It is still possible to win- Shakib
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CF Correspondent
Bangladesh skipper Shakib al Hasan said on Friday that they can still win the match against Afghanistan as there are several instances of making comebacks in Test cricket.
Bangladesh are struggling against Afghanistan in their maiden Test match as their finger-spinners failed to leave an impression against their opponent in the opening day of the Test and it looked Afghans looked to have picked the momentum from then onwards.
Bangladesh ended the second day on 194-8 and is now trailing by 148 runs, after Afghanistan was dismissed for 342 in first innings, their highest total in Test cricket. in their one-off Test match at the Zahur Ahmed Chowdhury Stadium after the end of second days play.
‘’Definitely it’s possible to win. Teams do come back falling behind after the first innings, it has happened for many times before. We will also try doing that same. The two wickets that have left, if they can last more and carry us forward and if we can bowl better. It will definitely be difficult to chase on this wicket facing the spinners they have but we have that belief that it’s possible (to win),’’ said Shakib.
Sakib said that maybe they were unable to apply themselves against Afghnaistan spinners and that was the major reason behind their down fall.
‘’Maybe we could not apply us properly. I won’t say it’s unplayable because the way Mosaddek (Hossain) and Taijul (Islam) batted, it’s possible to make runs here, they have proved it,’’ said Shakib.
‘’We could make more runs if we could apply more,’’ he said.
Mominul was making runs the way he was batting. I won’t say, he should not have hit that ball, maybe he could execute it in a better way at least it could be four instead of a six, and it would be better in that way. And in Liton’s case, the balls were coming low in this wicket since the first day. So he should have made proper plans, maybe he could avoid playing cross-batted shots, because he was batting really well, team was in better condition. If we could make a good partnership there, we would lose 4 or 5 wickets instead of eight,’’ he said
