Wary Windies face cautious B’desh
25 March 2014 5:34 AM IST
While West Indies’ campaign begun on a wrong note losing to India, Bangladesh are also not in a great position having qualified on the basis of better net run-rate having lost to Hong Kong in the qualifying round.
Mushfiqur Rahim and his boys have job in hands as the cricket-crazy nation would want their ‘tigers’ to roar against Chris Gayle and company. Inconsistency has been Bangladesh’s primary problem in all these years. They are brilliant in one game and pretty ordinary in some others. Skipper Rahim is however confident that his boys will come up trumps against a formidable Caribbean batting line-up. ‘We have beaten them twice in T20 Internationals and there is no reason it won’t happen again. Yes, we were all shocked after losing to Hong Kong. But this is a new phase and we have nothing to lose from here on. The other teams will be wary about us and we have no pressure on us,’ Rahim said at the pre-match event.
West Indies captain Darren Sammy agreed his batsmen didn’t respond well to Indian spinners and would try to do well against Bangladesh. ‘We know how difficult a side Bangladesh can be playing at home. We have to produce our ‘A’ game in order to beat them. They will certainly play a lot of spinners but we need to bat better,’ Sammy said.
Mushfiqur Rahim and his boys have job in hands as the cricket-crazy nation would want their ‘tigers’ to roar against Chris Gayle and company. Inconsistency has been Bangladesh’s primary problem in all these years. They are brilliant in one game and pretty ordinary in some others. Skipper Rahim is however confident that his boys will come up trumps against a formidable Caribbean batting line-up. ‘We have beaten them twice in T20 Internationals and there is no reason it won’t happen again. Yes, we were all shocked after losing to Hong Kong. But this is a new phase and we have nothing to lose from here on. The other teams will be wary about us and we have no pressure on us,’ Rahim said at the pre-match event.
West Indies captain Darren Sammy agreed his batsmen didn’t respond well to Indian spinners and would try to do well against Bangladesh. ‘We know how difficult a side Bangladesh can be playing at home. We have to produce our ‘A’ game in order to beat them. They will certainly play a lot of spinners but we need to bat better,’ Sammy said.
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