[Baundule]

Siddons' contribution to our 'success' in the test arena is highly overrated. We had some good innings from Golla, Ashraful, Bulbul, Pilot and a few others around Basher in the pre-Siddons era. And we had the same this time around from Junaed, Rahim, Riyadh around Shakib and Tamim. Shakib and Tamim were already better (in terms of ability) players than the previous generation. SIddons' job with them was pretty easy, he did not have to CREATE them. As a team, we have failed to sustain pressure. We did play close matches before (Multan, Fatulla...) and we did play a few in Siddons' time as well. We do still lose miserably from a position of advantage.

The effect of all our 'improvement' myth is still the same; big teams do not think us as a threat in the test arena.