4 reasons why Bangladesh lost to India

 4 reasons why Bangladesh lost to India

This year's Champions Trophy is a little different for Bangladesh. The team is leaving Dhaka for an ICC tournament, and before that, the captain announces - the team is leaving the country after winning the trophy, this has never happened before, this is the first time.

However, the cricket on the field is no different. The old scenes were re-staged at the Dubai International Stadium. All the old patterns were seen again. However, the announcement made by Shanto, and then Thursday's match was supposed to be a match to send a message. A match to prove that the captain's words before leaving the country are not empty words.

Those did not happen due to 4 mistakes. What are those mistakes? Let's take a look—

1. Mistakes at the beginning, Bangladesh could not read the conditions

Do you know how many spinners are in the Indian squad? 5. The former players have single-handedly taken a dig at the Indian team management, including coach Gautam Gambhir. However, the reason why India took that decision was justified in the last match. The Dubai wicket is a bit slow. To keep up with him, yesterday, Bangladesh also fielded 3 spinners – Axar Patel, Kuldeep Yadav and Ravindra Jadeja.

Bangladesh kept 2 spinners in their team. The result was visible before our eyes. While the two spinners Rishad Hossain and Mehedi Hasan Miraj gave away 75 runs in 20 overs, apart from Taskin Ahmed, the two pacers Tanjim Hasan Shakib and Mustafizur Rahman gave away 17.3 overs and gave away runs at a rate of around 7 per over!

2. ‘Post BPL Blue’ or ‘Batting Blue’?

When Bangladesh entered ODI cricket immediately after the BPL, the team’s batting line-up inevitably suffered. It will take time to adapt to the stable style of ODIs from the mercurial cricket of T20s. After the last three BPLs, something like this was seen in ODIs, the batters had to face difficulties against Afghanistan in 2022, England in 2023, and Sri Lanka in 2024. This time too was no exception.

Yesterday, 5 wickets were lost before the 10th over. The last time Bangladesh lost 5 wickets in the Powerplay, it was in the Afghanistan series in 2022. Tamim Iqbal's team entered this series after finishing the BPL, and the team lost 5 wickets for 28 runs in its first match.

However, how can you say that something that does not happen even after the BPL is over! Bangladesh also suffered such a collapse in the 2023 ODI World Cup. 49-4 against England, 56-4 against New Zealand, 81-6 against South Africa, 70-6 against the Netherlands and 23-3 against Pakistan—they were knocked out early in every match.

Captain Shanto had said before the match that the team's batters would have no problem adapting after coming from the BPL. However, the team could not get out of that old circle yesterday either.

3. Bowling also disappointed

The wicket was behaving slowly as time went on. The ball was not coming to the bat easily. What? Doesn't the situation seem familiar? Such conditions are familiar to Bangladesh! I don't know how many times Bangladesh has played on such a wicket at the Sher-e-Bangla National Stadium in Mirpur. But where did the bowlers take advantage of those familiar conditions?

The bowlers, especially Mustafiz and Tanjim Shakib, did not use the speed manipulation, and as an added bonus, they gave the Indian batters many half-volleys on the leg stump. The economy of the two of them really touched the sky, giving away runs close to 7, when the team was fighting with a capital of 228 runs.

When two bowlers give runs like this, the work of others becomes difficult. Bangladesh could not love the tougher, and paid the price by losing the match.

4. Missed catch (runout too), means missed match

When the capital is small, the responsibility on the fielders and bowlers increases. Where were the fielders able to fulfill that responsibility? New Zealand showed well in the opening match of this year's Champions Trophy how to put pressure on the opponent through fielding. They left Babar Azam gasping with their fielding inside 30 yards. Bangladesh could not show such fielding on Thursday night. As a result, when the spinners were holding India back, the pressure could not be increased several times more.

That did not happen, but routine work, such as taking hand catches, making good use of run-out opportunities, should be done! Where did Bangladesh manage that too? India wasted two opportunities in the entire innings, and the calm ones had to pay the price for both.

Shant was directly involved in the first one, he paid the most. In the 24th over of the innings, a misunderstanding between Shreyas Iyer and Shubman Gill led to an opportunity. However, Shant failed to break Gill's stumps. Gill was batting on 47 runs at the time. Gill eventually returned after finishing the match, leaving the field with 101 runs glowing next to his name. Wouldn't the chances of winning have increased if he had been brought back before fifty?

Gill's partner at the end of the match was Lokesh Rahul. That Rahul also gave Bangladesh a chance! Not once, but twice! Rahul, on a personal 9, lifted the ball into the air off Taskin's over. However, Zakir Ali at deep mid-wicket could not keep the ball in his hands. Then, when India's score was 201, Rahul gave another chance. This time too, the run-out opportunity was not utilized due to Shant's mistake.

When so many mistakes are made in a match, how is it possible to win that match again? Bangladesh have two more matches left in the Champions Trophy. Will Shanta be able to rectify these mistakes in those two matches?