CF Correspondent

Russell Domingo, the newly appointed head coach of the national team is confident that Bangladesh can be a force to reckon in the coming days despite the fact  they were humiliated by Sri Lanka in the three-match ODI’s after their rather disappointing performance in the World Cup. 

‘’I don’t think they are a bad team because they lost to Sri Lanka. Touring straight after a World Cup is always going to be hard. Sri Lanka probably had a bit more to gain from it with a few players leaving, it was Lasith’s last game, Kulasekara was given a farewell, they had a bit more to prove. While Bangladesh players – I was watching from the outside – had just come off a long World Cup and probably needed more of a break than they did, so I wouldn’t read too much into the Sri Lankan series. The World Cup performances, I thought they played really well. They were really close to winning some of the games that they lost. You think of the game against New Zealand, maybe a missed run out cost them the game. The margins of winning and losing international games are minimal, so … I think the team is really close to becoming a real force in world cricket. If they just make the right decisions, at the right times, on the right days, I don’t think they are really very far off other sides at the moment.

‘’The log will say they ended in seventh [eighth], I think they played better than that. And I’ve been in international cricket long enough to know that sometimes the results can hinge on a decision here and there, so it’s not always a fair reflection of where you are as a team. There were a lot of positives to come out of the World Cup that they can build on going forward for sure. There are a lot of areas they can improve in, but there were a lot of positives in the World Cup,’’ he sai