After a good start with the ball, taking two early wickets of India, Virat Kohli and Ajinkya Rahane’s 213 run stand in the third wicket saw Bangladesh to a six wicket defeat after posting the target of 280 and Abdur Razzak, who came in at the post match press conference in place of injured Mushfiqur Rahim informed that the dew factor was the main reason for the lose said at the Khan Shaheb Osman Ali Stadium yesterday.
“It was possible to defend a good total. But the big problem was dew. It was present from probably the 22nd or 23rd over. There is no way out from playing with dew, we have to play with what we have,” said Razzak.
But Ajinkya Rahane who scored 73 thought there was no dew factor when Bangladesh was on the field till the 40th over and earlier after the first match between Sri Lanka and Pakistan Lankan skipper Angelo Matthews also said that there was no dew factor when they fielded in the second innings.
“Well I don’t think there was no dew factor till the 40th over when Bangladesh was at the field and I think this should not affect them,” said Rahane
However Razzak went on and said that the dew factor was there and it will affect the other teams when they came to field on the second innings in Fatullah. “I don’t know what Angelo Mathews said but you will see in the next matches here, how the team fielding second will be hampered,” he said.
Bangladesh posted a target which would have defend by the Bangladeshi bowlers as Razzak said that the Bangladeshi bowlers did not bowl badly but Virat Kohli’s brilliant knock took the match away from the host, “I think our bowlers didn’t do too badly. Virat Kohli played really well, he did something special today,” he added.
Though Bangladesh initially took two early wickets where India after 13 overs was struggling on 54/2 Razzak informed that they tried everything to pressure the batsman but Indian batsman played well in that situation.
“They just played well in that situation. We already need to have four in the circle. At times I pulled in an extra fielder, but they still picked the singles,” he said.