As Tino Best scythed through the Bangladesh top order, I was reminded of Mohsin Kamal doing the same thing more than twenty five years ago, albeit in a one day match playing for PIA XI against Bangladesh at Dhaka's National Stadium.Bangladesh cricket despite their Test and ODI status acquired since then have yet to learn the art of holding on in face of high speed bowling.For Bangladesh to become a good test side, they must first learn to play attritional cricket.They must also learn to play to their strength.There is no way they can defeat the West Indies on a batting wicket.What they can hope is to have a turner and then give their spinners adequate time and their batsmen can play Permaul and Narine better than they can play Best.
On a batting friendly wicket, once runs are scored quick bowling can be dangerous as India found out in 1980-81 against Imran Khan.
Bangladesh deserve credit for putting up a brave fight and Sammy needs to be congratulated for his early declaration which resulted in a close match and a result inspite of the two teams scoring more than Five hundred in the first innings.Bangladesh must learn that scoring at four an over can work against you as that leaves the opposition enough time to change things over the second time.
Test Match cricket appears to be doing pretty well at the moment.If it had not rained in Brisbane, their would have been a result and England face the prospect of batting over another day and a half to draw and there India's innings must be lesson for Bangladesh. Pujara, Yuvaraj and Aswin were able to slow down the innings so that after scoring 521, prospect of losing becomes remote.
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