Tigers return home
Teams achievement great, says Mash
Sports Reporter
Bangladesh national cricket team returned home yesterday after the completion of their 53-day-long tours in United Kingdom and Ireland successfully. They reached at the Hazrat Shahjalal International Airport 30 minutes behind their schedule time following a long-air-journey from Birmingham via Dubai. Only Mushfiqur Rahim, Shakib Al Hasan and Imrul Kayes among the players have not come with the team. The trio will come after witnessing the mouth-watering final between Pakistan and India to be held at the Oval today. Leaving Dhaka on April 26, Tigers held a 10-day camp in Sussex before heading to Ireland to play tri-nation series with New Zealand and the hosts Ireland, where they became runner-up beating New Zealand. The visitors then started their campaign in Champions Trophy, wherein they demonstrated their best-ever performance. Being drawn in tough group, they cruised to semifinals overtrumping top-flight teams like Australia and New Zealand.
This time they beat New Zealand in the make or break encounter to reach the semifinal. One-day captain Mashrafe Bin Mortaza spoke to media after landing in airport, where he answered to the media queries on different issues. Mashrafe tipped the performance of Bangladesh team in Champions Trophy as the great achievement, stating that they missed to grab the chance to play in the final of the extravaganza event.
We have played in semifinal. That was a biggest matter for us especially from what group we played. Its not so easy thing for us, said Mashrafe Bin Mortaza.
May be we had good opportunity but we could not grab it. Because at knock-out stage chance is not always there, Mashrafe told newsmen at airport.
He said that if they could take lesson from the errors what they did in the tournament then they will do better in the next World Cup to be held in England in 2019.
When we could not enough score on the board, bowlers may be entered into the shell. I think they should not do it what I earlier told that. Actually we should have fought what we have accumulated, the ODI skipper said.
For this I told that it is our learning period how bowlers will bowl and batsmen will bat on such surface to defend our total. If we could learn from it, Inshaallah we will do better in the next World Cup, he also said. He thinks that young players performance was not up to the mark what is expected from them. But if they could keep them up then they will perform better in the 2019 World Cup after two years.
Its not so easy for young players to perform at this stage Those who are we have in the team have a great future for them. If you say the 2019 World Cup, I will then say that they will play with more responsibility. They all will be matured more after the two years, he said. But it is time to be improved themselves. The level they could get to play they should improve their level of playing. If they could take it seriously, I am sure, they will do better performance in 2019 WC, Mashrafe thought.
