|| CF Correspondent ||

Bangladesh skipper Mashrafee bin Murtaza said that they are not taking the loss against India too seriously as they had some injury issues ahead of the warm-up.

Bangladesh failed to live up to the expectation to adjust with the modern power cricket as they suffered a humiliating 95-run defeat to India to end their warm-up games at Sophia Gardens in Cardiff on Tuesday.

Their first game against Pakistan was washed out without a ball being bowled, meaning they would take on South Africa in their World Cup opener on June 2 at The Oval with no victories in warm-up games under the belt.

Riding on two fluent centuries of KL Rahul and MS Dhoni, India racked up a hefty 359-7, indicating a one-sided contest, considering that Bangladesh never chased excess off 322 runs to win a game. Even their highest team total in ODI history is 329-6.

But it was to see how they could cope up with modern power cricket when 300 above total became normal. The Tigers failed miserably, being all out for 264 in 49.3 overs.

Despite the outcome Mashrafee insisted that they are well prepared as they had enough time to cope with the condition

‘’We had a few matches in Ireland so we've spent about four weeks here,’’ Mashrafee said in the post match presentation.

‘’We had a few niggles, like with Shakib and some pace bowlers so we had enough practice. I also had a hamstring issue, Mustafiz had a calf issue and Shakib also had a bad back spasm last week,’’ he said.

‘’Our top order is scoring some runs and Soumya got a few fifties, hopefully our top order will continue to score,’’ he quoted.

"Liton and Mushy did a good job. Overall, the top-order batsmen need to understand their role".He added.

Bangladesh rested   opener Tamim Iqbal against India in their last warm-up as part of precaution due to the injury that he sustained in their last practice session.