|| CF Correspondent ||

Bangladesh fielding remained a major talking point in the just concluded tour of Sri Lanka as they lacked aggressive approach and followed that by dropping catches on regular basis.

In the last game Bangladesh dropped as many as five catches to end their  three-match ODI’s series after dropping coaches  in a disappointing note but what is more alarming is the approach they are carrying as a fielding unit.

But this disappointing show did not start in their tour of Sri Lanka rather their failed to perform as a fielding unit for quite some time now.

In the World Cup Bangladesh paid the price of shoddy fielding on at least three occasions respectively against New Zealand, Australia and India as they failed to capitalize the chance proved by Kane Williamson, David Warner and Rohit Sharma- who eventually did the job for their country in the showpiece event.

Their misery continued to haunt them as they leaked runs on regular basis while dropped important catches quite regularly with the latest one coming on the third ODI’s when they dropped Angelo Mathews respectively on 32 and 63 and he eventually managed to score a match defining knock of 90.

A bowling unit is often inspired by the fielders as their effort often ignites them to bowl their heart out but that hardly remained to be seen for quite some time as far as Bangladesh performance is concerned.

Bangladesh head coach Khaled Mahmud is utterly disappointed with such fielding performances considering he is considered to be an aggressive fielder during his hey days.

‘’As a fielding unit we were disappointing,’’ Mahmud told Cricfreznzy.

‘’We hardly managed to restrict the runs flow while we failed to hold catches on crucial times,’’ he said adding that he feels a lot depends on the body positioning of the fielders both inside the circle and in the boundary.

‘’What Jonty Rhodes or Ricky Ponting used to do is they moved leaning forward and as a result the area for the batsman gets squeezed while for us that is not the case as we are not moving in that manner inside the circle ,’’ he said.

‘’We must know why are we putting fielders inside the thirty yards simply because we want to stop our opponent from picking singles but we hardly managed to put that pressure on the opponent by moving that smartly and that helps the opponent from not having any extra pressure,’’ he said. 

Mahmud added that they need to recognize the strength of fielders in the boundary line as they need to put their fielders through balancing the chart.

‘’Everyone does not have the same strength who are fielding in the boundary line and we must make a proper plan taking this into consideration,’’ he said adding despite having catching session in almost every skill training sessions and still watching them spill easy catches is something he is yet to figure out.