Siram exhorts Bangladehsi batters take insipiration from kohli

After the Indian batting legend scored yet another international hundred during their match on October 19 at the Maharashta Cricket Association stadium in Pune, 
Bangladesh’s technical consultant Sridharan Sriram advised his countrymen to take notes from Virat Kholi on how to construct an innings.

To help the home team defeat the tourists by a comfortable seven wickets, kohli played a masterful innings in which, for the most part, he played havoc with the bowling attack.

Before, Bangladesh had a strong start thanks to Liton Kumar Das (66) and Tanzid Tamim (51), who put up 93 runs in 14.4 overs to set the stage for a large total, but it was in vain because the other batsmen were unable to take advantage of it.

After Tanzid was dismissed. Bangladesh lost their composure and quickly lost the wickets of Shanto (eight), Mehidy Hasam Miraz (three), and Liton, falling to 137-4 in the 28th over.

After the game, Liton Kumar Das; interin ODI captain Najmul Hossain accused him of throwing away his wicket because he believed it affected the game’s outcome.

Siram urge his team to take a cue from Kohli on how to structure and pace an ODI inning.

When asked to assess Kohli’s inning, Siram told Bangladesh’s broadcast  right holder GTV after the game, “It was good wasn’t it? Really like he didn’t hit a single ball in the air until he reached around 70/80 runs and it is a great lesson that our boys can learn from like have intent, run hard between the wickets and hits (between) gaps and I think he was too professional.

Despite his disppointment with the batting unit’s performance, Sriram added that he still has faith in their ability to perform well in the team’s remaining five games.

The technical advisor described the batting unit’s performance as “definitely disappointing”

He continued, “I think the World Cup is a long tournament and every loss hurts you but it is about finding ways to keep goin, findind ways to get up, and focusing on the next game.

“I don’t think anything is wrong (in the batting) it is just about people who need to get a score and boys are aware about that,” he stated.

“Both Tamim and Liton will be disappointed because they had control of the game at the point of time 15 overs 93 and the game was very much in Bangladesh’s control and then lose those wickets which is quite disappointing,” he stated.