CF Correspondent

Bangladesh skipper Tamim Iqbal said that their bowling unit needs to come up with a unified effort while the fielding unit gave to raise their standards if they want to come hard against Sri Lanka.

Bangladesh lost the opening game by 91 runs largely due to their wayward bowling performance apart from Shafiul Islam, who picked three wickets on his comeback game after three years.

 ‘’Death bowling was a concern for us actually. But i think we did very well today. Specially Mustafiz and Shafiul. Specially i want to mention Shafiul, because its difficult for anyone to come like this and perform. It’s very difficult for any cricketer. He did really nice today,’ said Tamim.

‘’And in new ball we were dissapointed because it was very rare that they hit a good ball for four or took a risk. it was rather a short ball or a ball outside leg. So, in this area , we need to think and come back very strongly because normally its a very good wicket. And if you give away boundaries in a good wicket then it becomes difficult,’’ he said

‘’But the bowlers I have, I have complete trust on them. I am sure they will find a way and come back strongly,’’ he said adding that they need to raise their standard as a fielding unit.

 The catching and fielding had been an issue for Bagladesh for quite some time and it was no in different against Sri Lanka in their opening game.

The way we are fielding right now, we are not that bad of a fielding unit. if you look, the dissapointing fact is that,  misfieldings are happening and our best fielders are doing those. So, this thing is very dissapointing. As i said before we are a much better fielding side. We have done good fieldings before and we have some very good fielders too. But if we field like this, if you take in account the whole match you will see we had given 10-15 runs more in fielding, we gave away some boundaries and singles. These 10-15 runs becomes big at the end of the match.In this area we have to improve very quickly because in batting and bowling everything may not be in your control. In batting, you can get a good ball, in bowling, you can get hit for four in a good delivery. But fielding is one side in which if you want you can do good. So this is the one side in which we have to something very quickly,’’  he concluded.