What we saw instead was an abyss in professionalism and a could-not-care-less nonchalance leading to our humiliating drubbing in all the ODIs and Test matches. Thanks to live television coverage, we missed nothing of their body language and lacklustre application that came through in vivid images. Their lack of a strong mental resolve, seriousness and sincerity were far too manifest as they caved in without even a semblance of fight. It was a demonstration of incurable amateurishness, flippant and frivolous to the extreme.

It seemed as though they were not there to play serious cricket, rather their mind riveted on a self-indulging pleasure trip they hunkered down to. Bangladesh cricket lovers' patience has been taxed to the limit. They played in more less the same style in both the ODIs and Test matches. Didn't it sink in their minds that the two versions of the game were different? They behaved like automatons programmed to fail. What with a continual exposure to world cricket at the highest level for quite sometime now, they play like novices again and again.

A legitimate question can be asked at this point in time: can the huge investment, both financial and psychological, made on the national team be justified? Or would it not have been a lot better had we spent money on creating countrywide cricket facilities to hammer out a strong national team by now who would have done us proud with some consistent and gritty performances.

Mere rethink will not do, what we direly need is a creative reaction to the debacle so that we could rise from our self-created version of ashes.