Chattogram is a batting paradise in Bangladesh; it has never been easy for fast bowlers here – Taskin Ahmed

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Taskin said that he is not sure whether he is available for the opening Test as he is still recovering from a back injury that forced him to be rested from the opening two ODIs

Bangladesh right-arm pacer Taskin Ahmed expressed on Monday (December 12) that the team’s bowling should practice persistence against India on the flat wicket at Chattogram as trying to force the issue would lead them nowhere.

Bangladesh right-arm pacer Taskin Ahmed expressed on Monday (December 12) that the team’s bowling should practice persistence against India on the flat wicket at Chattogram as trying to force the issue would lead them nowhere.

“Chattogram is a batting paradise in Bangladesh. It has never been easy for fast bowlers here,”

Taskin said.

“We are improving but we are yet to get favorable wickets. It is usually a batting track.

“If we try to force the issue, it won’t work in our favor. We will leak runs. They are good players, so we have to get the new ball to swing a bit. Maybe get a reverse swing with the old ball. We have to try to break their patience. We have to bowl patiently and wait for their mistakes. It won’t be right to say that we want to blow them away.

“Test cricket is always challenging. We have won Tests by taking it to the fifth day, so here too, we have to take the game into the fifth day,”

Taskin explained that Bangladesh will not make any excuses about the pitch and are instead focused on becoming a skillful unit that can flourish anywhere.

“Fast bowlers ideally want to bowl on green tops. Conditions are not in our hands. We have got slow and flat tracks in South Africa and New Zealand,”

said Taskin.

“We have to make ourselves so skillful that we can bowl well on all types of wickets. Great bowlers are also getting five-fors on flat tracks. We have to focus on our self-improvement rather than [look at] conditions. As a pace bowling group, we are hungry for improvement. We are all in it together. My work ethic has improved. This is all we have in our hands. The management is with us, so if our desire remains, we can do better,”

he said.

Taskin said that he is not sure whether he is available for the opening Test as he is still recovering from a back injury that forced him to be rested from the opening two ODIs before he returned for the last game of that series.

“The team management is concerned about my workload build-up. I have just returned from an injury, so I am working on increasing workload build-up, fitness, and bowling load,”

Taskin said.

“If I can fulfill the load before this game, they may think of playing me. If not, then I might not play this Test. I might be playing the second Test in that case. I have spoken to them about it. I am following my workload plan,”

he said.

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