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After five innings, the team runs two hundred! That's all Bangladesh got on the fourth day of the Chittagong Test against Sri Lanka on Tuesday. But with this amount of income, the calculation is no longer possible. Defeat is looming in this test too due to batting failure. Bangladesh will lose the match if Sri Lanka can take three wickets on the last day on Wednesday. Chasing a target of 511 runs, Bangladesh ended the day at 268 for 7. Batting failure in Chittagong after Sylhet. The batsmen have no runs anywhere from the top to the middle order. There is not the slightest urge to fight. No mentality to bat in Test mood. Where is the deficit in Bangladesh?
Muminul Haq didn't find any excuse to answer. Instead, he blames himself for not being able to do well in batting. There is no excuse for that. We cannot make any excuses. Actually we are batting very badly as a team. We just couldn't do anything where we needed to click throughout the series.'
Batting on the wicket was difficult. But if there were 5 wickets instead of 7 wickets, then Bangladesh could at least hope to save the match or something else. Muminul's words gave such a glimpse, 'Now it is very difficult to bat. All day I thought if we could have made that run for four wickets maybe things would have been a little different tomorrow. Or, if two wickets (less lost) is now 238 runs, 230, then they would have been under pressure. Because if tomorrow is the whole day, that run can be reached by playing three sessions comfortably. The wickets fell early.'
Joy, Zakir, Shant, Shakib, Liton all settled and got out. For a long time they spent at the crease and sacrificed wickets. He lost his wicket with a loose shot. Even after settling down, Muminul could not find the reason for such haphazard batting, 'everyone is set and out. Even those who are out, I am responsible for everyone. It is difficult to bat in this position now. Hard means very hard. Although I am optimistic, it is difficult to say.
Muminul has scored the maximum 50 runs for the team so far. Arranged his innings in ODI genre. Came down the wicket and played the shot. Hit a boundary around the wicket. He got a boundary by sweeping. Aggressive batting is his destiny. After touching the 16th fifty of his Test career, he was caught at deep square leg while sweeping.
Claiming that the innings which featured 8 fours and 1 six was not aggressive, Muminul said, 'I don't think I was aggressive. I wanted to play normal not aggressive cricket. If we only play block-block then a space is created for the bowler. If you look at Pace, I have not played any of the Rush Shots. I took calculative risks in the areas where my zone was in the spin.'
