Are you serious, Shoiab Malik is streets ahead of Ashraful and his batting easily puts him ahead of Silva. I can see Ashraful being selected in a token Bangladeshi sort of sense, but I think Shahriar Nafees is more meritous of one of the opening slots than Ashraful is of a place in the middle order. Mortaza is solid enough but I think it would be hard to look past Abdul Razzaq for a spot as the Bangladeshi bowler.
Three matches does not an indicator of form make.
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I agree with that...all in all it is a waste of time TBH! I dont care who wins and there is no chemistry between the players or any team spirit! As an asian, i would support the asian team, but if they win, that would be great, but if they lose, i wont cry abt it!
It's a fund raiser for Asian Cricket council and African Cricket council. But these shouldn't be ODI status. It's not the same thing as when your repping your country. I would like it if the icc introduced something like all star/exhibition status and the games would count as that.
I agree that these games are pretty pointless, but if the players put in the effort then it can be quite entertaining to watch all these superstars. The chances of the players putting in as much effort as if they were representing their own countries is slim though.
Abdur Razzaq I assume you mean? Anyway, with Nafees having such a poor WC campaign then his chances have diminished greatly of representing this Asian XI although he may get into the squad.
I disagree pretty strongly with that, while Ashraful may be more talented it's obvious that Nafees is the better batsman. He is probably slightly less talented but has been putting runs on the board pretty consistently, up until this WC where he's hit some poor form.
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Nafees also hit 51 against Vaas, Malinga, Fernando and Muralitharan which is a good Test attack.
He's been putting runs on the board a lot more consistently than Ashraful hasn't he? That makes him a better batsman IMO. Ashraful has the potential to be better, but isn't.
Besides his 75 vs Australia in the Natwest hasn't done much but I think once Bashar retires he'll be a Good Middle order Batsmen.
Over their entire careers I mean, I realise that Nafees is in very poor form at the moment and since his recall Ashraful has been scoring runs. No denying that Ashraful is in better form at the moment than Nafees, however Nafees is still the better batsman.
What about his 101 vs Australia, or his 84 vs South Africa, or his 3 Test centuries? It's folly to say that Ashraful hasn't done anything when quite clearly he has, just not consistently enough.