Apart from maintaining a tally of the higher efficiency with the bat, Sri Lanka has resorted to enjoying thoughts video games forward of their essential encounter in opposition to Bangladesh within the Asia Cup.
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The Sri Lankan batsmen have been blown away by the Afghanistan pacers within the opening sport and can attempt to put their work collectively after a heavy defeat. Bangladesh, then again, shall be enjoying their first match of the match. The Shakib Al Hasan-led aspect shall be aiming to enhance on their current report within the shortest format by successful simply two video games out of 13 since final yr’s World Cup. Sri Lanka captain Dasun Shanaka is hopeful that Bangladesh’s bowling assault is not going to pose as a lot menace to his crew because the Afghans. “Afghanistan have a world class bowling attack. We know that Fiz (Mustafizur Rahman) is a good bowler. Shakib is a world class bowler. But apart from him, there is no world class bowler in the team. So if we compare with Afghanistan, Bangladesh is an easy opponent,” Shanaka mentioned after the large defeat.
Afghanistan’s quick bowlers Fazlhaq Farooqui and Naveen-ul-Haq broke the spine of Sri Lanka’s batting. Shanka hopes that his batsmen shall be prepared for Bangladesh’s problem.
“We should ask our batsmen in the event that they have been prepared. We know that Farooqui swings the ball each methods. Naveen-ul-Haq additionally swings it more often than not. Not so in our state of affairs; These bowlers are a bit skidier. The query we now have to ask is whether or not we have been prepared for them,” Shanaka mentioned. Before the sport, Bangladesh all-rounder Mehdi Hassan mentioned that his crew want to reply to Shanaka’s declare on the sphere. I do not need to remark that this crew is sweet and this crew is unhealthy. I feel there’s good and unhealthy within the area. A great crew can lose if it performs poorly on that specific day and equally a foul crew can win if it performs an excellent sport of cricket.
“We will meet on the field and at the end of the day the good team will win the match and I think we have to prove it on the field because if we play well then of course everyone will know who is a good team and who is a bad team. The team is there so I think it is important to play well on the field rather than predicting before that,” Hassan mentioned.
With inputs from TheIndianEXPRESS
