CF Correspondent

Bangladesh skipper Tamim Iqbal believes Tigers can still make a comeback in the ongoing three-match ODI’s series against Sri Lanka if his team mates put their hands up to take their respective responsibilities.

Bangladesh is trailing by 1-0 margin after they were handed a 91-run defeat by the host in the series opener at Colombo’s Premadasa Stadium.

 ‘’ We are still in the tournament and I think we need to just re-group and the main thing is if you want to do something in this series people have to take responsibilities,’’ said Tamim.

‘’People who get the start, who will bat at 50-60 or 70's will have to take the responsibility to make it big,’’ he said.

‘’Because at one point if you see we lost three early wickets. And then Mushi and Sabbir were batting. they were doing really well, the run rate wasn’t an issue. Even if you see at the end, in the 41th over we bowled out ourselves but the score was 220-225. If batsmen were batting at that stage we probably could have added 15-20 more runs. We probably had to chase 70-80 at the last 10. But we never gave ourselves that opportunity. I thought the Mushfiq and Sabbir's partnership was the key. But Sabbir got out at the wrong time,’’ he said.

Bangladesh were bowled out for 223 by the 42 nd over chasing 315 despite recovering well for a while after being reduced to 39-4 before succumbing eventually.

‘’Look, one thing that is most important i think when a batsman gets out early waht i feel most important is that when a partnership is building if you see the best batsmen in the world what they do they finish the game off.  They try to finish the game off. Our starting was very poor today, we lost three wickets for 30 runs. Even after that, they way we recovered, if that partnership could have added 60-70 more runs then the match could have been different. I think the most important thing is whoever gets in he has to make it big. Thats the most important thing. Because in cricket there will be some times in which some batsmen will get good deliveries, will get out early. This things can happen. The main thing is whoever gets in, he has to make it count,’’ he said. Bangladesh is trailing by 1-0 margin after losing the opening game in a disappointing manner as they host handed them a 91-run defeat in the series opener at Colombo’s Premadasa Stadium.