{"id":31953,"date":"2017-03-28T08:24:47","date_gmt":"2017-03-28T08:24:47","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/en.bornomalanews.com\/?p=31953"},"modified":"2017-03-28T08:24:47","modified_gmt":"2017-03-28T08:24:47","slug":"mash-wants-batsmen-to-emulate-big-teams","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/en.bornomalanews.com\/?p=31953","title":{"rendered":"Mash wants batsmen to emulate \u2018big teams\u2019"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Bangladesh captain Mashrafe Mortaza stretches during a practice session at the Rangiri Dambulla International Cricket Stadium in Dambulla yesterday. AFP PHOTO<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

Sports desk: Bangladesh captain Mashrafe Mortaza wants his batsmen to continue converting starts into big scores, like how \u201cbig teams do\u201d, in order to push totals higher. Tamim Iqbal\u2019s 127 played a major role in Bangladesh reaching their second highest ODI total, 324 for 5, in the first match in Dambulla, reports Cricinfo from Dambulla.<\/p>\n

Tamim supported Sabbir Rahman and Shakib Al Hasan who made rapid half-centuries. They have lost only once out of ten occasions in which they have scored more than 300 runs.<\/p>\n

Bangladesh\u2019s best batsmen, though, have a poor conversion rate. Tamim has scored eight ODI hundreds from 42 50-plus scores in his career. Shakib has six hundreds and 33 fifties, while Mushfiqur Rahim has four hundreds and 23 fifties.<\/p>\n

Among the younger players, Soumya Sarkar has scored one century and four fifties in his 21 ODIs. In ten of those innings, he has scored between 20 and 40. Sabbir meanwhile hasn't struck a century in 33 ODIs, scoring just four fifties.<\/p>\n

\u201c[Our strength playing abroad] has to be our batting,\u201d Mashrafe said. \u201cWe wanted our batsmen to cross the 50 to 70-run mark and get a big score. It was a learning curve for us.<\/p>\n

Sabbir missed out in the last game but Tamim got to a big hundred. It makes winning easier when someone does that.<\/p>\n

\u201cIt is a good lesson for us. The batsmen should learn how to convert 50-60 into a hundred, which is what big teams do. We have to learn this continuously, and ensure that we keep doing this. Finishing is also an important matter, which has helped us get to that score.\u201d<\/p>\n

Mashrafe said they are applying some of the lessons they learned from New Zealand, where they pushed the home side in the second and third ODIs with good starts but couldn't quite win games.<\/p>\n

\u201cAfter the England ODI series which was our last ODI series at home, I said that the different challenge will start in New Zealand,\u201d Mashrafe said. \u201cBut we couldn't win there, despite creating opportunities.<\/p>\n

\u201cWe won the second Test and the first ODI here. We will improve slowly. Other teams also took time to win abroad. New Zealand was difficult for us but that experience will work for us here,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n

Bangladesh are mulling over a different combination in the second ODI, considering how much grass was left on the Dambulla pitch on the eve of the game. Sri Lanka have also added two pace bowlers to their squad.<\/p>\n

\u201cI think the wicket will be good for batting,\u201d Mashrafe said. \u201cIn the sub-continent you have to keep a lot of grass to make a wicket that suits the fast bowlers. We will have a look at the grass tomorrow, and whether they have watered it or not. We also have to find out if the wicket ends up as soft or hard.<\/p>\n

\u201cWe have always broken our winning combination against India and South Africa in 2015.<\/p>\n

The wicket tomorrow may be different, so we have to keep that in mind,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Sports desk: Bangladesh captain Mashrafe Mortaza wants his batsmen to continue converting starts into big scores, like how \u201cbig teams do\u201d, in order to push totals higher. Tamim Iqbal\u2019s 127 played a major role in Bangladesh reaching their second highest ODI total, 324 for 5, in the first match in Dambulla, reports Cricinfo from Dambulla. […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":7,"featured_media":31954,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[8],"tags":[],"yoast_head":"\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\t\n\t\n\n\n\t\n