Not for a moment, while analysing India’s unprecedented one-day series defeat to Bangladesh, would it be right for cricket pundits to undermine the fine performance by the hosts and sprightly attitude they displayed throughout the two games against India.

Sure, they looked under-cooked in Test match cricket, but they were a completely different outfit when they stepped on limited overs turf, continuing their dangerous ways against India, the No 2 team on the ODI charts as against Bangladesh’s seventh position.