||CF Correspondent||

Despite Bangladesh’s disappointing result against Zimbabwe in the two-match Test series where they were held back to 1-1, Bangladesh head coach Rhodes doesn’t see any reason to panic. Rather, he thinks that the hard-fought series against Zimbabwe came as a blessing in disguise for them.

“To be perfectly honest, we don’t have many concerns. We are looking forward to the series against West Indies. They are excellent opposition, as we saw in July. Conditions are little bit different in Bangladesh, so hopefully we will have good games against them. They have got some injury problems with Jason Holder going home,” he said in Chittagong on Sunday.

 “I think at Sylhet and Mirpur, Zimbabwe made us fight all the way. Some people might be a little bit surprised at the1-1 result and the hard fought series. I think it will do us a lot of good going into a contest against the West Indies who are obviously tough opposition. We needed to go there with some tough games under our belt. Zimbabwe proved to be a tough opposition.

“I was very pleased with the Mirpur result but as you said, we wanted more than 1-1. Once we lost that first one, we had to make sure we drew the series.”

Rhodes, however, has urged his side to be concerned about getting their own game right rather than thinking about West Indies, whose fast bowlers with raw pace, have all the elements to terrorize Bangladeshi batsman.