Liton recalls his comeback knock against SL
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|| CF Correspondent ||
Wicket Keeper batsman Liton Kumar Das said the innings he played against Sri Lanka at the home territory that revived his career in Test.
Sri Lanka came to tour in Bangladesh in 2018, where he made a golden duck in the first innings of the first Test that was his comeback Test.
Liton was bowled to leave the ball because of his misjudgment of the Lankan pacer Suranga Lakmal’s delivery that uprooted stumps outstandingly.
However, the failure in first-innings didn’t hold on him as he scored an aggressive 94 in the second innings that laced with 11 boundaries.
In a Facebook live session, Tamim Iqbal asked Liton what was his mindset in the second innings where he scored such an aggressive 94 against Sri Lanka as Tamim still remembers it.
Before that Test, Liton was having lots of pressure on him, even if he hadn’t scored in that match he wouldn’t be able to play next with the team.
The right-handed batsman replied to Tamim that the bad luck always kept him back in the national team no matter how good he plays in domestic cricket.
The same thing happened in the first innings where he got bowled out while leaving the ball.
He said that he worked with the video analyst after the innings and figured out the mistake he had made in the match.
“I was left out of the team before that Test. I didn’t play in many Tests. I joined the team after a long break and I bowled out in the first ball of the first innings first bowl after returning to the Test team. Back of the mind, this thing was burning my mind as I came to the fold after performing well in the domestic circuit,” Liton Das said.
“But again the bad patch started after coming into the national team. Since then, I worked with video analyst Panish. I went to his room and watched why I got out. I always try to place my right foot in front of the middle stump and my left leg in front of leg stump while batting in domestic cricket. But in that match, my right leg was in front of leg stump and the left leg was outside of the leg. Which is why, I thought it was outside but it wasn’t,” Liton added.
“So I saw that on the next day and tried to do the same thing I try to do in domestic in my next innings middle-leg and to say about my mind set up as we were back footed at that time.”
“I thought I had to do something. I tried to enjoy my batting and try to take something from there. As I’ve lost now so I've an option to take. If I hit a duck so it would be the same but if I score big then I might have something,” he concluded.
