There was no problem with more dot balls: Coach Salahuddin

There was no problem with more dot balls: Coach Salahuddin

‘Snoozefest’ or ‘sleepy cricket’ is the term used by cricket-loving netizens to comment on slow batting on social media. However, that snoozefest is the same for others, and it takes on a different dimension when it comes to Bangladesh matches. Something like this was seen in the India match as well as the New Zealand match.

Bangladesh gave a dot in 159 balls in the match against India. The number of Bangladeshi dot increased further in the New Zealand match. That day, the Bangladeshi batters could not score any runs in 181 balls. In total, the batsmen gave 340 dot balls in the two matches.

Keeping the number of dots low is very important in modern ODI cricket, especially when you have less ability to hit the ball outside the boundary with your body. Bangladesh is quite behind in both places.

The tendency to give dot has been suffering the team for a long time. That trend has not changed in this year’s Champions Trophy. Coach Mohammad Salahuddin was also asked about this before the Pakistan match.

In response, he resorted to a bit of diplomacy. He said that there was no problem even if they played more dots. He limited Bangladesh's long-standing problem to the New Zealand match.

He said, "If they had played more dots, I would not have had any problem. Because our run rate was right. There were 97 runs in 20 overs. We were in a very good position. When the wickets fell from there, we actually did not get a chance to increase the run rate."

He said that the task became difficult in the New Zealand match due to the rapid loss of wickets. He said, "You can play dots, how was our run rate? If we had 60 runs in 20 overs, then we would have said that we were in a very bad situation. In the situation where we were 97 in 20 overs, if 10 overs could have been played, then it would have been 150 in 30 overs, it would not have been difficult to score big runs from there. What I said is that when wickets fall in the middle overs, it becomes difficult to increase the run rate from there.

In this case, he gave credit to the New Zealand team. If Salahuddin wants to see the team try to give dot-com in the future. He said, "I will try to have fewer dot balls in the middle overs. Then the task will be easy for any team. It's not that the team doesn't have the ability. Here, New Zealand has to be given a lot of credit, they have done that on how to bowl on such wickets, how to set up the field. That's why our number of dot balls has increased."