I would not like to talk at length about the BCB chief Mustafa Kamal’s ugly interference in the selection process neither I don’t find any interest in analyzing about that person’s activities of whom I am not a fan. But my eye brows rose due to Akram’s act. He backed the selection of a player who might be a high profile name in Bangladesh cricket but for the last one year or so he has bore no fruits for us.
Yes Tamim Iqbal has been nothing but a name since last year. Both in the ODIs and Tests Tamim’s form has been frustrating for the team and for the cricket mad people of Bangladesh . Lean patches are a part and parcel of a player’s career and when such lean patches visits a player then it’s better to give him a break from the team and then let him sort out his technique in the nets and then get his lost touch back by playing enough domestic crickets.
In 2007 Virender Sehwag was dropped from the Indian squad and during that break he could focus on his grey areas, worked on them and returned with a bang during the tour to down under. That’s what a certain break can do. A young player with a star status doesn’t take his place in the team for granted and thus start thinking that he needs to perform to keep his place in the team. It makes him hungrier to give his best shot.
Getting dropped from the side is always a blessing in disguise if the players take it seriously.
Akram Khan ranked Tamim highly and we too rank him highly but what’s his track record over the last one year? It’s a frustrating story. Only the name ‘Tamim Iqbal’ won’t produce results for us. Tamim’s bat must talk which has lost the Midas touch of 2010 England tour.
Had Akram Khan stood for a player who deserves a selection in the team on the basis of performance rather than the high profile tag then I would have certainly convey my best regards for him. But he just stormed the media supporting a player who is out of touch and needs a break to sort out his technique. I don’t think Tamim should have been in the initial 15-man squad for the Asia Cup but instead a better performer deserved a place.
In life we need to work under peoples who lack sense and sensibility and the best way to deal with them is by never giving them a chance to interfere by acting smartly. Had Akram gone for a better performer rather than the off-coloured Tamim then it wouldn’t have allowed Mustafa Kamal’s unnecessary interference!
Over all the matter was ugly and I simply didn’t like it. Already our cricket isn’t in a good shape and such off-field incidences won’t do any good for our cricket. Before a major tournament such incidents are uninvited guests to spoil the mood. Mustafa Kamal is nothing but a political animal to me without any sense and sensibility but Akram Khan isn’t that. He bears sense.
Don’t you think Mr. Akram Khan that Tamim Iqbal doesn’t deserve a place in the team on the basis of performance?
Thank You
Faisal Caesar
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