It will be disappointing to lose this Test: Tamim
Tamim Iqbal. -BCB
||CF Correspondent||
Bangladesh opener Tamim Iqbal said on Monday that it will be disappointing to lose the rain-shortened Test match at Wellington.
Bangladesh stare another Test defeat against New Zealand as the host are comfortably placed to pull off an exceptional victory. Ross Taylor scored a brilliant double hundred while it was followed by a batting collapse as Bangladesh were 80 for three at stumps on day four at Basin Reserve.
Bangladesh lost the opening Test while the opening two days were washed out in the ongoing second Test.
Tamim, who had a brilliant Test series for him in I particular with three successive half-centuries before failing for the first time after being bowled out in the opening over, added that it would be extremely disappointing to lose the rain-shortened Test match at Wellington.
“There is no point hiding that we will feel bad. There was no cricket for the opening two days while the result is going against us in the remaining three days. If we say that it does not hurt us it then we will be lying,’’ Tamim concluded.
Tamim added that they cannot do anything apart from blaming their luck after missing to hold on to those two catches offered by Ross Taylor, who later went on to score a double hundred to put the host on the course of victory.
Bangladesh fluffed two chances of Taylor in one eventful over bowled by Abu Jayed and that proved to be the decisive moment of the Test. Jayed forced an uppish drive off the first ball of the over only for the fielder at cover to put down a sitter.
To make matters worse, just two balls later, Shadman Islam dropped a chance in the slip cordon.
“We missed the catch of someone who scored a double hundred. The catch is something that anyone can spill so whoever spilt it must be feeling bad but at the end of the day its part of cricket,’’ said Tamim.
