Mirpur’s black-soil pitch looks more like a paddy field!

Sports Desk

The Bangladesh Cricket Board (BCB) has shown off that old tactic in a more naked way. A wicket that was designed to take advantage of home conditions and win on is far below ideal quality.

The wicket at the Mirpur Sher-e-Bangla Cricket Stadium is already made of black clay. It was made even softer. The ball bounced on the pitch many times. Where Bangladesh won against the West Indies by a big margin of 74 runs despite a huge score of 207 runs.

However, after this victory, the question arises, what is the benefit of playing on such an under-prepared wicket? Maybe the number of wins is increasing in the statistics. But the lack of preparation to play on the world stage is huge.

The ball was turning on the Mirpur wicket in a way that was a puzzle to everyone. Sometimes it was going down, sometimes it was going up.

Bangladesh men’s team’s performance in ODIs has been very poor. They started this series with 11 losses in the last 12 matches. A few days ago, Mehedi Hasan Mirazra was whitewashed by Afghanistan on a sporting wicket.

To add to that pain, the series is being played against the spin-poor Caribbeans on a wicket that is truly terrifying for batters.

Basically, BCB wants to win by cheating. They need it to cover up the controversial election. They no longer think about what will happen after going to the world stage.