It wasn’t tough to predict what kind of wicket the Sheikh Abu Naser Stadium will present when someone would be watching the wicket even from a far distance. It’s an absolute flat with no grass on it. Dusts are flying off the surface placed in centre of the lash green ground.
According to the pitch curator Zahid Reza Babu, it’s a wicket to produce 170-180 regularly. The low scoring match in the recently concluded Bangladesh Premier League (BPL) might keep anyone pessimistic about the wicket of the T20 series between Bangladesh and Zimbabwe but there was instruction from the team management to prepare a batting wicket.
“The wickets in the BPL weren’t that good for batting. I don’t think such wickets are present in any part of the world, especially at this point of time. In India scores like 170 and 180 take place regularly. Even in Australia. We have to target that we come to know the defendable score in a particular wicket after batting for an over,” Bangladesh captain Mashrafe Bin Mortaza said.