The Bangladesh batsmen need to learn to mix aggression with caution in order to utilise the batting powerplay as it remained under-par in the ongoing ODI series against New Zealand, said batting coach Corey Richards on Friday. Some of the Bangladeshi cricketers failed to capitalise the powerplay as they seemed to lose their way during that point when other teams generally look to accelerate their innings.
Though the Tigers won the first two ODIs, they lost their position of advantage in the last mandatory
powerplay between 36 and 40 overs in both the matches.
In the first one-dayer, Bangladesh lost the key wickets of captain Mushfiqur Rahim and Nasir Hossain whilst adding just 27 runs while in the second ODI, they gave away three wickets while scoring 35 runs.
Mushfiq, Naeem Islam and Nasir were the batsmen who were dismissed taking Bangladesh from 169-4 to 173-6.
‘We have been under-par in the two powerplays,’ Corey told New Age on Friday.
‘We haven’t utilised the powerplay the way we would have liked as we obviously got plans and targets of powerplays.
‘It is a difficult stage as you have to mix aggression with sensibility and good execution.
‘We started off well yesterday [Thursday] in the first over and a half and that is something that we need to work on in the next game and future ODI games that we play,’ said Corey.
Corey went on to say that losing too many wickets was an area of concern and stressed that they needed to hone their skills on this aspect.
‘We have been losing a few wickets in the powerplays,’ said Corey.
‘Generally if you use aggression there is a chance of losing one but in our case that was not the case. It’s important that we don’t waste that powerplay and also not lose too many wickets.
‘The plan leading upto the powerplays is ideally there should be two set batsmen at the crease.
‘If you lose wickets in the powerplays it obviously hurts the momentum.’
-With New Age input
