2024-03-26 09:07:30
Bangladesh was defeated by Sri Lanka on the same ground where they had won against New Zealand. After the World Cup failure, Bangladesh hosted New Zealand. Bangladesh got a great win in the first match of Shantar’s captaincy in Sylhet. But within three months, a different picture was seen. A very poor performance against Sri Lanka is just a helpless Shantar team. Couldn’t score two hundred in either of the two innings. Fifty is just one. No century innings.
Bangladesh did such a faded performance at home after many days. But a series earlier Shantar’s century, Taijul’s brilliant bowling killed the hosts. What happened to a series break? Why such performance? He brought up the calm realities
Shanta commented, ‘While playing against New Zealand, I heard that we are improving a lot, doing well, many things have changed than before. I have heard this from you many times. So it’s not like it hasn’t changed at all. It can be said that the change has been minimal. From now on, there will be more progress. It may be slowly improving. It’s not like there hasn’t been improvement.’
In a calm manner, he explained not to expect much from them in a sudden success in a series. Because they have not changed much. Earlier in the day, Miraj also said, ‘There is a lack of skills. There is a lack of preparation.’ All in all, despite having all the opportunities to improve themselves, they are unable to move forward. But don’t want to stop the improvement process. Calm, looking forward to exploiting all the opportunities ahead.
In this context, the captain said, ‘I don’t think motivation should be derived from defeat. How well we prepare, how we think is important. This match is bad. We did not play well as a team in all aspects. We had our chances but couldn’t take them. I am focusing on how to be more prepared for the next match, not to make small mistakes.’