2024-07-26 20:01:55
As brilliant as Marufa Akhtar’s bowling beauty is with the new ball, the opposite is true in the death overs. The right-arm pace bowler is quite effective early on. But in the end, the run fountain ran. Which is a cause of concern in T20 cricket. Because of this, this promising pacer lost his place from the eleventh. Marufa can paint the end like the beginning, looking for that way.
Hopefully, the team management has a lot of confidence in him. Marufa was left out of the XI against Malaysia in the last match of the group stage in the Asia Cup. Jahanara Alam returned to the national team after a year in his place. Jahanara made his comeback with 1 wicket for 20 runs in 4 overs.
However, the team’s head coach Hasan Thilakaratne assured that the spotlight will not go away from Marufa, ‘In fact, we can see that Marufa is becoming expensive in the death overs. Because of this, Marufa has not been able to finish its quota over for more than a year. Because of this, we have to bowl him till the 17th over. But we have a plan to get him in full swing. That’s how we work. Trying to bring some variety in the bowling, adding some slower ones, giving some yorkers. At the ‘power play’ end, the emphasis is on bowling variety. A bowling coach is also working with him. Hopefully he will do better day by day.’
Marufa knows very well that he needs to improve himself in death bowling. The right-handed pacer is looking at that. Marufa told Cricbuzz, ‘Honestly, the new ball has swing but in the death overs my bowling is getting out of control. Bowling in death overs is very important in T20 cricket and it is being worked on. Pace variation has not been worked on before. is being done now. Inswing is my natural. But it is difficult to survive on it alone. Good success in death overs requires variety. That’s why cutters, yorkers and slowers are being worked on.’