Observation - fielding

Just watching the South Africans playing against Bangladesh at the moment and Ashraful has just dropped Graeme Smith on 51.

Earlier in the innings, Mortaza dropped Hashim Amla on 15.

Both batters are now comfortably trucking along at around 5 and a half an over.

The Bangladeshi's I think dropped one on Friday night as well and then their fielding was very undisciplined at the Twenty/20 game on Wednesday night.

I actually watched them warming up before the Twenty/20 game and even when they were practicing, there was a pretty high number of drops. If you're dropping catches in your practice sessions, then you can't be surprised when catches are going down in matches...

You can't dispute that they are enthusiastic about their cricket, but they need to really sharpen up this aspect of their game if they are going to make a go of a match...

If you consider that they game away 6 runs in over throws in the Twenty/20 game, which they lost by 12 runs, you start to realise just how important those basics are....