Don't mean to nitpick, but Holi is not a religious festival. It heralds the arrival of spring and is celebrated by all communities in the region. cheers, k.

OK. But i think you are quite missing some heartful picture which are belongs to most villagers of bangladesh.

Bangladesh have lost the series 3-0, But I think if two wrong lbw decision (one against morgan in 2nd match, and another is in 3rd match against sakib)Bangladesh might win the series by 2-1. It is an unjustice with bangladesh by ICC to give the responsibility to such careless umpires to direct the matches.

Very sorry to correct you, Longmemory. Holy is indeed a religious festival of the Hindu community of Bangladesh. It is widely celebrated in India. Mr Miller hits the nail on the head when he opines that Bangladesh culture is truly secular. The village he visited is inhabited by a Hindu majority. But the Muslim community there, as eleswhere in Bangladesh share their neighbours' festivals. They have done so for a thousand year or so, since the advent of Islam in Bengal. All these have important ramifications for international cricket though. We have no Taliban, Al Qaida or their likes to threaten a cricket match in Bangladesh, unlike, ufortunately as they do in India or Pakistan. Safe venues here, I dare declare! All we have to do is to win the next Test series against the sons, even adopted ones, of Albion! (smile) Best wishes to Team England from all of us in Bangladesh! Let the better team win!! Let Cricket win!! Cheers mates!

Aha! One last word of caution. While you do not at all have to worry about a terrorist attack in Chittagong, it is my patriotic duty to warn the visitors of the fiery Chittagonian Curry that Mr. Miller found 'exceptionally tempting'! The non-locals assiduously stay away from these mouth-watering dishes rendered cherry-red with excess of powerful red chilies of the district. Now you know the reason of the type of batting that the local lads Tamim and Aftab usually practice. They must be charged up with extra chili-energy that they are well-advised to down-shift in order to cruise on for the long haul in the coming Tests. However, if you take a mouthful of this tempting rocket fuel Mr. Miller, I am afraid, you are likely to be launched in space without the benefit of the spaceship that Mr. Bronson is building! Ha ha! So stick to such safe local delicacies as 'tiger prawns' from the Bay and the famous 'Goyal Beef' of Chittagong. Enjoy Chittagong's many charms! Cheerio!

Hey fellows! Let us not be world champion spoil-sports. Let us not constantly moan about bad umpiring and such other factors for our team's sorry performance this year. Our team must take all these hazards as part of the game and go on to win the next game, if needed, against 13, including the umpires! Sakib seems to have shurgged off the incident and is getting ready for the next battle. Let us not distract the Tigers on the beat by crying fox! After all it is a jungle that the Tigers prowl! They mustn't be afraid! They must prove that they are the Kings of the Jungle, against any odds! Cheers!

first try to know the culture about BD, then make comment. what u wana mean by every new whitewash? day by day bangldesh cricket is improving, and u still keep criticizing us?
Mr.Miller r u reporting cricket? or criticizing the oposition?

bangladesh is very ordinery team as qouted by sehwag its very difficult for them to take 20 wickets in test cricket to win the match thier best chance is in one day cricket to upset england which they missed allready by playing some sloppy cricket and they dont have the power in bowling line up to dismiss opponents in test cricket all sppiners once the batsment is set then they find very diffuclt to take his wicket best wishes to bangladesh cricket in finding few fast bowlers

Despite of the fact that Bangladesh have come close to winning on a couple of occassions, I would like to see their batsmen learning from their mistakes and not repeating them. As long as they keep doing the same they will continue to be ordinary. Wish you guys a better test series. If you can trouble NewZealand in their own backyard you are definitely capable of beating England in yours if you play sensibly.

Good luck fellas!

i believe it is necessary to use referring system in Bangladesh vs England Test series.It is almost no harm for England if there is one or two decision goes against them but for Bangladesh if that happens it becomes a decider. Although Bangladesh improve since 2007 WC.We just need 2 good quickies probably Masrafee and Rasel. Our batting is good and consistent, we have world class spin attack and average fielding ability.If we can continue our improvement,we will become a world class team in WC 2011.By the way,our culture is very rich as ever.Cheers

Couldn't disagree more with Sadiq. Bangladesh have a descent bowling line up. Most of the bowlers in Bangladesh team are, literally, eligible to represent their under 21 team any day. They need time. They have bowled out the Indian batting line up, which consisted of Sahin, Sehwag, Gambhir, Dravid, Laxman below 250 in a first innings of a test played on a batting heaven in Chittagong. They could not repeat the success in the 2nd innings because of some unhelpful sloppy fielding and inexperience. Though they were just short of 2 wickets in the 2nd innings. The point is, if Bangladeshi batsman played to their true strength or if the batting line up was from, say RSA or AUS, then Indian bowling line up couldn't have taken 20 wickets either. By any definition, Bangladesh is no ordinary team. I don't know what's the fuss about pace bowling on a Bangladeshi surface where even Wasim Akram wouldn't get anything, as he actually did not get anything whenever he played there.

nice post. thanks.