2024-05-18 11:50:48
The dialogue and criticism concerning the absence of Mohammad Saifuddin within the World Cup group has not stopped but. Chief selector Gazi Ashraf Hossain Lipu defined on the day of group announcement. Captain Nazmul Hossain Shanto has confronted the identical query this time.
After the official photograph session on Wednesday (Might 15, 2024), head coach Chandika Hathurusinghe and captain Shanto got here to the press convention collectively. When requested why Tanjim Hasan Shakib was taken as a substitute of Saifuddin, Shanto mentioned that Saifuddin couldn’t stay as much as expectations.
Shanto mentioned, ‘Tanjim Shakib’s pace is greater than Saifuddin. It was roughly what we anticipated from Saifuddin. Shakib shall be efficient wherever we play.’
‘Each have been shut. The group has thought. We really feel that Tanjim Shakib can do higher for the group’, Shanto added.
Chief selector Gazi Ashraf Hossain Lipu spoke in the identical tone yesterday, ‘Everybody fought very intently right here. The group I gave on the thirtieth was given in a context. There have been two ideas on making the group with present cricketers. One other thought was to see how cricketers like Saifuddin do once they come again from harm. Our place of belief. There, Tanzim was barely forward of Saifuddin. That is why we stored him within the group.’
Saifuddin performed 4 matches within the just lately concluded Zimbabwe sequence. The primary three in Chittagong and the final match in Dhaka. He was glorious within the first match in Chittagong, taking 3 wickets for 15 runs. Saifuddin’s performances within the subsequent three matches have been 37 for 1, 42 for 3 and 55 for 1 respectively.
It was Saifuddin’s fault that he gave runs at a vital time within the final match. Bangladesh misplaced this match ultimately. However, Tanjim Hasan Shakib performed two matches. He took 1 wicket with 26 runs within the 1st match in Chittagong, he didn’t get any wicket with 42 runs within the 4th match in Dhaka.