Unknown condition. Unknown wicket. However, the batsmen of the West Indies ‘A’ team spent two days of the four-day match at 22 yards. Build a mountain of run. However, Saif Hasan, Mahmudul Hasan Joy, Sadman Islam, Afif Hossain fought to survive in their familiar conditions. Can’t avoid follow-on even in four-day matches. Tendency to play excessive shots, take extra risks, give away wickets in erratic batting. But they are supposed to test patience by going to the wicket in white clothes. Shots should be selected according to the merit of the ball. Hours upon hours are supposed to be spent on the wicket. Afifra could not do any of those things in the first four-day match in Sylhet. Coach Jamie Siddons is a little upset about that. Siddons, hoping for better things from the disciples in the second four-day match after forgetting the past, ‘I think the boys have always played white-ball cricket. So playing a lot of shots. The bowlers were not hitting the ball in the right place. The pace bowlers have to force the batsmen to play forward defence. Which is important in red ball cricket. The batsmen were playing a lot of shots at the start of their innings. The ball was not leaving and the defense was not. I hope one will adapt in the second match. Coming from white ball cricket, playing red ball is difficult. Sometimes there was only two days of preparation time. Siddons also expressed his desire, “If we can defend well and show patience, then it is good.” I want a batsman who can bat for six hours. I don’t want to see an explosive thirty or a devastating twenty innings. We want the batsmen to bowl at the end of the day and be ready for the next day. This is four-day cricket. Give the coach or the captain a chance to announce the innings without ending the innings badly. In the first innings, Saif Hasan scored 91 runs off 71 balls with 14 fours and 2 sixes. Sadman, playing a loose shot outside the offstump, is out. Even after surviving the ball hitting the stumps, Afif could not extend his innings. He scored 45 runs off 41 balls with 7 fours and 2 sixes and gifted the guests a wicket with a bad shot. Those who had extra attention, they disappointed everyone. The left-handed batsman disappointed in two innings despite talking about Afif who is out of the national team. In the second innings, while playing a reverse sweep, he was dismissed for 9 runs. Siddons believes that Afif will learn from mistakes, ‘Afif must understand his mistakes. We talked about it. That shot was wrong on that ball. As the ball is pitching on the wicket, the line is also there. So the shot was wrong. Hope he learns from his mistake and doesn’t do it again.”
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