After enjoying a week-off the cricketers, who return home today, will be back in training. But the lesson learnt from the regional tournament is that they will need another specialist batsman -- not just a multi-skill player.

Playing with only five batsmen proved costly, especially after Javed Omar was ruled out for the latter stages of the six-nation meet.

Against lightweights Hong Kong, Bangladesh barely managed to reach 221 and from there on their fragile batting never crossed even the 200-run barrier.

Another concern for coach Dav Whatmore is the hardly penetrative bowling attack not to mention whom to sacrifice among the three left-arm spinners for the England assignment.

Abdur Razzak was one of the finds in Colombo and he bowled very tight and consistently to cement his place ahead of veteran Mohammad Rafique, who by his high standards failed to perform even with the bat.

The other tweaker Manjarul faired well in a century-partnership against Sri Lanka, so the selectors must decide whether to consider him as a batsman or a bowler.

With pace spearhead Mashrafee Bin Mortuza yet to recover from injury, the Tigers will have to stick to the same set of pacers in traditionally English seaming conditions.

Giving his assessment, What-more was the first to admit his disappoint at his players' overall performance.

"Everybody expected Bangla-desh to qualify for the second phase but not be a threat to the other teams. But I think we could have lost them in a way which is lot more closer," he revealed.

The Bangladesh coach is staying in Colombo and is expected to fly to Dhaka in the first week of August.

"There has to be some real hard discussion (for selection). We will have to review the whole exercise. We came here two weeks earlier, which was a good thing but fair to say, we are probably underachievers," Whatmore told reporters.

"Unlike Zimbabwe and the West Indies, the teams playing here in familiar conditions were much stronger. They knew pretty well how to bowl and bat on these surfaces. It made things harder for us.

"Playing against immediate neighbours certainly had an effect on us as the tournament went on."

"Some people may say we have gone backward a bit in the last month. We fought against some good sides. Bad cricket seemed to follow in the ensuing games after the Hong Kong match, where we did not do that well.

Pakistan coach Bob Woolmer also shared his thoughts on Bangladesh's performance.

"Having watched them (Bangladesh) play, I think they have certainly made strides. They looked fit and quick. They have lot of talent… I know it from being in the country. The infrastructure is building but the first-class system needs a lot of fine tuning," the Englishmen said.

"The way the team is getting out, I think there is a lot of technical work needed to be done. They have to make changes in technique for the batsmen to stop getting out the way they are doing. I think Dav is working on that but it is only my view from an opposition coach's angle."