Georgetown (Guyana), July 17 (UNI) After winning the ODI series against West Indies 3-0 in absence of senior players like Shakib Al Hasan and Mushfiqur Rahim, Bangladesh ODI skip-per Tamim Iqbal acknowledged that his team isn’t fully ready yet on the road to 2023 Men’s Cricket World Cup in India next year. At the same time, Tamim stated that he is starting to get some ideas about how Bangladesh is shaping up for ODI World Cup.
“Naturally our goal is the 2023 World Cup and there is no doubt about it and we are in that process (of building the team for the tournament) but to be honest I don’t want to look too far ahead because you never know what will happen and things like that as to who is injured and who is there in the team and who is not.” “But I can say I am getting a little bit of idea about what kind of combination I will be playing if one or two key players are missing due to injuries. I won’t say my team is fully ready and all those things but we are getting some ideas for sure,” Tamim was quoted as saying by Cricbuzz after the third ODI.
Tamim, who has now won five ODI series as captain, revealed that he decided against making wholesale changes for the third match despite taking an unassailable lead in the series at the request of the team management.
“When I spoke with the management (about testing the bench strength) they felt we should go with the full strength and we did that. We were supposed to make one change because we knew that we will be playing on the same wicket again and so we decided to play Taijul in place of one pace bowler.
