Well…after the Pakistan ODI tour..I don’t have much to say. I think we are becoming numb to these demoralizing defeats one after another and more frighteningly our cricketers too. I think it was a disaster to make Ashraful the captain of the team immediately after the world cup 2007. I am not saying this because hindsight is 20/20. Actually I had the same opinion at that time and I wish I started my blog at that time to prove my point.
Ash is no captaincy material, period. He is extremely talented and gifted batsman, but no captain. He is a simple, ordinary man. To be a skillful leader, you need certain kind of charisma and sophistication which Ashraful seriously lacks.
While Ashraful’s batting talent has never been in doubt, we have seen only glimpses of it so far. His consistency in producing big scores is ordinary at best. It would have been good idea to leave our best batsman to solely concentrate on marshalling his batting skills rather than overburdening with captaincy duties. Unlike other sports, a captain in cricket always has a much active and burdensome role to play.
So, immediate solution: remove Ashraful and save Ashraful, save Bangladesh cricket team.
When our high profile cricket team is humiliating us abroad, very low profile economics students of Dhaka university brought us lots of pride from abroad. I was fortunate enough to travel to Delhi, India while our students participated in the 5th South Asian Economics Students Meet (SAESM). It’s a conference cum competition among the undergraduate economics students from the reputed universities of South Asia like Delhi University, Lahore University of Management Sciences (LUMS), Colombo University to name a few. It has grown up to be a prestigious event sponsored by World Bank, ILO and other big time organizations. Dhaka university won three out of eight awards : two in paper presentation category and one in the budding economist competition and won lavish praise from all quarters for their stellar performance.
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