Fatullah : Even after failing to take a single Indian wicket on Day One of the one-off Test, Bangladesh coach Chandika Hathurusingha defended the team management’s decision of not including pacer Rubel Hossain in the playing XI on the pretext of keeping him fit of the ODIs.
“Rubel’s thing is that he is coming after an injury and is not hundred per cent. The other reason is that this wicket, we thought that if Rubel has to play and has to bowl a lot then there is a chance of a recurrence of his injury because he didn’t get a chance to play practice matches,” the coach said.
“Not that he is not fit, he is not to fit to bowl on this kind of a wicket because you need a lot of effort to bowl on this kind of a wicket to be successful. If the wicket was helping fast bowlers, we could have gone in a different way. The reason to pick the spinners is again because of the condition of the wicket. We cannot control the Indian strength, what we can control is what we do with our resources. Rubel, we are keeping him for the One-days. It is very crucial for us to win the ODIs, knowing that if we win at least one game, we have a chance of qualifying for the Champions Trophy. So if the condition was different, we would have played another seamer,” Hathurusingha explained.—PTI
