Haturasingha against drastic changes

Bangladesh team returns home tonight

While they played outstanding cricket at home in the last two years, for Bangladesh the New Zealand tour was an acid test to prove that their cricket has come off age. It was Bangladesh’s first overseas tour since their cricketing renaissance at least in home condition. But at the end, they stayed winless in whole tour, making it 0-8. It wasn’t the result which the mass people could expect. While it was the first time that Bangladesh gave a tough fight to the opposition in all matches in any overseas tour, the outcome remained zero what created a huge furor in the country. Specially the manner in which they lost all of the games pointed a finger to the players’ ability to finish the game. 

Bangladesh were in position to win the last ODIs at least but the failure of middle order cost them the series. In T20 series, the openers failed miserably to script the team’s downfall. When they had lost ODI and T20 series, hardly anyone could imagine they could put a fight in lush green pitch against the Black Caps in Test series. But Bangladesh played the type of cricket in the first innings of first Test what even a mighty Test outfit could never play in New Zealand soil in the recent past. Shakib Al Hasan hit a double century (217), the country’s highest individual knock, eclipsing Tamim Iqbal’s 206 against Pakistan, while Mushfiqur Rahim made 159 as Bangladesh amassed almost 600 runs. They were in total control before Bangladesh tasted a familiar batting collapse in the second innings to loss the game. To make the matter worse, they also faced sensational collapse in the second innings of the second Test and lost the Test inside four days. Actually it would be three days since a total day was washed out due to rain. 
There were individual heroics, there was passionate fight but at the end the result was something what made the whole tour a forgettable series for Bangladesh.
There was call for drastic changes but Bangladesh coach Chandika Hathurusingha has warned against overreacting to the team's winless tour of New Zealand.
Hathurusingha told Bangladesh media in Christchurch yesterday said that the likes of Kamrul Islam Rabbi and Mehedi Hasan Miraz, on their first tour with Bangladesh, showed promising signs. Rabbi has been one of the few newcomers to impress on a tour in which five players made their international debuts across formats, and seven were on their first tour away from home.
"I am happy with their performance. It is not all doom and gloom. There are a lot of positives to build on. You can't just discard some of them or go overboard for what happened,” Hathurusingha said. 
“This experience will help Bangladesh cricket and will help these players to do much better in the future. The likes of Rabbi and Miraz had changed demeanour on the field from the England series to this tour. I can see them learning quickly."
Hathurusingha  said that Bangladesh are still some way off from being able to keep their intensity up over five days of a Test. 
“It is disappointing the way they approached not just in Christchurch but also in Wellington,” Hathurusingha said. "We are not still mentally strong enough or maybe it is a physical thing, which I don't know yet, to play five days in high intensity cricket.”
Bangladesh will depart from New Zealand at 9am BST today and reach the country at 10.40 pm. 

Haturasingha against drastic changes

Bangladesh team returns home tonight

While they played outstanding cricket at home in the last two years, for Bangladesh the New Zealand tour was an acid test to prove that their cricket has come off age. It was Bangladeshs first overseas tour since their cricketing renaissance at least in home condition. But at the end, they stayed winless in whole tour, making it 0-8. It wasnt the result which the mass people could expect. While it was the first time that Bangladesh gave a tough fight to the opposition in all matches in any overseas tour, the outcome remained zero what created a huge furor in the country. Specially the manner in which they lost all of the games pointed a finger to the players ability to finish the game. Bangladesh were in position to win the last ODIs at least but the failure of middle order cost them the series. In T20 series, the openers failed miserably to script the teams downfall. When they had lost ODI and T20 series, hardly anyone could imagine they could put a fight in lush green pitch against the Black Caps in Test series. But Bangladesh played the type of cricket in the first innings of first Test what even a mighty Test outfit could never play in New Zealand soil in the recent past. Shakib Al Hasan hit a double century (217), the countrys highest individual knock, eclipsing Tamim Iqbals 206 against Pakistan, while Mushfiqur Rahim made 159 as Bangladesh amassed almost 600 runs. They were in total control before Bangladesh tasted a familiar batting collapse in the second innings to loss the game. To make the matter worse, they also faced sensational collapse in the second innings of the second Test and lost the Test inside four days. Actually it would be three days since a total day was washed out due to rain. There were individual heroics, there was passionate fight but at the end the result was something what made the whole tour a forgettable series for Bangladesh. There was call for drastic changes but Bangladesh coach Chandika Hathurusingha has warned against overreacting to the teams winless tour of New Zealand. Hathurusingha told Bangladesh media in Christchurch yesterday said that the likes of Kamrul Islam Rabbi and Mehedi Hasan Miraz, on their first tour with Bangladesh, showed promising signs. Rabbi has been one of the few newcomers to impress on a tour in which five players made their international debuts across formats, and seven were on their first tour away from home. I am happy with their performance. It is not all doom and gloom. There are a lot of positives to build on. You cant just discard some of them or go overboard for what happened, Hathurusingha said. This experience will help Bangladesh cricket and will help these players to do much better in the future. The likes of Rabbi and Miraz had changed demeanour on the field from the England series to this tour. I can see them learning quickly. Hathurusingha said that Bangladesh are still some way off from being able to keep their intensity up over five days of a Test. It is disappointing the way they approached not just in Christchurch but also in Wellington, Hathurusingha said. We are not still mentally strong enough or maybe it is a physical thing, which I dont know yet, to play five days in high intensity cricket. Bangladesh will depart from New Zealand at 9am BST today and reach the country at 10.40 pm.