Are Bangladesh destined to never do well in sport?

[G_B_]

Never won an Olympic medal...

 

Football team ranked nearly last in the world

 

poor returns in cricket despite all the investment 

 

Sometimes I think people expect too much from them. Not really a sporting pedigree of any sort.

 

[Majestic]

They wil have to work a lot to become good in any sport. The attitude, professionalism, hardwork, talent, athleticism a lot of things are there and they don't seem to be good in any.

[sandeep]

pedigree doesn't matter.  All 'pedigrees' started somewhere. 

 

Its merely a function of efficient resource allocation and individual preparation.  Getting that right is non-trivial.  If they keep getting richer, they will eventually get something going.

 

Concern is that their economic formula may have kindof peaked already with textiles and diaspora remittances.  Add to that cost and challenge of climate change and flooding. So its not going to be easy.  Don't see BD making any tangible progress in any other economic sector.

[G_B_]

See on one hand you have Afghanistan who have zero support from the Taliban being calm composed and defeating Pak and SL.

 

Afghanistan have won olympic medals.

 

 

[Texan]

23 minutes ago, G_B_ said:

See on one hand you have Afghanistan who have zero support from the Taliban being calm composed and defeating Pak and SL.

 

Afghanistan have won olympic medals.

 

 

Afghanistan also finished above Pak and Bangladesh in the medals tall during the recently held Asian Games

[Texan]

The problem with Bangladesh is that they have a lot of passion but not enough substance. They waste too much of their energy in playing the blame game and with conspiracy theories about how the World conspired to see them lose. Instead, focus on your game, improve every day, keep negative energy at bay and focus on the task at hand. Learn how Afghans have overcome all kinds of obstacles to be where they are today. 

[NameGoesHere]

Swimming.  They should try swimming.

 

They're all going to have to get brilliant at swimming soon enough, may as well get a few medals out of it eh?

[rangeelaraja]

2 hours ago, G_B_ said:

Never won an Olympic medal...

 

Football team ranked nearly last in the world

 

poor returns in cricket despite all the investment 

 

Sometimes I think people expect too much from them. Not really a sporting pedigree of any sort.

 

 

 

All of this is pretty harsh and probably a little unfair.

 

They are at our per capita income with 75 -80 % of Uttar Pradesh's population.

 

Most of OUR recent sporting success is due to North India - just look at the national hockey team or kabaddi team or wrestlers.

 

If you exclude North India, most of India's  states are way below international standard in sports. 

 

Until 2004 Olympics - all India could manage at best was a single olympics medal in each Olympics event in " good years".

 

Between 1980 to 1996 ( 84,88,92 ) we won 0 medals.

 

 I am not optimistic about Bangladesh giving their economic and climate challenges - but we ourselves are extreme under achievers.

 

 

 

Edited October 31, 2023 by rangeelaraja

[Sean Bradley]

No body cares if the do well or not. Genetically and mentally weak. They should leave sports and focus on art, literature etc.

[Andy]

Their obsession with India is not helping them progress. 90% of their locals support Pakistan mainly and root for Bangladesh as well. If you interact with locals it would be hard for them to pick a team between the two. Much like Pakistan their supporters go berserk if they lose to us. But rest of the teams though they want their team to play well but losses to other nations dont trigger them as much as it does against India. 

 

Their aam janta is kind of narcissistic, they believe as a country they are superior to both Pakistan and India. Which is true in case of Pakistan. All their locals are taught and media has portrayed India as a country that cannot even offer toilets to most of the population. 

 

A generation that believes India conspired with Sheikh Mujeeb to separate them from Pakistan dor our gains to exploit them which we are doing right now according to them. Entire country lives in a different universe. 

Edited October 31, 2023 by Andy
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[maniac]

Can’t be genetics alone.  They have terrible resource management. The same set of players have been playing for 10 years now if I can remember. If SL who are not that different genetically can put in a competitive team even with all those injuries, I think Bangladesh would also be able to manage being competitive with better resource management. They clearly have internal cricketing political issues based on the drama recently and one can clearly see religion has crept into their cricket. Mushfiqur and Mahamadullah look like mullahs now. They don’t have the natural talent and flair like Pakistan produces due to their kind of cricketing culture. If they identity a pool and manage them like Nzl and SL they will do well. 

[IndianRenegade]

They are also very immature as an unit. The mushfikur snake dance saga, the fight between Shakib & Tamim before the WC. if this is what the seniors have to offer, no wonder their cricket isn't moving beyond the flash in the pan.

[cricketfan28]

just conduct the world-cup in bangladesh, they will at-least make it to final.

[bsriharsha]

2 hours ago, IndianRenegade said:

They are also very immature as an unit. The mushfikur snake dance saga, the fight between Shakib & Tamim before the WC. if this is what the seniors have to offer, no wonder their cricket isn't moving beyond the flash in the pan.

This.

 

There was someone in the bangla squad who said that we are planning to target 330 on this wicket during the world cup.Mushfiqur or Mahmudullah without even looking at the wicket 

 

The problem is that the batsmen get demoralized when they fail after having the pressure put on them to score big.

 

The bowlers in turn think that the batsmen left them a below par score. 

 

You don't see that kind of idiocy happening even with performing teams like India , Aus , NZ. They keep their expectations low atleast in public 

 

And here we have these retarded *s mouthing off as if they are world #1. 

 

Attitude and self confidence is one thing , delusion is another.

[bsriharsha]

18 minutes ago, cricketfan28 said:

just conduct the world-cup in bangladesh, they will at-least make it to final.

No way. India won't keep their C strength squad there and neither will the other teams 

[G_B_]

Well usually countries that do well economically (or on the rise) see an uptick in sporting fortunes...

 

Lets see what happens with BD

[ravishingravi]

On 10/31/2023 at 6:53 PM, rangeelaraja said:

 

 

All of this is pretty harsh and probably a little unfair.

 

They are at our per capita income with 75 -80 % of Uttar Pradesh's population.

 

Most of OUR recent sporting success is due to North India - just look at the national hockey team or kabaddi team or wrestlers.

 

If you exclude North India, most of India's  states are way below international standard in sports. 

 

Until 2004 Olympics - all India could manage at best was a single olympics medal in each Olympics event in " good years".

 

Between 1980 to 1996 ( 84,88,92 ) we won 0 medals.

 

 I am not optimistic about Bangladesh giving their economic and climate challenges - but we ourselves are extreme under achievers.

 

 

 

 

That's a great point. How many sporting champions has WB produced ? Must have something to do with the region too. However if one goes further east, the scenario is completely different.

[dilliboy]

Pathetic to not do better in cricket despite all the investment and interest in the sport.

[Zero_Unit]

Is anyone missing WI in this WC? Would have loved to see them instead of BD. BD's astrocious performance throughout this wc has not been pleasant to the eyes. Giving out free points to everyone

[Vijy]

On 11/3/2023 at 6:40 PM, Zero_Unit said:

Is anyone missing WI in this WC? Would have loved to see them instead of BD. BD's astrocious performance throughout this wc has not been pleasant to the eyes. Giving out free points to everyone

WI would have done the same. they are ok in T20s, but are pathetic in ODIs and tests.