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Behind the big loss against strong Australia, Bangladesh women team’s vice captain Nahida Akhter blamed the haphazard bowling in the middle overs as Australia made 213 runs despite losing 5 wickets for 78 runs. Nahida thinks that their ability is more than this.

After that failure in bowling, the batting collapsed and the hosts lost the match by a huge margin of 118 runs. Vice-captain Nahida, who came to the press conference as the team's representative, explained the difference between two teams.

“If I say the difference (of the two teams) - the bowling has been bad. We can do better. And we went behind due to 2-3 run-outs during batting. In the middle they settled down, form a partnership. If it was broken earlier, the picture would have been different.” Nadia said.

Chasing a target of 214 runs, the pressure of losing 2 quick wickets in batting was handled a little but the collapse could not be prevented after 3 quick run outs.

“We just wanted to build partnerships. We had a message that the longer we stay, the easier the batting will be. I think Annabel (Sutherland) showed that very well. She came off the pitch in a tough time, faced first 30 balls with caution. Then you saw her playing with her hands open. On a pitch like that, you have to go down and do the hard work at the beginning, then you get the reward at the end.” she added.