mr Imtiaz, I can relate to your insights. you might be right, under the circumstances, there is not much difference between specialist batsman and tid-bits players. And may be Whatmore is aware of that...
another thing is woth exploring, is it only the Temparament or ability is also a factor. You must have observed our alarming incpability in hitting boundaries.. Ashraful just cannot stay there long, I have mixed feelings about Javed Omar, he is always aslow coach, knd of player wu do not want to have in one ayers, but, on the other side, he cannot even bat out over 50 overs. so to have him in the line up should not harm.
Did u ask about Meherab hossain? more of a disciplinary case, he had stroke and good timing, but mone hoy na ar parbe....
to me another player remain an enigma.. Rana. He opened in that fateful third one dayers (in Zim) and managed 65 or so, and then in the very next series he was dscribed as someone who just does not have the technique to open!!! but the fact remain that our openers hardly score fifties.. what i mean is it is not clear what is actual ability is.. I heard about Sunny Gavaskar's comment that "he looks like getting out in every delivery.."
coming back to the basic point: do we have single OK (let alone good) ODI batsman (against good bowling, not scotland/ireland/USA)?
as far as ability (ONLY) is concerned: Ashraful, Kapali and may be Nafis can be the closest... But the first two lack consistency..
so, we have to have patience..there is still a long way to go...
*** can anyone send us the article by Chris Martin Jenkins where he advocated demotion for both Bangladesh and Zimbabwe?
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