Bangladesh coach feels that his team is gaining respect among the other teams

Bangladesh coach feels that his team is gaining respect among the other teams: Bangladesh head coach Chandika Hathurusingha feels that Bangladesh is finally gaining the respect among its peers and the Indian team sending full strength is an indication of it. He was, however, not entirely satisfied with his team’s performance on Thursday despite them posting their biggest win against India.”The best example (of the change in the Bangladesh team) is that India is sending their strongest team,” Hathurusingha said. “It speaks for itself, how far we have come from that series to now. It is always good to gauge your success or what you are doing, by how your peers are looking at you. I think it is a big rap for our boys that India came with their full strength. Our confidence is high, the way we are playing now is also a bit different.”During last year’s three-match ODI series, India were without regular captain MS Dhoni, Virat Kohli, Shikhar Dhawan, Rohit Sharma, R Ashwin, Ravindra Jadeja, Bhuvneshwar Kumar and Mohammad Shami.It was pretty much an India A squad that was sent. Suresh Raina’s side won 2-0, including the one in which Stuart Binny rattled the Bangladeshi side bowling Bangladesh out for just 58 runs. It was also Hathurusingha’s first assignment as head coach and it was a tumultuous time after Shakib Al Hasan had got into a fracas with a fan during one of the matches. Bangladesh had a decent world cup campaign and have notched up wins in the last nine games that they played on their home turf. Notwithstanding his side vanquishing India by 79 runs in the first game, seems like Hathurusingha is not entirely pleased with his side’s effort. “I am not happy at all with the last game,” Hathurusingha said. “That’s the scary part: we still can improve in all departments. We played better against Pakistan. I think we are looking to improve from the next game.

“When you get a start, we always talk about going big in partnerships. We talk about simple things, which we did well against Pakistan. I want them to do that in the middle. We had three-four hundreds against Pakistan. If one of the top batters get set and go for a big score. It helps us to score big runs,” he said.On Mustafizur Rahman, who took a five-wicket haul on debut in the previous match, Hathurusingha said it helped him that he is an “unknown factor” but his job would only get tougher and tougher as teams would start devising plans to prepare for his kind of bowling.

“Definitely for any bowler, when you come into international cricket, because you are unknown factor, it is a big plus,” he said. “Nowadays even before that, they can look at videos and be prepared. For Mustafizur it is going to be a challenge because people get to know more and respect him a bit more. But again, he has to execute well, so has the batsmen. We expect the Indians to come hard at us.”