Looking at the stereotypes of the 10 Test-playing nations

#9 Bangladesh

The perennial under-achievers

Ever since their Test Debut in 2000, Bangladesh have always been a team which has only flattered to deceive. A permanent under-achiever in cricket, Bangladesh found some form going their way during the recent years when they performed admirably in the 2015 World Cup. They kept at it in the Asia Cup, but just as they were beginning to show progress came the World T20 and they were a team left deflated.

Perhaps this is their legacy, the stereotype, which is to always be a struggling team, a team which has hid under the minnows tag for too long, and never quite emerged from the shadows of India, Pakistan and Sri Lanka, so much so that today Afghanistan evokes more fervour than them.

So then what is their stereotype? Perhaps the fact that they even after almost 16 years they have not yet made their mark and forever being the underdogs, which is just a refined way of labelling them as under-achievers.