements, your standards must be very low (at a dafuq, what are you smoking level) if you're hailing a captain for setting an attacking test field with that pitch when we were spinning the ball and the English were struggling that much. That wouldn't make sense to not do even for Mushfiq.