|| CF Correspondent ||

Bangladesh opener Tamim Iqbal said that lack of chasing big totals played a part while they were chasing the mountains of runs posted by Australia at Trent Bridge on Thursday.

Bangladesh put up a brave show before conceding a 48-run defeat to Australia as they were a chasing a huge total posted by them.

David Warner’s 146 ball-166 helped Australia post a hefty 381-5 while their opponent were finally restricted to 333-8, their highest total in ODI cricket history, eclipsing 330-6 against South Africa in this World Cup opener.

‘’The truth is that we don’t have much experience of chasing big totals,’’ Tamim told reporters after the match.

‘’I was not looking at the score board but the way I was planning was that if we can score around 180-200 runs in 30 overs then in the last twenty overs we would be able to take some chances,’’ he said.

Because if you try to play too aggressive at the start and find yourself in a spot of bother[ by losing wickets] then this 330-340 runs wouldnt have been possible too,’’ he said.

‘’If we need to score 160-170 runs, which is usually chased down in T20 cricket we could give it a try but unfortunately when we had to capitalize,’’ he said.