Shakib Al Hasan termed the aspect’s efficiency as their worst towards the Netherlands within the World Cup 2023.

Shakib on defeat towards the Netherlands

Bangladesh has performed six matches thus far the place they’ve just one victory within the ICC event. After their victory towards Afghanistan, they confronted back-to-back defeats within the event.

Based on the skipper, their defeat towards the Netherlands was the workforce’s worst efficiency ever. They misplaced the match with 87 runs distinction to finish their hopes of reaching the semi-finals.

Bangladesh have three victories in every World Cup event since 2007 and this streak will most likely be damaged as they set to face Pakistan, Sri Lanka, and Australia of their final three matches.

On this event, the skipper Shakib Al Hasan mentioned, “You possibly can say that (it’s Bangladesh’s worst World Cup efficiency) with none doubt. I don’t have a solution to “why” we performed this manner,” he mentioned.

“I don’t need to blame anybody. We’re a greater workforce than our efficiency. We had been disappointing on this event, one thing that the entire dressing room would agree,” he added.

“It’s a arduous query to reply (the place we’ve got gone fallacious). You could have requested the fallacious particular person. From my standpoint, we have to change numerous issues. However it’s not the time to speak about these items.

It’s disappointing that we haven’t performed within the semifinals in 24 years. The best way our folks deal with cricket, we should always have carried out higher.

“I don’t know what’s happening. As a batting unit, when you ask me to summarize our six matches with the bat. We had been very poor apart from Mahmudullah and Mushfiqur Rahim. All different batters weren’t on top of things. I believed we had been effectively wanting confidence in each departments.

We couldn’t meet up with our excessive expectations. I believed we bowled very well after shedding the toss. We had been sloppy within the area. We might have restricted them to 170-180 however we should always have chased 230 complete,” he additional added.

Regardless of Mahmudllah scoring a century towards South Africa, he was moved down within the batting lineup which shocked everybody.

“We’ve a workforce of limitations in batting and bowling. We’re not snug bowling or batting in numerous instances and positions. We’re not snug going through bowlers in sure instances, so we’ve got to regulate on a regular basis. If our batters did effectively on the high, Riyad and Mushfiq might have carried out their roles,” he mentioned.

“I agree with you that perhaps if Riyad bhai batted larger within the order, we might have carried out effectively. Apart from that, we’ve got all been disappointing.”

Shakib added that the departure of the skipper Tamim Iqbal from the squad additionally had an impression on their World Cup marketing campaign.

“It might be. I don’t know what’s in everybody’s coronary heart. I don’t disagree with you. It might have had an impact,” he concluded.

Bangladesh shall be taking part in their subsequent World Cup match towards Pakistan on October 31 at Eden Gardens.