Bangladesh U-21 hockey coach and former national defender Mamunur Rashid believes the fitness level of his team has reached the peak during their tour of India.
The U-21 hockey team returned to the capital on Sunday night completing their 12-day tour in which they won six matches out of the seven played as the only defeat came against the Haryana XI. Mamun thinks the players coped well with the conditions and said, “Playing seven matches in nine days presents the picture of the players fitness, there are no injury, the tour boosted the confidence of the team ahead of the final challenges.”
Meanwhile Mohammad Sarwar, the captain of the team thinks they need to improve the rate of the penalty corner conversion and the link between the defence and midfield. “The rate of our penalty conversion was 40 percent, we have to work on it and we have to work on the building the quick link between the defence and the midfield, on the whole we tried to apply the strategies that the coach tried to insert, the tour was a good one,” said Sarwar.
Bangladesh, Chinese Taipei, Oman, Sri Lanka and Thailand play in the meet that starts from November 30 and concludes on December 7.
