
When Liton thanked the audience in the gallery and said, “I will make you laugh next time,” the gallery was a broken market. After seeing their favorite team get whitewashed like this, no one wanted to suffer the inconvenience of traffic jams on their way home. They are extremely disappointed with this team, and many of them have complained about several batsmen of the team to several YouTube channels.
How will Bangladesh survive in modern T20 cricket with a team of batsmen who cannot play any shots outside the leg side? The question was asked to captain Liton Das who came to the press conference. ‘Look, the more skilled the batsmen are, the more they will be able to apply it in the match. In today’s cricket, you will see many batsmen playing sweeps and reverse sweeps well on a spinning wicket. We cannot play that. This matter is often a matter of the batsman’s own skill.’
Liton tried to hide Zaker’s bad habit of hitting with the leg side in this way. He also brought up the issue of dew falling on the field after evening to lose the match. ‘We have no control over nature. Unfortunately, in our first two matches, there was not so much dew on the field in the second innings. But today was an exception. There was a lot of dew in the second innings. Our bowlers could not grip the ball well.’
Hearing Liton’s words, the journalist sitting next to him sneered, ‘I knew that if we lose, we will have to drag the dew.’ Was the match only due to dew? Did the captain expect to win the match by scoring only 151 runs? ‘But we have not scored more than 165 runs in this series. It would have been better if we had a few more runs. But we also missed some catches.’
Before the series started, he asked for ‘pressure’. Liton continued by reminding me of that. ‘Yes, I really wanted pressure. But I also wanted to recover from it. We got that pressure from the opponent in all three matches, unfortunately we couldn’t handle that pressure from there.’
Without any hesitation, the question is asked directly – your fans are very disappointed with this team, no one in the middle order can score runs. What changes do you want to make in this team before the World Cup? ‘I think all the players in this team are proven cricketers, they have performed on the field before. However, they may be a little tired because they have played a lot in the last few months. If they get some rest, everything will be fine. They will get at least 10-12 days of rest before the next T20 series. If they get that, everything will be fine.’
But will he go to the World Cup with Towhid Hridoy, Shamim Hossain, Nurul Hasan Sohan, Zaker Ali? Before the World Cup, there is a series against Ireland at home and a tri-nation series against Pakistan in Sri Lanka in December. Can’t we see someone new in the next series? He expressed his discouragement by saying that there is a risk with newcomers. However, he could not hide his disappointment with the current squad even if he tried. ‘If we have skilled cricketers in our team, then they will have a variety of shots. That would definitely be good. In fact, we are behind many in this aspect in modern cricket.’
He did not mention anyone’s name like he had expressed his disappointment with Shamim Hossain during the series. He admitted his failure and regretted not getting runs. ‘I may have had some rest before this series due to injury, but I could not score as many runs as expected. The rest of the team has been playing consecutive matches since the Netherlands series. After the Asia Cup, the Afghanistan series, and from there this West Indies series. Most of the team’s cricketers have been playing consecutive matches. Hopefully, everyone will be able to return to their previous form after some rest.’ Liton said it right, but none of the audience in front seemed to believe him.