Siddons: Slogging is not Bangladesh's game
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Bangladesh batting coach Jamie Siddons rued over the batters poor shot selection and stated the Tigers lack the ability of ‘slogging’ after the 104-run defeat against South Africa.
Bangladesh was skittled on 101 runs while chasing a massive 206 runs set by South Africa, all thanks to swashbuckling batter Rilee Rossouw's 106 runs.
"We aren't big six-hitters, we need to be a lot smarter. We hit the ball in the air way too much. The message was, go out there and bat, see how we go, we had a great start then everyone just wanted to hit the ball in the air. And that put us all under pressure,” said Siddons.
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"We got out to spin. It wasn't the pace. There was pace out there from one bowler, the rest it looked like we were managing quite nicely when we were playing good cricket shots. Then we turned to slogging, that's not our game. We can't do that,” he said.
"Our tactics have got to be a lot different to what Rossouw, de Kock did. We aren't going to win too many matches trying to hit a lot of sixes. Rossouw just clears the fence without even trying, that's not something we have the ability to do. He mis-hits sixes,"
Siddons also admitted that the Bangladesh batters had found it difficult to adjust with the conditions as they had never played a T20 in Australia.
"It's totally different to what we practice, play and grow up on. We found Hobart really fast for our batsmen, they were getting hurried, by not such fast bowlers, and today we had guys bowling 145-150kph. That played a part, but the two shots [in the third] over they were just bad shots, nothing to do with pace," he added.
