Miraj explained about not playing Soumya and Saif-Afif

Soumya Sarkar played a sparkling innings of 91 runs in his last international ODI. In the series decider match against West Indies, his innings of ninety runs helped Bangladesh win against the Caribbean. Soumya will be in the team in the next series, that much can be said for sure. But nothing happened.

Bangladesh has kept Soumya on the bench for three ODIs against Pakistan. Saif Hasan and Nazmul Hossain Shanto were with Tanjid Hasan Tamim in the top order. Apart from Tanjid, the other two could not match themselves well in the series. Why Soumya was not cast was not explained from the beginning. But it was thought that Soumya's bat did not play in the BCL before the series against Pakistan. Not only that, his bat was ineffective in the match of the national team BCB All-Stars XI.

His runs in BCL were 0, 9 and 9 respectively. Apart from this, Soumya could not score more than 11 runs in 22 balls in the match between them. Performance doesn't speak for him. But the question arises as to how reasonable it is to compare the performance of domestic cricket with the performance of international cricket. Why did Soumya not get a chance in one of the three ODIs?

After winning the series by a margin of 2-1, Miraj came to the press conference and explained, “We want to give Soumya enough opportunities. A batsman cannot be judged by one or two matches. He can show his best game if given time. So we will play him again if the opportunity comes.''

Tanjid scored 175 runs in the series. His partner Saif was behind. His batting approach was shaky against good pace bowling. Runs 4, 12 and 36 in three matches. He scored 36 runs off 55 balls in the last match. Where he was struggling to get runs. Munciana could not show boundaries, rotate straight. Saif played an innings of 80 runs off 72 balls in the last ODI before this series. Equally 6 fours and sixes were in his bat. The team management had no reason not to play Saif.

Mirage said about him, “We want every player to get enough opportunities. For example, Soumya Sarkar played well in the previous series, though was out of form for a few days. Tamim and Saif Hasan were in good touch. So a sudden change would have made things difficult for both players. Our plan was to give the players consistent opportunities, so that they get time to prove themselves.”

Afif Hossain was returned to the team in this series. Chief selector Gazi Ashraf Hossain Lipu said of him, “There is a fine touch.”

He did not get a chance to bat in the first match. His innings stopped at 14 runs in the second match. In a match where the team was almost certain to lose, he could have shown his ability by playing a big innings. But failed. In the last match yesterday, he went down to number seven. Was at the crease for 17 minutes. Even though he got a chance to play 8 balls, he could not score more than 5 runs. His role in the team is late middle order. At that time, the task of making quick runs, hitting boundaries is supposed to be done. But Afif got confused by several balls in the last match.

“I like Afif's approach,” Miraz said about him. Seen in the previous match, around 9 runs were required. He could have played safe cricket for himself if he wanted, but he took a risk for the team. Sometimes you have to take risks to win matches. Although he hasn't scored big runs, I believe he will do well if given the opportunity in the future.''