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“We have played six one-day matches with the BCB High Performance team and a few of us have played the first round in the National Cricket League also. So overall, we had good match preparation. Hopefully we will be able to do our job well in the one-day series and get good results for the team,” Saif told the media Tuesday. “As captain of the team, I will always like to win the series and given we are playing Afghanistan, our ambition will be for a whitewash. But we should not forget that they are a good side. Playing well against them should get us easy wins,” the Bangladesh U-19 captain added. Saif, who got picked by Khulna Titans for the BPL T20 2017, thinks combination of the experienced and new players in the Bangladesh U-19 team has taken good shape. However, the side want to take one step at a time. “World Cup is our target but like any other team, we want to take each game as it comes. Now it’s the Afghanistan series, followed by the Asia Cup. Taking one step at a time will make our job in the World Cup easy and give the team a good shape,” Saif explained.
