da blaze casino： Trevor Chappell is no stranger to Sri Lanka after two six-month stints asthe fielding coach and he hopes that his inexperienced players will not justlearn from the cricket that commences on Thursday, but also from Sri Lanka’sexperience as an
da bet vitoria： CricInfo05-Sep-2001Trevor Chappell is no stranger to Sri Lanka after two six-month stints asthe fielding coach and he hopes that his inexperienced players will not justlearn from the cricket that commences on Thursday, but also from Sri Lanka’sexperience as an emerging cricket nation.Sri Lanka were given Test status in 1981, but only won their first Test whenDuleep Mendis’s side defeated India in 1985/6. They had to wait even longerfor their first overseas victory, which did not come until 1994/5 againstNew Zealand.”The players can learn from the example of Sri Lanka and I would like some of the recently retired cricketers here, like Arjuna Ranatunga and Roy Dias, to talk to the players about their early day experiences,” said Chappell”Aravinda de Silva was in Dhaka just before we left for Zimbabwe and hechatted to the players, telling them that they may have problems to startwith but must just preserver because, although this generation may not breakthrough, the combined knowledge gets passed on.”At the moment there is no Bangladesh Test player for them to turn to foradvice, so talking some of the old Sri Lankan players may help to short cutthe learning curve or, at least, give them more background, which helps themrealise that they are not the first ones to have gone through this toughprocess.”Chappell remains optimistic, however, that despite lacking a first classcricket structure and proper development programme until recently Bangladeshcan break through quickly into the big time.”The talent is there,” he says.”There are 140 million people who are fanatical about their cricket, so itsmatter of putting the right development programmes in place to identify theplayers and then coach them in the correct manner.”I am very confident that sometime along the line, in 5 or 10 years,Bangladesh will be a pretty strong Test side.”I am looking for the guys to learn how to play at this level.”They haven’t played a lot of first class cricket in Bangladesh, let aloneTest cricket, so it’s a big jump to come and play countries like Pakistanand Sri Lanka in Test matches.”We played Zimbabwe earlier in the year and learnt a bit from playing them,but we weren’t able to put it into practice against Pakistan.”There was no reason for it, as the wicket was ideal and batting isgenerally recognised as one of our strengths.”We need to learn how to play session cricket and then how to play for fivedays, where we play consistently well throughout and don’t have bad hourswhen we get thoroughly beaten.”We regularly lose wickets just before the end of the session or drinks, butwe need the guys to bat throughout a session, even if they don’t score manyruns.”With the bowling we have just tried to keep to a simple plan of bowlingline and length.”There is no point in anything too fancy at the moment. We can look a morecomplex plans of attack in the future.”
