|| CF Correspondent ||
Bangladesh Test skipper Mominul Haque said he feels Bangladesh is not clicking as a unit in the Test format in recent past but added he don’t agree that they are exposed against quality pace bowlers despite it was the case in Pakistan and India.
Bangladesh has lost all of their last six Tests. Among them, five were innings defeats. The one which was not was a defeat to Afghanistan on home soil.
‘’We are not performing as a team. This is not an individual sport like athletics or chess. Cricket is a team game and we are not playing as team. Bowling, batting or fielding wise we aren't clicking as a team that will bring out a result,’’ said Mominul
‘’Big teams that perform they play as a team and they make big partnerships. We are not having that regularly. That's why most of the batsmen are failing after scoring few runs. If you are putting up a big partnership that changes the environment in the dressing room too. And not only in batting you need to have partnership in bowling and fielding as well. Suppose you made a brilliant stop and someone else just followed that with a brilliant run out that's how it clicks,’’ he said.
‘’When we go abroad, they make pacer friendly wickets. Not only us, it's same for any team against India. One series should not be seen as the benchmark,’’ he said adding he admits that they played badly in Pakistan.
‘’Yes, we made some mistakes there. In Pakistan series, the wicket we batted on, we should not have lost the match in four days. We should have batted better. At least we should have drawn. Maybe we didn't understand the situation. We couldn't read how we should have played in particular situations,’’ he said.
Mominul added that he feels that against Zimbabwe the biggest challenge lies in performing as a unit more than anything else.
‘’This is an opportunity. We have Pakistan series after Zimbabwe series. This is a good opportunity for everyone to play as a team. We have to build up well as team. Not looking at personal achievements,’’ said Mominul.
‘’We bowled well against Pakistan and it indicates that our pace bowlers are improving. So I think we should make an opportunity where pacers can perform when we will play in the upcoming series [against Zimbabwe] because it will also be beneficial when we will be playing outside home. And I believe it will also help our batsmen to prepare better because we have lot of matches outside home as well in the coming days,’’ he said.