Siddons praises juniors, hopeful seniors will step up
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Jamie Siddons, Bangladesh's new batting coach, who is a former Tiger head coach has praised Afif Hossain and Mehedi Hasan Miraz’s astonishing knocks to seize victory from the jaws of defeat in the first ODI against Afghanistan on Wednesday.
The left-handed Afif and right-handed Miraz, coming in at No 7 and 8 respectively, added 174 - the highest seventh-wicket stand for Bangladesh in ODIs - after the home side were shockingly reduced to 45/6.
Siddons has confessed that the top-order failure is not good for the batting coach but thanks to the young duo, who sealed the victory for the Tigers.
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“Last night was our first game I had one training session with the national team and then we played our first game last night obviously we got over the line with a win that was quite easy in the end but quite hard at the start we lost six for 40 to kick us off, which is not good for the batting coach but guys by the name of Miraz and Afif, two young boys in the team had 160 (174) runs partnership and got us over the line with still 10-15 balls to spare,” Siddons said in a video on his Facebook page Thursday.
Four senior players were in the squad but couldn’t create that much impact in the first ODI. However, the Australian coach has faith that they will step up soon, in fact in tomorrow’s [Friday] match.
“So an amazing win to start our series. Hopefully, we can have an easier one tomorrow. Some great talent here. I love the way those boys played last night and I’m sure there’s going to be many more of those innings from the young players and the senior players will definitely step up. There are stars in Bangladesh, there are stars in international cricket like Shakib [al Hasan], Tamim [Iqbal], Mushfiq [Rahim], Riyad [Mahmudullah] will all step up at some time in this series. Hopefully, that’s tomorrow” he added.
