The world has taken notice of our young Tigers, and this country as a result of it.
The sole credit for that amazing feat goes to our budding cricketers and the team behind them.
Consistently, the Tigers have provided Bangladesh with positive PR on the world stage that we so desperately need.
They deserve much more than the on and off love affair that we provide them with.
A supporter is not meant to have an open relation with his or her team. It’s a commitment that requires you to be unflinchingly supportive and monogamous.
Your love for the Tigers is deserved when they win, but it is truly needed more when they lose, especially when they do so in a close fought match. Losses can scar a soul.
If it pains the supporters to watch, it hurts infinitely more to be playing the way we did and then losing out.
It’s a game. We win some and we lose some. Overcoming your own pain to make your team feel better is the kind of love our team deserves.
Leave the finger-pointing to the experts, the coaches, the detractors. It’s not your job as a supporter to fan those flames.
Cricketing personalities, giants of the game, hall of famers have been vocally supporting the Tigers in the recent past. They keep saying how Bangladesh is the new cricketing force to be reckoned with. This has been the case for many months now.
Many of us already know this. We keep putting up a fight with the best and we are getting better at overcoming our weaknesses at a very fast pace for such a young team at this level of cricket.
With the low median age of the players in the team, the future is truly bright.
We need to stop acting like spoilt brats when the results don’t go our way.
This self-mutilation is unbecoming of our team, and counter-productive to the strides that we have made over the years.
It’s also very crass.
We are right up there with everyone else. We need to act like it.
Be able to clap for our team and the other team when they win even knowing fully well that sometimes mysteriously, the decisive machinery in the cricketing world unfairly puts obstacles in our path to victory.
It’s ok. That will change too.
That we love our team is not a matter of doubt. Let’s act like it. That we can win against anyone often is not in doubt, so why fret?
That we always fight when the chips are down, should no longer be in doubt. Even unfairly handicapped, we pack quite the punch.
We need to go out of our way to love our heroes every time they lose because that’s proof of our class, our fighting mind-set.
We are the supernova of the snoozy darkness that’s descended over cricket in recent years. We excite. We never give up. We are the Tigers!
