The host Bangladesh has been knocked out of the Chittagong Test in a sense by poor bowling, surprising reviews, bad fielding and bad batting. At the end of the second day on Saturday, the batting line-up of Bangladesh collapsed suddenly on the morning of the third day. Sri Lanka scored 531 runs on the batting friendly wicket of Chittagong, Bangladesh were all out for 178 runs in the first innings! However, Bangladeshi cricketers do not know the reason for such bad batting.
Shantar’s team went into bat with 55 runs on the third day of the match on Sunday. Despite having a wicket in hand, the hosts could not capitalize on the day. Bangladesh are all out after scoring 123 runs in two sessions. The only achievement of Bangladesh in this Test is to pick up 6 wickets for 102 runs by the Lankans in the last session today. It remains to be seen how much Bangladesh can extend the loss on the fourth day tomorrow. Meanwhile, the Lankans are ahead by 455 runs. To see where tomorrow stops. The record of winning by chasing such a big target does not exist in Tests. Naturally, Shantar’s team was knocked out of the Chittagong Test.
At the end of the day, Zakir Hasan, the only half-century scorer, could not explain such batting. Zakir, who played an innings of 54 runs in the first innings, said, ‘Actually, what else can I say, we failed completely. None of us could perform as per merit. I think that we could not fulfill the role that we had.
Asked what is Bangladesh’s plan before batting, Zakir said, ‘It depends on the situation. It may be that if the night watchman comes down towards the last or the bowler is batting then maybe batting the bowler safely. Actually, that’s the next step. But we couldn’t do what we had to do.’
Although Zakir said that due to excess wind in Chittagong, they had problems in batting, ‘today many wickets fell due to excess wind. Besides, everything was fine. Wicket wise everything was good. But it actually becomes an excuse. We should have played well on a batting friendly wicket in Chittagong. But none of us could.’
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