||Desk Report||

Just five wickets from six World Cup games don’t justify Mehidy Hasan Miraj’s. The stat looked not perfect for a frontline bowler also, but still, Mehidy is not unhappy with the outcome.

But the fact is that the team management doesn’t want him to go for wicket, rather they want him to curb the aggression of the opponents in flat track, bowling with tight line and length. The strategy is-- he would create pressure which would give the other bowlers a scope to get wicket.

And here Mehidy is successful. His economy rate is just 5.45 in six games and the economy rate looked more prominent when almost every opponent scored more than 300 runs against Bangladesh.

However, for a total team man like Mehidy, it is no problem that he is no getting many wickets, what every bowler wants in this big stage. He rather expressed his satisfaction after playing his role perfectly as given by the team management.

“I was told and I also felt that I need to bowl with tight line and length so that I can increase the chances for other bowlers to get wickets,” Mehidy said.

“If you see I tried to bowl in tight length rather going for wicket when I came to bowl. When opponents didn’t get any chance to attack me due to my tight bowling, they went hard other bowlers and subsequently gave them wickets. That was the strategy,” he added.

Citing the team’s cause is important for him rather than the personal achievement, he said: “I may not get many wickets or my individual performance doesn’t look that good but for me team is winning and it’s crucial for me.”

The English condition is not that suitable for the sub-continent finger spinners, which prompted the team management not to motivate Mehidy to go for wickets.

Shakib also got only five wickets before the Afghanistan match. But as the pitch got used and deteriorated spinners started getting more purchase from the pitch, and Shakib was the first to make the full use of it claiming his career-best 5-29 against Afghanistan.