One match after another, but Nazmul Hossain Shanter’s bat is truly ‘quiet’. In this year’s T20 World Cup, Shantar’s four innings scores in the group stage—7, 14, 1 and 4. Total score is 26 runs. Even before a match, captain Nazmul Hossain Shanto said that he has no worries about his batting. However, he admitted to worrying about his batting after failing against Nepal on Monday.
After the match, the captain said about his batting, ‘Obviously it is a cause for concern (his batting). Batting like this does not seem to be a good side for the team. Getting off to a good start is important, we’re not getting off to a good start. Batters can’t even finish like that. Definitely cause for concern. We have to get out of here. There is always a lot of planning on how to get out, but this mistake happens over and over again. I hope that these mistakes can be reduced as much as possible in the next round.
Top-order batsmen have failed regularly in group stage matches. This failure continued against Nepal today. Tanjid Hasan Tamim hit golden duck, Nazmul Hossain Shanto 4, Liton Das 10, Tawhid Hriday returned 9 runs. The team’s highest innings came from Shakib Al Hasan’s bat of 17 runs off 22 balls. In total, the red-green jersey holders were bundled out for 106 runs with 3 balls to spare. The bowlers are bringing victory to the team in every match. It was the bowlers who paved the way for the win against the Proteas. But the batsmen could not reach that target.
Mentioning that such batting by the batsmen is not acceptable, the Bangladesh captain said in the press conference after the match, ‘It is actually not possible that the bowlers will win the match every day. Hope they win every match. Batters also have responsibilities. Why is not happening, everyone is trying to find out, but it is not happening. This is not acceptable. Honestly, this wicket was worth scoring 140-150 runs, we just couldn’t do it. Of course, it is a matter of concern for us.’
This year’s World T20 wicket batting is not helpful but the score is not that low. According to Shanta, ‘The whole tournament is not scoring very big. Most of the matches are getting such low runs. They depend and win. As I said, there were few runs, not so few wickets. There were wickets of 130-140 runs. All in all, I wouldn’t say a good flat wicket in this tournament.’
The Bangladesh camp was confident of winning even though they scored 106 runs on the scoreboard. After 10-15 overs of Bangladesh’s innings, the batsmen realize that the wicket is tough for batting. In this context, Shanto said, ‘Every player believes that it is possible to defend this run. the truth I won, I’m not saying that. When we talked to the players during the break, everyone believed we could win this match.’
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