2024-09-25 08:07:47
National selector Hannan Sarkar left the shiny team hotel a few minutes before the scheduled time. Black sunglasses. He is ready to talk to the media. With Bangladesh Cricket Board (BCB) Senior Media Manager Rabid Imam.
If everything was right, the whole team including Hannan would have stayed cheap. There was no work on the fifth day today, Monday (September 23) as the game was over in four days. After playing for four consecutive days, the cricketers did not go for practice today.
From coach-cricketers to managers, the day is spent in rest, performance debriefing, team meeting, walking around. The coaching staff criticized the performance of the cricketers around 11 o’clock. Everyone’s performance is analyzed on this day.
Bangladesh lost the first test against India by 280 runs. Even though the bowlers gave a great start, the failure of the batsmen had to taste the bitter taste of such a big loss. Bangladesh scored only 149 runs in the first innings. Maximum 32 runs came from the bat of Shakib Al Hasan. But India made 376 runs!
After India’s second innings, Bangladesh set a target of 515 runs. Bangladesh can score only 234 runs. The maximum 83 runs came from the bat of Nazmul Hossain Shantar. Three centuries have been scored in two innings where only 1 fifty comes from the Bangladeshi batsmen. Red-green representatives want to go on the back foot here.
Today’s meeting is mainly about batting performance. Accountability has been sought especially for getting out on wrong shots/unnecessary shots. The batters have been repeatedly told not to make such a mistake in the future.
A member told RisingBD, ‘Many of us got out by playing unnecessary shots by mistake. We have been told not to. Hope something good will happen in Kanpur.’
Apart from this, there was a meeting of coaches, captains and selectors. It is said that there was a discussion about the T20 series squad including the Kanpur Test team. After the meeting, the management members along with the cricketers went out to see the city of Chennai.
The Bangladesh team will go to Kanpur on a chartered flight tomorrow Tuesday at 1:30 p.m. After two days of practice on September 25 and 26, the second Test will start from September 27.