Bangladesh dream under threat
Much was expected out of Bangladesh in their World Cup campaign at home, but defeat to England could further dent their hopes, says Stephen Brenkley in the Independent .
Siddhartha Talya
25-Feb-2013
Much was expected out of Bangladesh in their World Cup campaign at home, but defeat to England could further dent their hopes, says Stephen Brenkley in the Independent.
The public and the press (and probably Siddons, a passionate ambassador for his charges) are seething. Players and team management have been forbidden from speaking to the press except in official, obligatory ICC press conferences.
Elimination would be a bitter setback for the country and its mission among a public who took some years to be persuaded about cricket. Of course, cricket was always played here, but in the days when it was part of eastern India and then later East Pakistan, it was never fertile territory for cricket or cricketers. The game seemed to stop at Kolkata and barely travel further east.
Siddhartha Talya is a senior sub-editor at ESPNcricinfo