5 lessons learnt by Bangladesh after the South Africa tour 

1 Top order needs rebuilding

Tamim Iqbal

The lack of quality batsmen at the top of the order is a huge problem for any side that wants to compete away from home and when it comes to Bangladesh, it has been a problem now for many years.

The tour to South Africa this year further reinforced the fact that the team needs to start looking for batsmen who might be ready to step into the Test arena. After scoring 320 in the first innings of the 1st Test, Bangladesh crumbled to 90 all out, 147 all out and 172 all out to crash to a 2-0 defeat in the two-match Test series.

However, if a team is to put up decent totals on the board then it must have a top 3 which can score runs and in those two Tests, not a single century was scored by any one batsman out of the top 3.

Among them, perhaps only Tamim Iqbal is immune from the axe, but it is perhaps time for the team management to try out promising young players from the domestic level. Bangladesh must have learnt the lesson that they do not have a chance in overseas Tests if they do not have a sound top order.