And the notion that seniors took a long time to establish themselves is not entirely true.
Shakib was the consistent performer from 2007 WC. Either bat or ball, he was the most consistent player out of any.
Mashrafi was the best seamer despite his injuries. Shahadat was the only other automatic choice for a brief period. Maybe before Fizz came in, Mashrafi was the consistent seamer and was never dropped due to performance.
Tamim was erratic but still produced match winning performances. His back to back English epic, performances in NZ with JS were more than any of the juniors ever achieved. There was a reason he had 15+ opening partners who all faded. There were talks of him being dropped and he came back and scored 4 half centuries in a row. Then during the WC and he scored that crucial century against Scotland.
Now moving on to Riyad. He was a match winner in the beginning. Brought our historic away series against WI in 2009-10 I believe. Then he became a sissy and was rightfully dropped.
Finally this description only fits for Mushy. He was debuted at such a young age that he took forever to establish himself. He failed repeatedly. But the team stuck with him. And he became the best batsmen in the team (arguably after Tamim)
A) so it is wildly inaccurate when you say seniors took their to establish. It only describes Mushy. Not even for Riyad who was dropped, asked back, and dropped again.
b) the seniors came in without any proper system. Mash bowled fast and he very soon he became the opening bowler of a test team. Shakib was a bowler mostly in his bksp days. Tamim had the tag of explosive hitter. These kids spent some time with McInnes and very soon found themselves representing the national team.
c) meanwhile anamul, soumya, sabbir, miraz had much better preparation going up. They were part of HP team. A team. Toured overseas. Taskin/Miraz was earmarked for a long time and proper nurture was given to them and then slowly was drafted in. For example, miraz only played home test in the beginning. But when the seniors came in they were asked to play all format in all conditions.
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