BSP-28 Shakib expresses disappointment over the wicket

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Shakib expresses disappointment over the wicket

CHATTGORAM, Sept 6, 2019 (BSS)-Bangladesh skipper Shakib Al Hasan expressed his disappointment over the wicket, stating that they didn’t get the type of wicket that they wanted in the one-off Test against Afghanistan.

The visitors are in driving seat in the Test at the moment, reducing Bangladesh to 194-8 after amassing 342 in their first innings.

Bangladesh is struggling against Afghanistan in their maiden Test match as their finger-spinners failed to leave an impression against their opponent on the opening day of the Test and it is believed Afghans had picked the momentum from then onwards.

Afghan skipper Rashid Khan was instrumental in taking his side to the position of dominance.

Rashid contributed with batting, hitting his maiden Test fifty to push the side’s score closer to 350 that too against a four-man spin attack as they failed to extract anything from it while he tormented in the opponent batting with his wrist spin, picking

4-47 to help the Afghanistan tighten the noose.

”Certainly we are disappointed as we didn’t get the wicket we wanted considering you are well aware how we wanted to go with our playing XI,” Shakib said here at the post match press conference.

”We have finger spinners they have wrist spinners. That’s the only difference, I don’t see any other difference. Mohammad Nabi did well and took two wickets but our finger spinners took all 10 wickets. Their wrist spinners were more effective and we don’t have wrist spinners and in such flat wickets, it gets difficult if we don’t have wrist spinners. And because we did not expect this wicket, the situation is difficult for us,” he added.

Shakib however was straight-forward in disclosing his opinion about the wicket.

”We all are surprised. Because we did not expect anything like this, it’s totally opposite. But that doesn’t mean we won’t be able to do anything good. Sometimes things become different than what we expect. To become a good team you always have to know the answer when quizzed out of your box. So we will try to answer those questions. But obviously, we were nowhere near our expectation.”

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