Bangladesh captain Shakib Al Hasan owned up to his team's relaxed mindset against Zimbabwe. The demoralising defeats in the one-dayers and the Test match have moved the team into realisation of what could have been, though later than he would have liked.
“I think we believed that we'd win and someone would do the job. But we never thought that, 'I would be the one,'” said Shakib during training at the Queens Sports Club here yesterday.
“Whenever we've played against them [Zimbabwe], someone has played a big innings. I think that responsibility wasn't carried out, though I'm sure everyone tried,” he added.
Shakib went deep into the way of thinking among his teammates but believed an extra push was missing.
“Nobody wants to get out, but there's an extra hunger not to get out. I think we were slightly relaxed since we haven't lost to them in five years. But it is hard to say because I wouldn't understand every player's inner feelings,” he said.
Shakib said the end of the Test match a week or so ago was when it hit the Tigers that it could have been a great opportunity to notch up their fourth Test win in history, but it came too late.
“What happens is that sometimes we realise what we've missed after it happens. After we lost the Test, we realised that it would've been only our fourth win. We don't know when it might come again.
“If we could realise these things earlier, it would definitely help us,” said Shakib.
But the fight that was put up with the bat in the last game in Harare has encouraged the skipper.
“It looked like we fought. Nobody gave up until the end which was good. I thought there was a lack of fighting mentality in the previous matches,” he said, adding that the four dropped catches made a lot of a difference.
“We know it since we were young that 'catches win matches'. [Tatenda] Taibu ended up scoring 80-odd and even later, if Chigumbura wasn't dropped that early, they would have scored 220 at best,” said the left-handed all-rounder who showed a blister on his spinning finger that bothered him during the game on Tuesday.
With the team already 3-0 down, the possibility of a whitewash is already being talked about. Shakib, however, is banking on some confidence from the last game as well as the Tigers' previous record at this venue.
A series defeat after five years against Zimbabwe is especially hard to digest for Shakib, who is experiencing it for the second time (the first was in 2006 when he made his debut in the fifth one-dayer of the lost series), but has accepted that it is easier to learn from defeats.
“It is hard to accept so many defeats, that too against them. But I think there're a lot of things to learn from losses than a win.
“It will remain as a huge lesson for the future,” said Shakib.
Source: http://www.thedailystar.net/newDesign/news-details.php?nid=199223
“I think we believed that we'd win and someone would do the job. But we never thought that, 'I would be the one,'” said Shakib during training at the Queens Sports Club here yesterday.
“Whenever we've played against them [Zimbabwe], someone has played a big innings. I think that responsibility wasn't carried out, though I'm sure everyone tried,” he added.
Shakib went deep into the way of thinking among his teammates but believed an extra push was missing.
“Nobody wants to get out, but there's an extra hunger not to get out. I think we were slightly relaxed since we haven't lost to them in five years. But it is hard to say because I wouldn't understand every player's inner feelings,” he said.
Shakib said the end of the Test match a week or so ago was when it hit the Tigers that it could have been a great opportunity to notch up their fourth Test win in history, but it came too late.
“What happens is that sometimes we realise what we've missed after it happens. After we lost the Test, we realised that it would've been only our fourth win. We don't know when it might come again.
“If we could realise these things earlier, it would definitely help us,” said Shakib.
But the fight that was put up with the bat in the last game in Harare has encouraged the skipper.
“It looked like we fought. Nobody gave up until the end which was good. I thought there was a lack of fighting mentality in the previous matches,” he said, adding that the four dropped catches made a lot of a difference.
“We know it since we were young that 'catches win matches'. [Tatenda] Taibu ended up scoring 80-odd and even later, if Chigumbura wasn't dropped that early, they would have scored 220 at best,” said the left-handed all-rounder who showed a blister on his spinning finger that bothered him during the game on Tuesday.
With the team already 3-0 down, the possibility of a whitewash is already being talked about. Shakib, however, is banking on some confidence from the last game as well as the Tigers' previous record at this venue.
A series defeat after five years against Zimbabwe is especially hard to digest for Shakib, who is experiencing it for the second time (the first was in 2006 when he made his debut in the fifth one-dayer of the lost series), but has accepted that it is easier to learn from defeats.
“It is hard to accept so many defeats, that too against them. But I think there're a lot of things to learn from losses than a win.
“It will remain as a huge lesson for the future,” said Shakib.
Source: http://www.thedailystar.net/newDesign/news-details.php?nid=199223
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tigers please show ur true colors.... we know it's just a bad time.... :|
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