Desk Report,
Bangladesh’s T20 team is not bad, what do you think?
Pay close attention to the title. You will understand that your opinion matters. The question is for you—how does the Bangladesh team play T20s?
If you are an enthusiastic, positive supporter, it is not difficult to understand what your answer might be.
Bangladesh’s T20 team is not bad, what do you think?
You can say that this team won the series against the West Indies and Sri Lanka. If you are a negative supporter, it is also easy to understand your answer. Bangladesh lost the series against the United Arab Emirates, that is what you will say!
If you want to bring up the incident of the series loss against the United States, there is a counter-argument. There is a huge difference between the team that played in that series before the 2024 T20 World Cup and this Bangladesh team. The team in that series had experienced but slightly older cricketers like Shakib Al Hasan and Mahmudullah Riyad, compared to that, the current team is new and full of youth.
There will be ups and downs in cricket. A team can lose to the United Arab Emirates, and it can also lose to Australia or the West Indies. That is the beauty of cricket. Even then, there is a chance to judge and analyze any team impartially. If you look at it that way, what is the Bangladesh T20 team really like?
We have to start with the openers. Bangladesh’s opening combination in T20 is fine for now. Parvez Hossain opens with Tanjid Hasan. Be careful! Don’t go looking at the statistics, please! You will be upset. Parvez’s average is 20.26, Tanjid’s is 27.25. Even then, it is safe to say that Bangladesh has no chance of thinking outside of them in T20 opening!
The reason? The innate ability to bat in a T20 mood. In cricket at this time, the openers have to start taking risks. Openers have to have the guts, courage and skill to send the ball floated in the air by the spinners to the gallery. They have to bat with the new ball against the pacers. And Parvez and Tanjid have this guts, courage and skill. Tanjid’s unbeaten innings of 73 runs yesterday with 6 sixes is an example of this. Parvez also proved this by scoring 66 runs off 34 balls against Pakistan in Lahore and 38 runs off 22 balls in the first match of the series against Sri Lanka.
