James McKeown
Ashraful dropped and picked again...a joke...
November 26th 2006 14:27
Mohammad Ashraful was initially dropped from the Bangladesh squad for the ODIs against Zimbabwe....reasons given by the selectors were poor form... Fair enough... Although for a team like Bangladesh...I would still not drop the best batsman of the side for poor form...but the reason given by Faruque Ahmed, the chief selector is fair enough because Ashraful did perform very poorly with the bat recently...
But what happens next is even more amusing...
Ashraful goes on to score a century and then a magnificient 265 in the domestic match against Chittagong.... within a few days...he is recalled again and now he is back in the side...
My point is....he shouldnt have been dropped in the first place...but once he was dropped..he should have been dropped for atleast an ODI to let him know that although he is the best batsman in the country....he should NOT take his place for granted...but picking him up immediately...it will only give the impression that he is indispensible to the squad.
But what happens next is even more amusing...
Ashraful goes on to score a century and then a magnificient 265 in the domestic match against Chittagong.... within a few days...he is recalled again and now he is back in the side...
My point is....he shouldnt have been dropped in the first place...but once he was dropped..he should have been dropped for atleast an ODI to let him know that although he is the best batsman in the country....he should NOT take his place for granted...but picking him up immediately...it will only give the impression that he is indispensible to the squad.
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