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Vice captain Taskin Ahmed stated that Bangladesh’s unsuccessful T20 World Cup 2024 campaign was primarily due to poor batting form. He claimed that during Bangladesh’s 47-day trip to the Americas, nearly everything went as planned, with the exception of the batting.
Bangladesh’s hitting unit had the lowest collective average among the Super Eight teams in a challenging campaign for batters.
Litton Das scored the lone fifty for Bangladesh from those three places, meaning that none of the top three scorers gave them a start in any of their innings. Their finest batting effort came from Towhid Hridoy, who scored 153 runs at 128.57, but he was not given enough support in the middle order by Shakib (111 runs at 106.73 SR) and Mahmudullah (95 runs at 94.05 SR).
“The seniors’ off-form had an effect on the team but not off the field,” Taskin told reporters at the Dhaka airport, after the Bangladesh team’s arrival on Friday morning. “They are great team men. We stayed as a team for 47 days. Everything was fine off the field. It is quite normal that a team will have problems when important players are not in form. I am hopeful that we can recover from this, and play better soon.”
Taskin said that the batters only found better pitches when they reached the West Indies but even then he said that he hadn’t seen such a long batting slump by Bangladesh in his international career.
“When you talk about the batting, if you look at the statistics, I think every [teams’] batting department suffered in the USA this time. Bowlers got a lot of help. We got better [batting] wickets in the West Indies.
“I haven’t seen such a long bad patch for the batters in my ten years playing for Bangladesh. I hope it goes away quickly.
Taskin was a part of Bangladesh’s impressive bowling performance. Even though he was recovering from an injury, legspinner Rishad Hossain and Tanzim Hasan topped the bowling charts; Rishad is still tied for third place among the leading wicket-takers in the event heading into the final. According to Taskin, it demonstrated that skilled cricket players are emerging from Bangladesh.
“The bowling unit has been doing well for the last few years. We have been consistent. It will keep getting better.
“Tanzim and Rishad are among the tournament’s top wicket-takers. It is a positive. We have some future stars emerging from Bangladesh. It says that we have ability. What has taken place has hurt us and the fans, especially our inability to win certain matches,” he said.