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| January 19, 2002 | Saturday | Ziqa'ad 4, 1422 |
Bangladesh Test status questioned
KARACHI, Jan 18: Former Pakistan players questioned Bangladesh’s right to Test status on Friday after yet another humiliating defeat.
“Bangladesh have to give more creditable performances at the Test level or the ICC (International Cricket Council) will soon come under pressure to review its decision to give them test status,” former Pakistan captain and coach Javed Miandad said.
“Every team has taken time to settle down and prove its worth after gaining Test status but the Bangladesh team, I am afraid, have not taken their Test status seriously.
“They have to start showing some signs of improvement at the Test level in their next few matches or I am afraid the ICC will come under pressure.”
Rashid Khan said the ICC should cancel Test matches involving Bangladesh until they first proved themselves against teams like Kenya, Canada.
“You can’t have this sort of test cricket, matches finishing in three days and so one-sided. It is not a good advertisement for test cricket,” he said.
Another former Pakistan skipper Zaheer Abbas, who is on the ICC technical committee, said he believed the ICC could not possibly rescind Bangladesh’s test status
“Their infrastructure is okay and giving them test status was not a wrong decision,” he said.
“My advice to them is send your players to play in the domestic tournaments in England, Pakistan, India, Sri Lanka. The exposure will do their players individually a world of good.”—Reuters
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