More specialist bowlers than batsmen in the playing XI and a better fielding performance than England gave Bangladesh a decisive 3–0 T20I series win, according to their victorious captain, shakib al hassan, The home team completed their whitewash with a 16-run victory in the third game, after engineering a mid-innings batting collapse and then reducing England’s runs in the last five overs.
A similar bowling performance played a key role in Bangladesh’s victory in the first two T20Is as well. Hasan Mahmood bowled two brilliant overs at the end of the England innings in first game in chattogramWhich enabled Bangladesh to chase down the target of 157 runs. Defeated by four wickets.
Shakib said that, instead of playing eight batsmen, he chose to cushion the bowling options. In the third game, the depth of the bowling came in handy in the latter part of the innings when both jos buttler And david malan Fell in the 14th over; Mustafizur Rahman Malan was removed while Butler was run out on the next ball. Mehdi’s direct hit highlighted a fielding effort that saw marked improvement in his ground fielding and catching.
Shakib said, ‘Our bowling unit was very good in this series.’ “We never had the luxury of playing six proper bowlers as we often played with eight batsmen. We were always one bowler short. In T20s, you need that.” [bowling] Pillow. Bowlers win you T20 matches, so having an extra bowler helps. We have a few more areas for tuning, thinking about the next World Cup, but we have made a good start. I think the turning point of the match was that over. He lost both his set batsmen on consecutive balls. This proved decisive.
“Everyone looked at our fielding in these three matches. We got England out, who are a good fielding team themselves. That’s a big tick mark. Our biggest improvement is in our fielding, when I look at every aspect I think about it. We should always field well.” But we have aimed to be the best fielding side in Asia. After this performance, I don’t think we are far behind.”
Shakib praised the method Liton Das Form came back as the opener scored a career-best 73 in a short span of time. He added 84 runs for the second wicket with the Player of the Series. Najmul Hussain Shanto, The pair’s running between the wickets especially impresses the captain.
Shakib said, “We didn’t know how many runs were enough on this pitch. So we were very open-minded.” “We thought 140 was a good score at first. Then we got to a position when we thought our total would be 170-180. We didn’t score much in the last five overs, but we batted well in the powerplay and middle-order. over.
“They’ve got seven or eight right bowlers so we’ve had to struggle at least once in an innings,” he said. “The way Ronnie and Liton started, and then Shanto and Liton built the innings, especially their running between the wickets, it was brilliant. The way they converted one into two and two into three, it Put England under pressure.”
Bangladesh’s sudden rise in the T20I format had a lot to do with its proximity to the BPL and the selectors’ desire to extract the best from the tournament, which ended only three weeks before the series. “Everyone in this team performed well in this year’s BPL,” Shakib said. “Not too long ago the England tour. The top five-six batsmen in this series were also the highest run-getters in the BPL. It’s the same for the highest wicket-takers. The confidence carried over, so I think That really helped us.”
Shakib also told the long term story of how this team gained confidence in T20Is. they believe it goes back Asia Cup last year When he took over the captaincy, but the real belief that he could win against the leading teams came in the T20 World Cup when Bangladesh won two matches for the first time in history,
“I have been leading the team since the Asia Cup last year,” he said. “We didn’t win a match there, but I thought we played good cricket. We were unlucky not to reach the semi-finals of the T20 World Cup. We were one win away from achieving that. We had a lot of doubts earlier.” tournament, but believe we can compete with the big teams starting from the World Cup.”
England’s lack of batting depth also contributed to their success as Bangladesh knew that three or four wickets would bring them down the order. “We had more confidence before this series because we were playing at home,” Shakib said. “We took advantage of the lack of batsmen in England. It was our advantage that they didn’t have many batsmen after losing three or four wickets.”