I enjoy both batting and bowling: Nayeem
Nayeem Hasan
||CF Correspondent||
Bangladesh’s Nayeem Hasan said on Friday that he is ready to take the responsibility with both bat and ball.
The off-spinner who picked five wickets on debut also left a hint of his batting prowess when he scored 26 valuable runs of 74 balls.
Bangladesh were tottering at 259 -8 before Nayeem and Taijul added valuable 65 runs for the ninth wicket.
A similar act might need to be repeated on the third day as Tigers are again on the back foot as they are reduced to 55-5 that give them a meager 133 runs lead.
Nayeem became the youngest ever player to claim five wickets in an innings but Bangladesh threw the advantage given by the teenager and his fellow spinners away by suffering a collapse in the second innings of their batting.
The Tigers reached 55/5 at stumps on the second day to stretch their sizable 78-run first innings lead to 133 runs.
The stuttering innings batting denied Bangladesh an opportunity to put West Indies under more pressure after Nayeem’s 5/61 and Shakib Al Hasan’s 3/43 helped them bowl out the side for 246 runs.
“I am enjoying both,” Nayeem told reporters at the press conference. “When I take the bat, it is my responsibility. It also feels good to bat. Again, when I took the ball, it was also my responsibility.”
“It doesn’t matter whether the wicket is good or bad. There won’t be any problem if you play with positive mentality.
“You have to fight everywhere. If you can bat for some time, then the wicket will be easy [to bat on],” he said.
