‘Dressing room wasn't the happiest. Everyone wanted to win’, Tamim says after sealing ODI series
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Bangladesh maintained their dominance over the West Indies in 50-over cricket, recording their tenth successive victory on Wednesday and taking an unassailable 2-0 lead in the three-match series.
Beaten by six wickets in the first match at the same venue on Sunday, the home batters were even more inept in being dismissed for 108 off 35 overs.
Having been swept 2-0 in both the preceding Test and T20 International series, the tourists extended the ODI dominance of their present foes in reaching the modest target with almost 30 overs to spare.
Tamim Iqbal led the comfortable pursuit of such a modest target, sealing victory and reaching a 53rd ODI half-century with his seventh boundary.
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"At the beginning of the series, I told this is one format we are really proud of and played really well. And we lost the test and T20 series, the dressing room wasn't the happiest. Everyone wanted to win," said Bangladesh captain in the post-match presentation ceremony.
"This is really good, there are a lot of areas we need to tick boxes. The 2023 World Cup probably will be one of the biggest events for all of us, especially the four of us who most likely end there and we have to make the best possible combination and best possible team going forward."
Nasum Ahmed, in his second ODI, went through the Windies top order, picking up his maiden wicket and finishing with three wickets for 19 runs in ten overs, including four maidens and 48 dot deliveries.
Tamim did not hold back in applauding his star player, who was duly named player-of-the-match.
"He's [Nasum Ahmed] brilliant. When Shakib is here, he doesn't get a game, I think he bowled unbelievably, used the conditions very well," said Tamim, who is inclined to carry his 'simple' approach to batting.
"Even in the test matches, whatever runs I got I was batting well, what wrong I did was I didn't make big. I take it very simple, I just go with the rhythm and see what the situation is, for now it's going well for me," said the Bangladesh skipper.
