Tawhid Hridoy on Bangladesh's six wicket champions league trophy loss to India
20/02/2025
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20/02/2025
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00:00Okay, we're ready to take questions for Tahir Dirdar. We'll start with questions in English.
00:07Other than yourself and Jackal Ali, the others went quite cheaply. So tell us a little bit about
00:19how the wicket was playing and what your mindset was when you went out because they'd been quite a
00:24few ducks. The mindset was very clear because we lost the wicket, a couple of wickets earlier. So
00:31me and Jackal Ali and we played together. We tried to make a big partnership, nothing else.
00:38The wicket that time was a bit tricky. In terms of the spin, sometimes the ball was a bit creeping.
00:55The well played and hard luck on the result today. What was your assessment of the pitch?
01:00How much did it change in both the innings when you were batting? Did you feel any difference
01:06when India came out to bat? Did it get slower? Yeah, after power play, if you see today's match,
01:15after the power play we get one ball getting older, that time ball a bit creeping. So it's
01:23easy to take singles that time. Hariday, what did hurt Bangladesh most?
01:35Shami's five wicket haul or Subbar Gill's 100 or Jackal Ali's catch drop?
01:42It's okay, it's part of the game. They bowled well, Shami bowled well, Jackal Ali,
01:49yeah, he dropped a catch but it's part of the game. It's not a big deal for us. Hopefully
01:53we will come back strongly.
02:01Yeah, Tauhid, you know, the first Bangladeshi batsman to score in an ICC tournament against
02:10India. So the match didn't go your way but for the future, I mean, how do you assess this?
02:18The kind of odds that you have to battle today? So far, Alhamdulillah, for my first century.
02:26Yeah, it will give me the confidence in the future, hopefully.
02:30Thank you. Hi Hariday, this is Abullah from Graf today.
02:35Tough luck first of all, you lost the match despite a very good innings. I want to ask you
02:40that you guys elected to bat first despite winning the toss. It had drizzled overnight and
02:48there was moisture in the pitch and every time a team is bowling second, they find it difficult
02:54to grip the ball due to dew. Despite all these things, after winning the toss, choosing to
03:00field first, was it the decision of this think tank or it was the captain's decision? No, we
03:06were very clear about the toss. We wanted to bat first. So we played one practice match here,
03:13so we know the wicket and we know the condition. So yes, we wanted to bat first.
03:23It was 5 for 35. So what was the thing that was going on in your mind, how to combat? And without
03:30this partnership of 156, I mean, Bangladesh would not have been able to make a very healthy score.
03:39So what was your painful thing? From 90 to 100, you were really struggling. How could you manage
03:46to handle the pressure? First of all, when we lost the early wicket, I focused on how to make the
03:56partnership. When we played, me and Zakir just discussed, we have to build one big partnership
04:03from here. So yeah, we executed, but if Zakir played big innings, then it will be more easier
04:16for us. So after 19, when I was a bit cramping, so okay, it's part of cricket.
04:25First of all, well played. The way you particularly handled the Indian spinners
04:32in those middle overs was quite brilliant, like you were looking for singles and doubles,
04:36and then you played some good shots as well. So just wanted to know from your experience,
04:40what was the best way to play spin on that pitch? And do you think when the Indian batters were
04:44batting, spinners were more effective against some of the Indian batters, because, you know,
04:48Indian batters, they don't play those sweeps or reverse sweeps. So they have to play straight and
04:53spin can bind their run scoring? Yeah, when I faced the Indian spin side,
05:04I was a bit uncomfortable, because they bowled well, they bowled good area. And if you look
05:13in our spin attack, when Rishad bowled, I think he bowled really well today. So in terms of spin,
05:20it's a bit tricky. So yes, this condition. Hi, now you travel to Pakistan, and conditions
05:29will be different there. So how do you plan for the Pakistan matches? Yeah, we know Pakistan
05:35condition will be different. So we will get for, we will, from here we will come back strongly
05:43first, then we will get, when we will get to practice session, then we will plan for that.
07:44I think we will give a fight in this run. And we have already given a fight, we bowled well.
07:51In the beginning, there was a bit of a boundary, but if we could have taken two wickets,
07:56then the scene would have been different. So as a player, we always have to fight as much as we run.
08:06So our mindset will always be that we will play as much as we run.
08:40We will see how we get out of here. And I had a belief that if I could carry, I have bowled a lot of
08:49darts at one time. So I thought I could cover it, because I have the viability. If I didn't have
08:56the cramping at that time, maybe I could have given the team more than 20-30 runs. So if such a time
09:03comes up, I will think about how to overcome it from here, Inshallah.
09:08I didn't have the opportunity to talk to anyone in the beginning, because all the early wickets
09:14have gone. And as I said, it was just a partnership between me and Zakir and Rishabh.
09:20It's okay, it can happen one day. But I hope we don't make the same mistake again, Inshallah,
09:26and that we can overcome it as well as we can from here.
09:29You said that you have given a lot of dot balls because of the situation.
09:39Was the wicket that you saw today like a counterattack in the beginning? Or how helpful was it for batting?
09:48The wicket was tricky. As I said earlier, the wicket was tricky because they can't bat comfortably.
09:55So I don't want to say anything about the wicket. We have to face the wicket when it comes in front of us.
10:00We have to play according to the demand. The conditions will not be the same everywhere.
10:06So I don't have any excuse. I just want to say that we have to be ready to face whatever comes in front of us.