FIZ THE WONDER BOY

Mustafizur's slow left-arm fast bowler for a break - the equivalent goes away from right-handed batsman and somehow too many bounces. So much so that plays off the edge to wicketkeeper slow delivery. The left-arm spinner playing bowling 125kph is not an easy proposition.

He is full of reasonably slow delivery, batsmen ahead of the drawing, but it's a forward with efforts to turn the smoke never full enough. Also, slower than the leg stump to bowl his arms swing freely around the pitch's power has declined. The only feasible alternative to slower than its hit spin and go off the side of the goal, but all finishers will tell you how difficult that a ball that is small and awkwardly bouncing and turning sharply against that. Saiful wickets in 18 one-day internationals to date have come from 12 offcutters no wonder.

A subtle change only when he is bowling his slow run-up seems to be no change at the top of the grip. Bowling level up when he puts his fingers on the level, but when he wants to change the speed, he holds a little cross-stitch.

Another thing that worked in favor of Mustafizur dished out six matches he has played so far of the pitch. It has worked elsewhere on the surface of the ball a lot more. Without this help from the surface, taking his wicket as the ball may not be effective. But then, at the highest level survival is evolving and staying a step ahead of your opponent.