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Tigers regain confidence after winning start


Published : 12 Jul 2022 09:19 PM

Tigers finally roared with the real form of their kind to break the winning draught to regain confidence in the ongoing tour of West Indies when they won the first ODI following the Test and T-20 series defeat.

In fact, Tigers have had their back against the wall after losing the Test and T20 series in their ongoing tour of West Indies and finally get better in the ODI series to outplay the host in the first match on Sunday.        

There have some outcomes of this win also when after a long time it would be a huge boost up to regain the confidence, winning match in absence of team’s two premier performers Shakib Al Hassan and Musfiqur Rahim is also provide them some courage.     

The win of the first ODI is not only the consolation of defeats in the Test and T20 series but also a great boost up for the next two matches of the series, as the Tigers will now looking forward to win the series and that will bring back some of their prides.         

The period of Test and the T20 series were a nightmare for the Tigers when began their tour of West Indies with an embarrassing seven wickets defeat in the first Test and could not bounce back in the second Test and conceded 10 wickets defeat to suffer the series defeat by 2-0.

Tigers’ distress increased when the hosts inflicted defeat in the three-match T20 series by 2-0 after the first match was washed out due to rain.              

Bangladesh, however, have been struggling for a long to get rid of their tricky condition when it looked that they became tired after conceding defeats after defeat, specially, in Test and T20 games.  

Bangladesh embarked in the ODI series with a six wickets victory, might be that was an outcome of confidence they earned from their historic ODI series win against South Africa at their home in the recent past.

However, it’s a great relief for the Tigers having the winning start in the ODI series, which could act out as a great tonic for the Tigers in the rest of the matches of three-match series.   

Tigers won the first ODI in absent of two big names of the team - Shakib Al Hassan and Mushfiqur Rahim, who usually come out as turning points of any match playing the winning knock and even a solo efforts from any of the two play the key role of winning a match, as there is evidences they did in different previous occasions.  

This win will intensify the players’ courage and confidence in absence of Mushfique and Shakib, mentally Tigers will become stronger and can believe that they are able to win matches in their absent and missing any of vital performers will not effect in the team’s performances.  

But, of course both the bowlers and batters of Tigers’ deserve credits of winning the match, though the bowlers played a bit better role.

In the rest of the two matches also the combined efforts of bowlers and batters will be the key power for the Bangladesh team to continue their winning run.