|| CF Correspondent ||

Bangladesh batsman Liton Kumar Das revealed how batting coach Neil McKenzie’s suggestion of playing late changed his batting upside-down.

Liton in his first 17 ODI out of 36 able to make his run to pass double-figure only for seven times and had a highest innings of 41 runs. However, Liton has been in great form since the 2019 World Cup, where he had an innings of not out 94 from 69 balls against West Indies.

As he performed well in the last Bangladesh Premier League [BPL] after that he made the history of becoming the highest ODI run-scorer for Bangladesh by scoring 176 from 143 balls against Zimbabwe.

However, the right-handed talented and one of the most prominent player of the team Liton told the story of his such drastic change in a live chat with Tamim Iqbal. Where Mominul Haque and Soumya Sarkar were also in Tamim's Facebook live session with Liton.

 

In the session, the young opener said that he was thinking that he needs to change his habit of less practice and less batting rather than start to bat as much as he can from the Ireland tour before the 2019 World Cup he started to work with the batting coach Neil McKenzie and Mckenzie assessed him and suggest him to play late to enlarge his vision and to understand the bowler and the situation. And practicing that makes cricket easy for him.

"If you see the changes in my batting then it will be from the World Cup. From the Ireland series before the World Cup, I started to set up within me, I like to bat less, which I always have been doing, do less net, less practice and leave. But what I realized that this will not bring success for me. I have to think differently. So, when I was going to Ireland I thought that from now on to the World Cup the time I will have I will try to use my wicket as much as I can. I worked with Neil [Neil McKenzie] for a long time. I batted at first then I batted at last again," Liton said.

"Neil told me to play late which helped my batting a lot, I never played like this. I have never done this practice of playing late. Now I practice this a lot, of play late, how late can I play. So, I think that whenever I play late my vision gets much better, I can see bowl very quickly where I can play the bowl, cricket becomes easy for me," he added.

He also said that he always tries to hit the ball to make the strike rate so high, which is wrong so rather than making the strike rate high he is now thinking to rise up his average while controlling his batting prowess as he is also very fond of hitting boundaries. So, making his practice works in the field he wants to make things works for him just like he did in the last World Cup till the Zimbabwe series.