Middle-order batsman Marshall Ayub denied suffering from any extra pressure to perform in the highest level after making his bow in the first Test match against New Zealand in Chittagong.
Marshall scored heavily in the previous editions of the Bangladesh Cricket League and National Cricket League to stake a claim for the number three spot since it was vacated by Mohammad Ashraful, who was banned indefinitely for match-fixing.
‘There is no pressure on me to score just because I scored heavily in domestic cricket. I just tried to play my own game,’ Marshall told reporters on Friday.
‘I tried to make a good start, tried to play well, but it didn’t go according to plan. I will try to do better in the coming match,’ said Marshall.
In the two innings of the first Test match, Marshall scored 25 and 31.
The right-hander said that he was coming to terms with international cricket where he has observed that the amounts of bad balls are far too few compared to the domestic games.
‘In Test cricket, the numbers of good balls are more in number. In domestic cricket, however, poorer deliveries are more in number, so that has been the main difference. Test cricket has so far been alright,’ said Marshall.
‘A lot of runs have been scored in this ground [Mirpur Sher-e-Bangla] in the Dhaka Premier League which indicates that it will be a high-scoring Test match and I am looking forward to it,’ he added.
-With New Age input
