Why are Bangladesh bad in T20s?

[BengaliPagol]

The pitchmap above is the balls faced by Imran Nazir. The marked areas represent the short balls bowled to him during the match. If you notice real carefully it is quite clear that he hit most of the short balls for boundaries (9 out of the 15 balls bowled short went for boundaries). And throughout his innings he hit 13 boundaries (9 of the boundaries were short balls). If the BD bowlers pitched the ball up then we would have had significantly less amount of runs scored because most of the balls pitched up were mostly 1's and 2's.

This tells alot about Bangladesh's wayward bowling and the tendency to bowl short balls. Short balls cost runs and frankly BD bowlers do not understand that.

[deshprem]

Originally Posted by BengaliPagol
The pitchmap above is the balls faced by Imran Nazir. The marked areas represent the short balls bowled to him during the match. If you notice real carefully it is quite clear that he hit most of the short balls for boundaries (9 out of the 15 balls bowled short went for boundaries). And throughout his innings he hit 13 boundaries (9 of the boundaries were short balls). If the BD bowlers pitched the ball up then we would have had significantly less amount of runs scored because most of the balls pitched up were mostly 1's and 2's.

This tells alot about Bangladesh's wayward bowling and the tendency to bowl short balls. Short balls cost runs and frankly BD bowlers do not understand that.

they just don't learn. smart/good bowlers pick these things up after an over.

[al Furqaan]

Well if you bowl too full he's going to drive. In T20 even edges will run away for a boundary. There is no alternative to bowling the good length ball, or just full of a good length but not driving length. In T20 you're going to go for runs. You just have to bowl as many dot balls as you can.

[BengaliPagol]

Originally Posted by al Furqaan
Well if you bowl too full he's going to drive. In T20 even edges will run away for a boundary. There is no alternative to bowling the good length ball, or just full of a good length but not driving length. In T20 you're going to go for runs. You just have to bowl as many dot balls as you can.

if the ball is wide or short then the batsmen has the possibility of edging the ball for boundaries. If you stick to an honest length then chances of that happening are much smaller. With the short balls Bangladesh bowled, they gave away freebies. Bowling short balls to Nazir isnt going to get him out. Its about restricting him but unfortunately Bangladesh did not do that.

[BengaliPagol]

Originally Posted by deshprem
they just don't learn. smart/good bowlers pick these things up after an over.

Exactly. Even when Shafiul's short balls were going for boundaries for some reason he had an urge to keep bowling short balls. Shocking really. At one point i felt like it was a game of stick cricket...

[Tipu606]

its because of the poor fast bowling, reminded me of the horrors of S.P. Shanto days, now when the captain, Mushfiq keeps on telling Shafiul not to give short pitch(S.P.) balls he goes on doing the same !!Alas nobody knows how to bowl a yorker or an inswinger except maybe Nazmul Hossain who unfortunately is out of action