What progress? Sunil Gavaskar in MIDDAY

Seeing the manner in which the Bangladeshi batsmen batted in both the innings, one wonders if the Bangladeshi board had informed them that they were going to be given fees only for three days of the Test rather than all five days.
-Sunil Gavaskar in MIDDAY

Outrageous play

To see batsman after batsman coming out and trying to play outrageous shots was eye-popping, for one would have thought that a team that had been kept on the field for almost two days chasing leather and fielding in the heat would want to return the compliment, and at least look to keep the Indians on the field for two days, even if it was spread over two innings.

What this inept display clearly shows is that Bangladesh have made absolutely ‘zero’ progress in Test cricket, and with the possibility that a better team than theirs will have the odd bad day, they may win that odd one-day game.

In India’s case, that bad day unfortunately came in the 2007 World Cup, but India showed in no uncertain terms who was the boss in the one-dayers as well as the Tests here, and that too in the tigers’ den.

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