Who's Ashraful fooling?

Mohammad Ashraful is not the most popular man in Bangladesh at the moment. Harangued by irate fans when he landed home a couple days after Bangladesh's first-round exit from the ICC World Twenty20, Ashraful's captaincy and batting have been under severe criticism. Bishwajit Roy, of the Dhaka-based Daily Star, wonders how a batsman of Ashraful's calibre could express satisfaction with an average of 23.00 in 139 ODIs and little over 23.00 in 48 Tests in his eight-year long international stint.

Despite all the statistics, if someone expresses the kind of satisfaction Ashraful expressed recently, it's really alarming for our cricket. It could be dangerously infectious for the other players because he is now the most senior member in the team. It's always good to be confident but before that one should realise his position first.