Habibul Bashar
Habibul Bashar
Qazi Habibul Basharis a Bangladeshi cricketer and the former captain of the Bangladeshi cricket team, widely regarded as one of the greatest Bangladeshi Test batsmen of all time. Under the managership of Dav Whatmore, he has been found to be the most successful captain to lead the Bangladesh team to overcome several milestones. The first test victory of Bangladesh came under his hands in 2004 against Zimbabwe. Under Bashar's captaincy, Bangladesh have beaten Australia, India, South Africa and Sri Lanka...
belief boost confidence definite self
It was a definite boost for our confidence and self belief.
against agree compared definitely learned matches previous time untrue
Compared to our previous matches against Sri Lanka, we have definitely made significant improvements in the first Test. I must say this time we were more competitive than the past. It is untrue that we have not learned from our mistakes. But I agree that we need a lot more to do in the long run.
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If you make a postmortem, you will definitely find visible improvement. What made us most happy that we removed the tag that we had been too bad against Sri Lanka in the past. The one-day victory erased bitter memories and I think our Test performance was not bad at all if you consider our previous series.
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It is a very good batting wicket and the outfield is fantastic. I definitely want to win the toss here.
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The national team players are very serious to perform well in the competition.
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No team could be compared with them but we are counting on the good cricket we've played recently. I have little doubt about the ability of my players and I want stubborn efforts from them.
far gone
Nothing has gone right for us so far on the tour,
achieve australia days five great match pushing ricky test
It was a great Test match for us -- we had our chances. Pushing Australia to five days is a great thing to achieve and everyone is doing their job. Ricky was unstoppable today.
carry game improvement
It's important that we carry on the improvement we showed in the one-day game to the tests.
confidence field riding
We will take to the field with more confidence riding on the achievements of the first Test.
believe easy isolate last merit ourselves outside perform slept standard tried
Even I slept well last night. We actually tried to take it easy so that we didn't feel much pressure. We tried to isolate ourselves from the outside world and told each other that this is the standard we are going to believe in. We are not doing something unusual. We have the merit to perform like this.
foot quick three wickets
We were on the back foot loosing three quick wickets at the very onset.
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We feel now that we can push any team in the world. We are showing improvement which is most important. As Dav has said, we have to be more consistent with our batting, but we have improved.
achieved against dragging fifth match mighty victory
We are very much happy. We think we achieved a victory in dragging the match to its fifth day against a mighty team.