Shan Masood, the Pakistan captain interacted with the media after their embarrassing loss against Bangladesh on Sunday. He said the declaration was obvious.
Pakistan has lost to Bangladesh by 10 wickets in their backyard and this has shaken Pakistan Cricket which was already at a totally low position. Bangladesh has won their first-ever Test match against Pakistan.
The newly appointed Pakistan Captain, Shan Masood who is just playing his second series as Pakistan Captain declared the innings which potentially cost them the match. The decision to go with an all-seam attack also hurt Pakistan. Answering this he said: “We had anticipated the pitch to offer more assistance to the seamers. Looking at the pitch, we expected it to do more.”
“If we played 3 fast bowlers, we would be pushing them to the limit and the spinner would be bowling 25-30 overs a day, which we wanted to avoid.
“We thought that with the weather, it may not even last the full 5 days. At the end of the day, we got it wrong,” he demonstrated.
Answering about the declaration Shan Masood said: “We wanted to go for a win in the match and thus felt we had enough runs on the board to declare. But the Bangladesh batters showed a lot of discipline and intent in their first innings. Mushfiq and Miraz batted well,” he added.
“We felt that with 448 runs we could get a crack at them in the fourth innings.” “We could have done with more runs but there were also things with the ball and in the field that we could’ve done better to either take a lead or keep them at par,” he said.
Sunday’s loss was Shan Masood’s fourth straight loss as the test captain of Pakistan. Shan Masood was appointed as the captain later last year for the series in Australia which Pakistan lost 3-0.
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