lack of playing Test is reason for big defeat in Indore: Mominul
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||CF Correspondent ||
Bangladesh skipper Mominul Haque said that lack of Test cricket is having its toll as they take time adjusting with longer format cricket.
Bangladesh yet again came up with a reckless performance to let them down by an innings and 130-run margin defeat to India in the first Test at Holkar Stadium in Indore on Saturday.
The defeat came as most humiliating fashion as India crushed them within three days to register their third consecutive innings margin defeat, with their first two came against South Africa.
The latest defeat was Bangladesh’s 87th in 116 Tests, amongst which 41 was by innings margin. The stat indicates how vulnerable they remain in the Test cricket since their elevation to the elite format in 2000.
Bangladesh though fared better in the second innings, being bundled out for 213. They were bowled out for 150 in the first innings.
‘’I think we have to play a lot of Test matches. If you see, (in) last seven months, we played only one or two Test matches,’’ Mominul told reporters after the humiliating loss against India.
‘’We did not play enough Test matches like other teams play. I think that’s the main thing [for our failure,’’ he said
Mominul said that though there was a threat from the opponent bowling camp they failed to apply them properly against one of the best bowling attack of the world.
‘’Of course it was threat [facing the Indian pace bowlers] but along with that I think we failed as a batting unit,’’ he said.
‘’They are now world’s number one bowling side with the three-man pace attack but at the same time we could not capitalize our chances,’’ he said.
Mominul added that the top order needed to show more patience as they paid the price of lacking patience though he felt there was nothing wrong with the batting approach.
‘’Batting approach was right. I don’t think it was like that [wrong batting approach]. Maybe we needed to realize that we had to bat patiently against this opponent because they deliver the loose ball so rarely,’’ he said.
‘’So we should played more patiently, the players who play in the up-order,’’ he concluded.
