Desk Report,
The help that Miraj asked Nazmul for
Apart from the scorching, sweat-soaked heat of Colombo, there was no other heat to be found at the Sinhalese Sports Club ground. Of course, there was no need to get any. The discussion about removing Nazmul Hossain from the Test leadership is now basically outside the team. It has no impact on the team’s atmosphere. The entire team is now thinking about the ODI series starting on July 2 under the leadership of new ODI captain Mehedi Hasan Miraj.
The help that Miraj asked Nazmul for
The good thing about the second Test ending a day early is that it gets an extra day to prepare for the ODI. Of course, almost all the cricketers who played in the Colombo Test, including Nazmul, Miraj, Liton Das, were resting on that extra day. The exceptions were two pacers Ibadat Hossain and Nahid Rana. Along with the cricketers who joined the ODI team, these two members of the Test team were also in practice at the Sinhalese Sports Club ground yesterday.
Starting at 2 pm and ending at 4 pm, everything was done in the two-hour practice, from warm-up to batting-bowling in the nets, fielding practice—everything was done. Test team cricketers’ flight today, Ibadat, who is not in the ODI team, also bowled for a long time in the nets. Although Mustafizur Rahman and Tanjim Hasan were the focus of pace bowling coach Sean Tait’s attention, the injured pacer Taskin Ahmed. Tait gave him some advice before almost every ball in the nets. Among the pacers, Hasan Mahmud and Nahid Rana were not in Tait’s nets. Hasan Mahmud, who did not play in the second Test due to shoulder stiffness, and another pacer Nahid Rana, who played in both Tests, did not bowl at all in practice yesterday. Physio Bayezidul Islam and conditioning coach Nathan Kelly, and sometimes team doctor Manjur Hossain Chowdhury were with Hasan Mahmud during the gentle hand rotation phase to understand the condition of his shoulder. Along with some other minor tests, they found that his shoulder condition was better than before. Hasan Mahmud will try to bowl full-force in the nets today. Nahid Rana batted in the nets even though he did not bowl.
