Yet again Bangladesh wasted a very good start and at stumps,
it was Sri Lanka who left the field in a joyous mood.
If Dinesh Chamidal was lucky yesterday, then the same can be
said about Tamim Iqbal as in the 3rd and 19th over of
Bangladesh innings, Sri Lanka decide not to review about their appeal for lbw
against lbw. The replay showed, had the Lankans taken the review, Tamim would
have been in big trouble and left the crease quickly. But, like Chandimal,
Tamim did not make his fortune count.
While the Bangladesh opening pair was progressing for a
solid foundation, if one notices, he will see, Tamim’s footwork was made to
look shaky by the brilliant sense of length and use of the crease of the Sri
Lankan bowlers. They were bowling from wide of the crease and brought the ball
back into the batsmen by pitching it on middle and off stump to create doubts
in the mind of Tamim.
Whenever the ball nipped back in after pitching on the fuller
length, in and around middle and off, Tamim was caught at the crease most of
the times and the same happened when the ball pitched back of a length.
After surviving two lucky escapes, in the third time, he was
undone as he did not adjust his backward movement to get behind the line of the
ball and commit to play the shot late.
Soumya Sarkar relied more on defence rather than using the
feet –a ploy which helped him to survive for a while, but not so long as his
gap between bat and bad was exposed when he was sucked into the drive by a
wrong-un from Sandakan whose flight was such, one needs to get back and then,
lean onto the drive relying on correct footwork.
Footwork is very important.
Sandakan produced another wrong-run to Imrul Kayes and I am
not sure why he decided to execute the short-arm jab. I expected Imrul to play
a composed knock and arrest the collapse. Meanwhile, I didn’t understand why
Taijul Islam was sent as a nightwatchman. The result was disastrous.
The wicket of Sabbir was a well set trap. Sabbir saw that a
leg gully was placed and whenever a fielding captain does such, a batsman
should be ready for a short-ball from wide off the crease. I am sorry, sabbir
fell to the trap to complete a frustrating day for the Tigers.
By the way, was it very important to use the reverse sweep
time and again?
Yesterday, I posted, as long as Chandimal will be there, Sri
Lanka will always breathe easily. I think I am not wrong as you can see, how he
managed his innings by relying on strike rotation and protection of the tail to
put Lanka in a very good position.
Even I said, on this track 250-300+ score will be very good and
Sri lanka did just that.
Batting will be tough here as the ady progresses and
Bangladesh should not have wasted such a good start.
I have nothing to say about Mushfiq’s poor captaincy.
Thank You
Faisal Caesar
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