Domingo emphasizes on playing well for full five days

GBNews24 Desk//

Bangladesh head coach Russell Domingo stressed the necessities of playing well for full five days of a Test match, not the four days which his side has been playing for the last couple of years and eventually conceding defeat from a position of strength.

Of late, Bangladesh lost three Tests from winning position, one against Pakistan and West Indies at home and one against South Africa at away. On three occasions, Bangladesh played extremely well for four days to raise the hope of a victory but one bad session on day five cost them the game dearly.

And after losing the first Test from a good position, Bangladesh lost the momentum in the second Test and performed badly.

Reminding those incidents, Domingo said only playing well for full five days could guarantee a victory in Test cricket and that is what Bangladesh should do if they want to win a Test series against Sri Lanka.

The first of the two-match Test series starts on Sunday at Zahur Ahmed Chowdhury Stadium in Chattogram.

“Against Pakistan we were 200 ahead and then we lost wickets. Against the West Indies, we probably should have won the (Chattogram) Test when they chased down 395. We won the Test in New Zealand. We played really well in the first four days in the Durban Test,” Domingo said on Friday, BSS reports.

“The challenge is to sustain that in the second Test. I definitely think we have the ability to beat any side if we play really well for the full five days. Not for four days.”

He went on to saying: “When we have a bad session, we have a really bad session. If we lose one or two wickets, we can’t lose five. It is something we are trying to address all the time. We are trying to stay calm in the dressing room, so that the batsmen stop the rot.”

According to Domingo, Bangladesh still are in good shape in Test cricket, contrary to what the people said. All they need to do to gain the patience to play well for 10 days for two Test matches.