We still have six matches- Mashrafee
BCB- Roton Gomes
|| CF Correspondent ||
Bangladesh skipper Mashrafee bin Murtaza said that despite two losses in a row he is confident to make a comeback in the ongoing World Cup.
After their clinical win against South Africa Tigers lost to New Zealand in the following game despite fighting it till their last breath.
However, that was not the case against England as the host earned defeated them in a ruthless manner.
Bangladesh paid the price of their clueless bowling, sluggish fielding, and lackluster batting to let them down to England by 106 runs despite Shakib Al Hasan counterattack with a fluent century in their third match of the ICC Cricket World Cup at the Cardiff on Saturday.
A power-packed England batting line up took the full advantage of Bangladesh’s shaky effort in the field to compile a hefty 386-6 before their bowlers tore apart the Tigers with vicious short bowling to dismiss them for 280 in 48.5 overs.
England opener Jason Roy was instrumental in such gigantic total, smashing a 126 ball-153, clobbering 14 fours and five sixes. Jos Buttler hammered 64 off 44 with two fours and four sixes while Jonny Bairstow made 51.
For Bangladesh, Shakib Al Hasan blasted 121 off 119 with 12 fours and one six for his eighth century. It was his third fifty-plus score in a row having made 75 and 64 in the last two matches.
It was the highest score of the ongoing World Cup as of now and the second highest ODI total against Bangladesh.
‘’Still, six matches to go and hopefully others step up in those games because very important matches coming up.,’’ Mashrafee said in the post-match presentation after the defeat indicating they are yet to losing hope of going beyond the group stage.
Mashrafe said that they lost the game to Jason Roy, who plundered his career-best 153 to help the host post a daunting total on the board.
‘’386 is too many, credit goes to their batsmen. It's very difficult to get him (Roy) once he gets set. We knew we had to get Roy out, only then we could have come back in the match,’’ said Mashrafee.
‘’The pitch was undercover for one and a half days, so it was a straight decision to bowl first. We need luck sometimes to get those wickets. 330 could have been a different chase but as I said this score was too much,’’ he said adding that the only positive from the tournament so far was the batting of Shakib al Hasan, who scored a century against England but it went in vain as could not receive the required support from the other end. ‘’Shakib is batting so well for us at number three,’’ Mashrafee concluded.
Bangladesh take on Sri Lanka on June 11.
