National dailies here have been running banner headlines reflecting this disappointment and demanding “signs of improvement.”

“Pathetic show once again,” runs a banner headline in the daily Bhorer Kagoj (Morning News).

“Once again Bangladesh was pathetic on the cricketing field and they are showing no signs of improvement,” the newspaper said.

“Bangladesh coach Trevor Chappell should hang a banner on the dressing room, ‘anyone who can’t play leg-spin has no right to enter the dressing room,” Aghoe Mondal writes, referring to the Bangladeshi batsmen’s failure to read Pakistani leg-spinner Danish Kaneria.

Kaneria took a career best 7-77 to help Pakistan rout Bangladesh by an innings and 178 runs in the first Test.

Bangladesh, accorded Test status last year, has lost nine of its ten Tests, six by an innings.

“Hosts run over,” writes Bangladesh’s largest circulated English language newspaper The Daily Star.

“Bangladesh sports suffered two terrible blows yesterday (Thursday). The cricketers were beaten all ends up inside three days by Pakistan in the first Test while their footballing brothers were banned by FIFA (International Football Federation).

The writer Al-Amin mocks the team.

“Bangladesh’s latest defeat in their tenth Test appearance was, however, consistent with their records - an innings defeat on most occasions.”

Another Bengali newspaper Manobh Jamin writes: “Three days, enough to beat Bangladesh.”

“175 minutes and Bangladesh is finished,” runs a flash headline by the largest Bengali newspaper Juganther, referring to Bangladesh’s second innings wrap-up for 152.

The Protham Alo says, “Bangladesh is going from poor to poorer. They went from bad to worse from the first to second innings and lost humiliatingly.

“Bangladesh’s loss was inevitable but they are not putting up a fight,” the newspaper lashed out.

“Innings defeat,” writes The Bangladesh Observer, adding, “Showing they are nothing but a bunch of tyros who don’t know anything about Test cricket, Bangladesh lost the match inside three days,” the newspaper hit out.

It furthers its attack, “But the humiliating loss, Bangladesh’s tenth in 11 Tests, hardly changed the atmosphere in the dressing room. The players took the defeat lightly as if nothing had happened, the captain didn’t mind giving interviews one after the other with smiles all over his face.

“And the coach Trevor Chappell who so far hardly justified the reason why he is in the crucial post said his boys had learnt a lot!

“Thanks to Bangladeshi batsmen they made an ordinary Pakistani boy a famous leg-spinner,” said the newspaper referring to Pakistan’s Kaneria.—SADA