2024-09-12 23:28:38
Two cricketers then went to two poles with wicket keeping. Mushfiqur Rahim and Liton Das. Mushfiqur Rahim’s thoughts on keeping are known to everyone. Keeping is so ingrained in his mind, it is a process of batting for him. But his teammate Liton Das simply admits, keeping never helps with batting.
Mushfiqur made his debut as a specialist batsman against England at Lord’s in 2005. Khaled Masood Pilot stood behind the wicket for Bangladesh at that time. After retiring as a pilot in 2007, Mushfiqur’s career as a wicketkeeper began.
Mushfiqur’s wicket-keeping has been questioned many times despite becoming a symbol of reliability in batting. He was removed from this role due to catching behind the wicket, missing run outs.
However, his thoughts on wicket-keeping were, ‘Keeping that I say helps me a lot. Not like keeping, I’ll make a hundred or two hundreds every match. But keeping is a process and I am a big believer in this process. I think it helps a lot.’
The gloves have been taken from Mushfiqur by a lot of ‘force’. The team management has done this to keep him fully focused on batting. The statistics speak for the team management.
Mushfiqur has kept 55 Tests in 90 Tests. Where he scored 3515 runs in 104 innings. Batting Average 37.00. Where there are 6 centuries and 16 fifties. Scored a career best 219 runs keeping wickets. Mufiq’s 2377 runs in 62 innings in 35 Tests without keeping. Batting average 42.44. There are 5 centuries, 11 fifties. There is also a double century (203*) during this period. He also scored 175* against Sri Lanka and 191 against Pakistan.
Lytton is now the team’s wicket-keeper batsman. Along with keeping for a long time, he is also batting well. Litton played 43 Tests and played 32 Tests as a wicket keeper. Scored 2088 runs at an average of 40.94. Keeping all three of the 4 centuries. 14 out of 17 fifty came during this time. This cricketer said very openly about keeping, he sees keeping as a part of the game, ‘keeping never helps batting. Keeping is a part. If I am fielding, then the way of fielding, the keeping thing is also the same.
Liton rather emphasizes the experience, ‘I have been playing cricket for almost 9-10 years. That’s the experience. Now is the time to take responsibility. If there is no responsibility now, then when? It’s time to take charge, it’s not that I have to take charge every game. I am human, can make mistakes.’
Liton spoke openly about his batting, ‘It’s not that I play too much attacking. I try to score on what I think is the ball in the scoring zone. And of course, in any format now, you will see that runs are much more important. If you think about the last game or the game before that, I couldn’t go to one place and get a run.’