No offense but thats a minnow mentality. This was the chance for BD to prove themselves that they can also compete against Asian sides on spinning pitch. They lack self confidence...
BD fans shouldn’t cry when other teams dont take you guys seriously, and doesn’t get invite to tour top nations.
No one is crying, because what you are saying isn't determined by the quality of cricket, rather the economy behind it as well - if I go further in history you won't like to discovers that teams were invited for 5 Test series after being hammered in 3/4 days. Where BD tours will be determined by the money behind it, not the cricket only.
Coming to first part of your post, I don't you are doing justice to BD cricket. Few months back, SRL put absolute grand track road against IND, and lost 3-0 every time by innings. Not sure they were trying to prove themselves there either and if I go back to 70s & 80s ...... you won't like that for sure.
As I said, it's easy to become wise at hind side, but try to understand the game first. These days were are playing Test for 5 days & 450 overs and neutral umpires with DRS - hardly any scope of back door escape; therefore without rain & weather saving a Test is indeed commendable for team whose players hardly play Test cricket.
Coming to the CTG wicket, this wasn't a wicket where darters put the ball on spot or dible-doblies bowl at 125km and rest is done by the wicket, BUT it wasn't that road for sure. In fact, this was quite a good Test wicket and I can explain with example - it's up to you to accept or not -
First, what is a poor Test wicket? To me, a poor Test wicket is one which doesn't offer anything to the players playing - batsmen, pacers, spinners. A perfect example is the UAE, particularly Abu Dhabi track - dead slow, low & dying wicket where batsmen can't play shots, bowlers can't get any purchase, and spinners don't get any bite or bounce - result 220/2 sort of score in first 2 days. If you look at the score card of CTG, over 350 runs were scored in the Test in 1st 4 days and most runs were scored by boundaries (not SIX), on what is a nice 70 metre boundary. And, lots of runs were scored by stroke makes from both side, not Azhar Ali or Pujara type batsmen, rather batsmen who can hit on the rise & on back foot. Which indicates for those who can see - there was enough pace & bounce one the track and out field was quite fast as well.
Problem is, on such wicket, you need pacers who can bowl at 140K+ constantly and can move both new & old ball. For spinners as well, there was enough pace & true bounce to work with, but these are the two best sides with decent spin players in this spin playing bankrupt T20 era, hence both sides nullified their spinners. Above all, with true bounce, % of LBW reduces hence, you have to catch well - and here catch doesn't mean skiers, you have to catch from edges both from pacers & spinners. On same wicket, had SRL posted 450 on first innings, you would have seen the English/Aussie dance against Herath & Dilruan; in fact without YK, Misbah you would have seen Punjabi bhangra as well.
Yes, it wasn't a wicket where you can go through the motion and 40 wickets fell, but certainly not the wicket which didn't offer anything to bowlers. Besides, you have failed to notice that, 3 innings were dominated by 1 BIG partnership each - which indicates, it's a true wicket for set batsmen; here you can't expect to bowl on length line & 2/3 wickets feel every session.
Hope it explains.
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