Shaking up Test Cricket: Cricinfo surveys justification of Bangladesh’s Test Status

[babubangla]

Cricinfo is conducting a survey to gather public opinion on justification of Bangladesh and Zimbabwe’s test status and possible solution to uphold the standard of test cricket.

The preamble of the survey is as follows:
One of the continuing debates of our times revolves around Zimbabwe and Bangladesh: do they deserve to play Test cricket? Matches involving them playing other Test teams are invariably no-contests, and Bangladesh, when they played in India's Duleep Trophy last year, found even India's first-class teams tough to cope with. Were they given Test status too soon? Should they have been eased into the game by playing ‘A’ teams of other countries first?

Zimbabwe's case raises different questions. A combination of circumstances has made them so weak that they're now on a similar level to Bangladesh. So what should be done? Should they be stripped of Test status? On what basis? Should that basis apply to other teams? And if they should retain Test status, should any team that comes up to their standard be given Test status?

What does being a Test team mean anyway?

We invite you to log in below and take part in a survey we are conducting to find out what our readers feel about this issue. It will only take five minutes of your time, and the collective voice of our readers, we hope, will count for something in the world of cricket. Be a part of the change you wish to see.

The poll requires registration at http://www.cricinfo.com/WCIregister/...istration.html

The question asked in the poll may be directly accessible at http://www.cricinfo.com/db/INTERACTI...VEY/ZIM-BDESH/


Edited on, September 19, 2005, 2:07 PM GMT, by babubangla.

[Ahmed_B]

Are you talking about this poll?.....

Stand up for and support Bangladesh cricket

[rudro]

I did and I request all others in this forum to do so. Please encourage your friends as well.

Just for curiosity, what percentage of people in Bangladesh have access to internet? Don't think the number will be healthy. In that case, we are going to be doomed in the survey by alite countries.

[Faisal]

i just did too.... hope all bangladeshi fan will do too..

Edited on, September 19, 2005, 4:09 PM GMT, by Faisal.

[amim]

Good idead would be to use enter multiple comments from one family. If there are 5 members in your family then enter 5 comments instead of just one to support the cause.

We know our weaknesses but why whould we deny Shahadat at his age to express his initial bursts against the Srilankan top order and claim 2 early wickets and given that its only his 3rd test with experience he will mature as a bowler.

If you have static IP, then restart the your PC after entering your comments and try to enter it from the same ip address. It depends on how cricinfo survey submission page was designed. If its relying on sessions than restarting PC or even exiting the browser and cleaning all the temp. internet files and thus deleting the cookies should do. But it they are recording IP addresses then static IP users cant enter it more than once. In that case we will have the dynamic ip users ...Most cable, DSL and all dialup users are on DHCP ( dynamic ip). So once you enter you comment then go to command prompt in your windows and the release your ip address and renew your ip address. Since its DHCP enabled, it will assign you with a different ip address each time. So thats how we can support our BD team. Glimpses of talent every now and then does show that we can play well at this level. Consistency will come in to effect one day InshaAllah.