‘We are not very good players of spin’, spinners hunt toothless Tigers
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After the Tigers were thrashed by South Africa for 332-runs in the second Test at Gqeberha on Monday, Bangladesh Test captain Mominul Haque said that majority of the national team players lack understanding of how to play quality spin.
In the first hour of the fourth day of their series-deciding Test today, South Africa spinners Simon Harmer and Keshav Maharaj combined for 15 Bangladesh wickets as the visitors knocked out the Tigers for a meager 80.
South Africa's spin combo had taken 14 wickets in the first Test in Durban, which the Tigers lost by 220 runs after being swept out for their second-lowest Test score.
In the last innings of both Tests, South Africa used just spinners from both ends, and Bangladesh surrendered all 10 of their second-innings wickets to these spinners.
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Bangladesh's strength has always been spin, regardless of the format. Mominul, on the other hand, did not shy away from revealing the truth, stating that only a few players in the Tigers' ranks have a proper understanding of how to play spin.
"We are not very good players of spin. Maybe hearing this will hurt us but the truth is that other than one or two players, no one in our team can play spin well. Maybe we play spin but we do not have the understanding of the proper way to play spin," said Mominul at the post-match press conference after their heavy defeat in the second Test.
"There is a fundamental difference between the wickets here and the wickets we get to play in the subcontinent. In the subcontinent, side spin is very effective. But here, the sidespin does not work well. Here [in overseas conditions] overspin is more effective,”
"Our spinners usually are adaptive to bowling sidespin at our home condition. So, for them to come here and start bowling overspin requires a lot of technical changes which is probably not entirely possible in a few days," explained Mominul.
