Bangladesh skipper Shanto Najmul Hossain on Friday vowed that his new team will play an aggressive brand of cricket in the upcoming T20 series against India, saying the Test series defeat is now behind them. India whitewashed Bangladesh 2-0 in the Test series and won the Kanpur match in just six sessions. The T20 series starts in Gwalior on Sunday at the brand new Shrimant Madhavrao Scindia Cricket Stadium.
“We want to win this series, to be very honest. We want to play aggressive cricket. If you look at our last World Cup, we had a very good chance of playing in the semi-finals but we couldn't do that. But it is a new team so I hope all the players here will play good cricket,” Shanto told reporters.
The skipper said he will not think about his team's struggles in the Test series.
“We all know we haven't played our best cricket (in Tests). So we don't think about what we have done before. Going forward it is a very important series for us and we all know that in T20 it is a total other series is That particular day, those who play well will win the match.” Both India and Bangladesh will have new teams taking the field, with senior players making way for the youngsters.
India will have an all-new squad, led by Suryakumar Yadav, while Bangladesh will have just five players in their T20 squad who were also part of the Test squad.
Shanto said that since the series opener is in new territory, pitch behavior would remain a guesswork.
“We know this is a completely different ground, a new ground, and we don't have much idea about the wickets. But we have had practice sessions over the last few days and we have tried to find out how the wickets behave.
“We don't know how the surface will behave. But as an international team we have to adapt as early as possible.” Shanto was hopeful that his team could turn it around in the T20 series because of the “In T20Is you never know. It is important that on that day, batting, bowling, fielding, those who do all the things well, But it It's not about big names, new players or old players. So it's important that we play well that day.”
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