Renowned Bangladeshi all-rounder Shakib Al Hasan said on Thursday that playing in India is the hardest Test assignment and that the hosts’ superior quality means that grounds don’t really matter.
Since their first Test match in Dhaka in 2000, Bangladesh is still looking for their first victory over India.
In the 14 matches between the two teams, India has prevailed in 12 of them, with the remaining two ending in draws.
“If you look at other countries, they will occasionally drop a game or two. However, it is rare to witness India lose in Test matches. So yeah, you are correct, Shakib responded to reporters when they inquired him if going on a tour to India was the most difficult task.
“We were very close to winning a game against them in a Test match in Bangladesh, but we prevailed against them in the ODI series.” We haven’t had the desired level of success in Test cricket. We’ll get another chance tomorrow.
“In Chennai, I felt like we performed pretty well in certain areas. Nevertheless, it wasn’t ideal for us to complete the match in three and a half days. We believed that as a team we were superior than it. Thus, we must demonstrate that in the game tomorrow,” he continued.
Shakib made a parallel between Bangladesh and India, noting that the former performed remarkably well to win the Test series 2-0 in Pakistan before traveling to India.
“The Pakistani team is not that old. In terms of experience, I would argue that if you compare our team’s record and the games we have played with theirs, you will see that we have more than them. And that, in my opinion, is a major factor in Test cricket.
“As far as I’m concerned, India is now leading the World Championship. At home, they are most likely unbeatable. They have remained unbeaten in India for about 4000 days, according to a statistic I saw somewhere. That demonstrates how excellent they are in India.
“They have also been successful outside of India. We are no different from any other country that found it tough to come to India. That being said, he pointed out, “to be able to demonstrate the fight we feel like we can put up, we have to play really well against them.
When asked if they would benefit from a spin-friendly pitch in Kanpur, Shakib made it apparent that tracks are not a major consideration when facing elite teams.
Pitches don’t really matter when you play against a team like Australia, England, or India because they will undoubtedly have a weapon that they can use to attack us.
“They will possess excellent fast bowlers, quality batsmen, and quality spinners.” Pitch won’t likely have any impact, in my opinion. All we need to do is outperform our performance from Chennai.
In order for the squad to be competitive, Shakib urged the young hitters from Bangladesh to score a lot of runs.
“If I talk about batting only, I think there has been an improvement. If you see from the first innings to the second innings. First innings we bowled out for about 150.
“In the second innings, we scored about 250. If we can score 350, somewhere there, I think that will be a huge improvement. And 350 to 400 on first innings will give us a lot of confidence and the dressing room will feel a lot more comfortable,” he said.
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