Bangladeshi guys really squeezed us: Chase
Roston Chase
|| CF Correspondent ||
West Indies spinning all-rounder Roston said Bangladeshi bowlers squeezed them to such extent that they were simply unable to get away with it. He believed it was the reason that forced them playing 171 dot balls, which was instrumental in their five-wicket defeat to Bangladesh in the first ODI on Sunday at the Sher-e-Bangla National Cricket Stadium.
“In the beginning and in the middle overs we didn’t really capitalise on our scoring areas. We got stuck in the middle and didn’t rotate, ..171 dot balls... I don’t think that’s acceptable in international cricket,” said Chase who was the only bowler from West Indies to give Bangladeshi batsmen a headache while they were chasing the target of 196 runs.
“We also lacked boundary options in the middle. Once the field was spread, the Bangladeshi guys really squeezed us and we didn’t get as much runs as we should,” he added.
No Bangladeshi bowlers apart from Rubel Hossain conceded runs more than 3.6 per over. Only Rubel Hossain gave away 61 runs in his 10 overs while Shakib and Mustafizur conceded 36 and 35 runs respectively from their full bowling quota. Captain Mashrafe Bin Mortaza and off-spinner Mehidy Hasan Miraj gave away only 30 runs in 10 overs.
While Bangladeshi spinners dominated the Test series, Bangladeshi pacer showed they are equally dangerous when it comes down to ODI cricket as they claimed seven wickets amongst them. Roston Chase admitted that the Bangladeshi fast bowlers were far superior than them in the first match of the ODI series.
“For me, when I went out to bat I thought that the pace was harder to get away than the spin. Based on the wicket, I thought the pacers really used their options well – they varied their pace on the wicket and it was helping them a lot. They bowled really straight and they didn’t give us any width for us to cash in on. Spin played a big part in the Tests, but I thought the pacers really showed their worth today,” he pointed out.
The other reason that caused their defeat was their failure to adjust with the slow and low pitch, disclosed Chase.
“We didn’t adjust to the pitch, the pitch was playing a bit slow. We were just playing hard-wicket shots. The pitch was holding a bit. I just thought that our batters took a bit too long to read the situation and it cost us many runs,” he said.
“Personally, I think we didn’t get enough runs. We spoke before the match and said that the par score was around 230-240. We fell short of that and paid the price. I just think that it is a case us needing to adjust to the pitch a little bit faster. We need to show a little more intent in those middle overs, try to push the score along in those crucial areas of the game – at the start and in the middle overs.”
