With our fan-base and the popularity of cricket in recent years, I am not very happy with the progress we have made during the past 4 years. If we look at the graph provided by Zunaed bhai, there is a reasonable increase in the team total between match 90 and 150/160 (approximately between 2003 and 2007). During the last 4 years, we have played most of our matches against declining teams and still we do score about 230 runs (only 10 runs more than the 2007 standard) per innings. If we call it a progress, we have certainly failed to take any batting-made-easy rules into our advantage.
The graph also shows we had to fight against the decline to make those improvements after 2003, while in 2007 we had a much better starting point. If we do not like to be tagged as minnows, we certainly need better performance.
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