In-form pacer Taskin Ahmed is having an impressive tournament with the ball as the right-arm quick is admirably leading the Bangladesh pace attack with match-winning performances.
Taskin has taken eight wickets from four games in the Super 12 stage with an impressive economy rate of just seven, and earned two man-of-the-match awards against the Netherlands and Zimbabwe as Bangladesh emerged victorious on both occasions.
The 27-year old has provided breakthroughs in the very first over of the innings thrice in four games and also bowled brilliantly against India at the Adelaide Oval, especially during the powerplay.
Taskin's bowling figure against India was 4-0-15-0, including as many as 16 dot balls.
He now wants to sharpen himself more as a fast bowler and aiming to be a complete player as he believes there is always room for improvement.
“Every game is important for me. Maybe someday I will get a wicket, someday maybe not. But the process I am following is important and maintaining that process is also crucial. My aim is to improve myself in every practice session or game I take part. I want to be a complete player, I want to improve in every aspect and want to focus on improvement every time,” said Taskin after the practice session in Adelaide Friday.
Bangladesh lost narrowly against India yet again in Adelaide as the Tigers fell short by just five runs.
Liton provided a blistering start while chasing 185 and scored 60 off just 27 balls.
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Bangladesh were 66 for no loss from seven overs before rain interrupted proceedings.
The revised target in accordance with the Duckworth/Lewis method was 151 from 16 overs and thus Bangladesh needed 85 more runs from nine overs.
But they failed to score that many and eventually lost by five runs.
Taskin informed that the players were deeply hurt after their agonizing loss but are looking forward to finishing the tournament on a high note.
“We all felt bad whenever we lost a match. Even we felt difficulties in getting sleep after such kind of loss. But we have to take positives from these kinds of matches. We are playing good cricket. Hopefully we will finish this tournament on a good note,” said Taskin.
Bangladesh can still qualify for the last four but for that to happen South Africa have to lose against the Netherlands at the Adelaide Oval Sunday, which will be the day's first game, and then Bangladesh have to defeat Pakistan in the evening game at the same venue.
Taskin said players are determined to play the game in proper spirit and that they will fight hard for the win.
“Almost every game in this group has turned out interesting. Still, anything can happen, even miracles can happen as well. But our main target will be playing the last game with the same spirit like the four games we have played in this tournament so far. We will definitely try to win by playing good cricket. If we can win then calculation will come into play but our main target will be to win the next game,” Taskin concluded.
