There has already been chaos, not only amongst the cricket fraternity but also within the fans regarding the decision of handing such a demanding job like wicketkeeping to an inexperienced player (Mushfiqur Rahim) for cricket's showpiece event.

So any failure in this regard definitely places Faruque in a state of agony, nothing new for a man who is already remembered for the wrong reasons in two previous occasions. It was under his captaincy that a much touted Bangladesh crashed heavily in the 1994 ICC Trophy and their failure created a generation gap that made it take that much longer for Bangladesh to be boosted from ICC associate members to full Test playing nation.

It was also under his leadership that the selection committee made a great mistake by appointing Rajin Saleh as skipper for the ICC Champions Trophy in England in 2004, a move that almost made the team a laughing stock during the second biggest tournament of the game.

Though it takes time to draw conclusions about how suicidal the decision of excluding Mashud would be, the question that will go unanswered is how Mashud, clearly still the number one stumper in the country, was overlooked when veteran Javed Omar was drafted in to make his dream of playing a World Cup come true.

"Gelling? You wrote a very good story on this issue (opening pair) and you are now asking me why the Javed-Nafees (Shahriar) pair couldn't gel," was the surprise response of a very powerful and influential member of the Tigers' think-tank when this reporter asked him why the most tried opening pair did not gel.

The conversation took place at the Mirpur Indoors just before last year's ICC Champions Trophy team selection when the issue of the continuous problem with the opening pair was most discussed.

To usher in a new era, the selection committee brought left-handed opener Mehrab Hossain in place of Javed as they considered Javed's quality of occupying the crease not required at all in light of the constant voicing of their slogan for the shorter-version of the game - 'we go for win.'

Many wanted to believe that the selectors finally came out from their 'cut-throat' approach towards the batsman, especially after they expressed their satisfaction with the performance of Mehrab in the first few matches, leading many to believe that they would never go for a stop-gap solution again.

But the irony is that they again went one step behind by recalling the opener after ignoring him for last three series (two against Zimbabwe and one against Scotland) and the ICC Champions Trophy.

'Don't judge any player's ability only considering their performance against a team like Zimbabwe' was the other epitome but this was also not followed when the selectors rated Rahim's performance against Zimbabwe as a 'good enough' benchmark and push him through to the big challenge.

The question is not whether the young Bogra lad has the potential to represent the national team in such a high-ranking meet, rather whether the young man has gone through enough strenuous test in his nine-match one-day career.

The answer is definitely a 'no' because he played seven games against a run-down Zimbabwe (no need to portray their strength right at the moment) and two against Scotland.

So, one cannot say justice has been done in the selection of a World Cup team.

Many however believe that personal 'liking and disliking' sometimes play a significant role behind major decisions, which definitely should not be a principle for the men who are at the judges' position.

It is also evident in the appointment of the team operations manager. Believe it or not, some of the very high-ranking team-management members even advocated for the new manager, who replaced former national captain Khaled Mahmud, before the just concluded Zimbabwe trip.

"I can assure you he will be very successful in this post", was a verdict recovered from one of them.

But with all that's been said and done, the team have been selected and there is no going back. We can only hope that the chosen Tigers put on a show worthy of the World Cup and not come back home leaving the same questions unanswered.