Bangladesh stand-in skipper Nazmul Hossain Shanto urged the authorities to prepare better wickets in home conditions in order to adapt to high-scoring totals in white-ball cricket.
Tigers’ batters have struggled to score quickly even on good batting wickets in the ongoing World Cup.
Scoring 300 runs in a 50-over match seems to be the bare minimum for teams in recent years on batting-friendly wickets.
But Bangladesh managed to post just one 300-plus score, against Australia in Pune Saturday, in their nine games.
Shanto requested the board to prepare more sporting wickets so that the batters can get habituated to making more runs and bowlers can also have the practice of defending 300-plus scores.
“We are not a poor batting unit. We came here well prepared, but we didn’t get the result. We want sporting wickets in home One Day Internationals and Twenty20 internationals. Bowlers will learn how to defend 300 runs on a good wicket. I am sure the board is thinking about these type of wickets,” said Shanto.
“We made 306 against this bowling line-up, so definitely our batters had the confidence. If we didn’t have those two run outs, and had a big partnership in the middle overs, maybe we could have scored 350. But it’s also true that we need to play on better pitches. We know how to score 260 but we need to grow the habit of scoring 300-350 runs.”
