The visiting South Africa won the second Test by an innings and 273runs on Thursday. Bangladesh follow on with two all outs (16 wickets fell in one day). Tiger captain Nazmul Hossain Shanto could not hide his disappointment after such a disaster in the batting heaven. Pointing to the failure of the batters, he frankly said, "If it continues like this, the result will be like this".
South Africa was expected to turn around the Test series on home soil, just departed. The Africans embarked on the tour of Bangladesh with a relatively less experienced team. Regular captain Temba Bavuma was also absent. But in this series too, the visitors gave a shame to Bangladesh. Three Proteas batsmen scored their first career Test centuries. Pacer Kagiso Rabada also made a feat in bowling.
Bangladesh left the field with a 7-wicket defeat in the first Test of the series in Mirpur. Nazmul Hossain Shanta's team completed the sixteenth cycle of failure by being whitewashed by an innings and a loss of 273 runs in Chittagong Test yesterday. Although almost two eras of debut in Test cricket are completed, Bangladesh is still only a young nation.
Analyzing the results of the last four Tests, it can be seen that Bangladesh is unable to get out of the losing circle due to several reasons.
Test cricket temperament
Usually, one of the reasons behind the big teams in the world doing well in Test cricket is their endurance. To bat well in Test cricket, one must play session by session. After doing well in one session of the day, losing wickets quickly in another session makes it difficult to score big runs. This problem is strongly seen for the Bangladesh team. Country batters in particular have this problem. Meanwhile, the bowlers cannot take advantage unless the wicket is a bit bowling-friendly.
If you look at Mehedi Hasan Miraj in the Chittagong Test, this becomes clear. The Tiger spinner spent 171 runs without picking up any wickets in 39 overs. Basically the Bangladeshi bowlers failed to bowl in good places continuously. A similar picture emerged for the pacers. Compared to that, pacers have done better on foreign soil. The recent Pakistan and India series is an example of this.
Top order failure
One thing is very active in the country's cricket. Bangladesh started batting after two or three batsmen departed. The main reason behind the failure is the failure of the top order. No one is able to take advantage of the opening or one down for a long time.
In the last four matches, that picture has become even clearer. Zakir Hasan, Sadman Islam, Mahmudul Hasan Joy are failing to reciprocate the trust. In one innings he managed to score some runs, but in the next three innings he could not stand.
As Shanto admits, it has been like this for a long time. If there is no partnership from the top order in Tests, it is very difficult for the next batsmen. I don't know what the top batsmen think or prepare. But if it continues like this, the result will be like this.
Lack of consistency
Consistency is the most important thing in cricket. Of course, consistency is needed in all aspects of life. That lack of consistency is evident in all cricketers.
Opener Sadman Islam scored a fifty in one match of the last four Tests. 1 fifty in the last 8 innings of an opener, which shows the extent of the lack of consistency. Same is the case with the batsmen as well as the bowlers. The country's bowlers become 'demons' in giving away runs when the pitch is not favoured. This was also seen in the recent series against South Africa.
Experienced when inexperienced
Nazmul Hossain Shantar made his debut in Bangladesh cricket in 2017, Mehdi Hasan Miraj made his debut in 2016. After the alleged Panchpandav, the fate of the country's cricket rests on them. In terms of debuting in the national team, they are no longer young, they are supposed to be in the experienced cricketer category. Similarly, Taskin Ahmed, Liton Das, Zakir Hasan have also been in the national team for a long time. The way senior cricketers are supposed to take responsibility is not even close to that.
A glitch in the plan
In any work in the world, the importance of prior preparation or planning is immense. There is no exception to this in the cricket field. And in that game, the lack of planning of the Bangladesh team can be seen. Recently, there was a pacer in the Tiger XI in Mirpur in the first Test against South Africa.
However, the image of the field showed that the pacers were getting advantage on the wicket. On the first day, the mistake of the plan was seen that day. After meeting at various times, the cricketers came out just before the lunch break, tea break or drinks break and took the way to the pavilion. A clear impression of the lack of planning can be seen in the last Test series between the Tigers.
Deficiency in submissions
For more than a year, one of the biggest complaints about the cricketers of Bangladesh is the cricket field.
