KOLKATA: More questions over the current state of Bangladesh cricket arose on Saturday as the side suffered its fifth straight loss in the ongoing World Cup at the Eden Gardens here. Bangladesh skipper Shakib Al Hasan was in an introspective mood, accepting all criticisms after the 87-run defeat to the Netherlands all but ended their hopes of advancing beyond the group stage.
“I don’t have an answer as to why we played this way. We were sloppy in the field. We haven’t batted the way we can bat throughout the tournament,” he conceded at a post-match press conference. Twenty-four years after they made their World Cup debut, Bangladesh are yet to make the semifinals and Shakib admitted that this was the country’s “worst ever” World Cup campaign.
