Shakib: Now we feel very much unbeatable at home

Ace Bangladesh all-rounder Shakib al Hasan believes they can beat any team at home if they play according to their potential. “It’s been a long journey,” Shakib told the Guardian. “It’s been incredible. I don’t think many people thought – even in Bangladesh – that we can come this far,” he said.

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Shakib credits foreign coaches for their improvement in fitness and professionalism and has observed how Bangladesh’s cricket infrastructure has been lifted as investment has increased. “We knew that we have this ability, and we needed that belief, and we can only get this belief by winning matches,” he says. “But there is no shortage of self-belief at this moment…Now we feel that we are very much unbeatable at home – doesn’t matter who we are playing against. So this is the belief that makes a team a very good team, and a winning team,” he added.