There is nothing in the Mirpur pitch for the bowlers, says Ottis Gibson – Cricket News Update
http://www.senore.com/Cricket/Ottis-Delroy-Gibson-c80358, the West Indies coach, believes that his team’s decision to declare the first innings on day 2 was the correct one and expressed that the pitch at Mirpur is extremely flat, offering no assistance to the bowlers.
Having won the toss on day one, the visitors elected to bat first in classic batting conditions, posting a mammoth total of 527 runs for the loss of just four wickets, before http://www.senore.com/Cricket/DJG-Sammy-c1382 decided to declare the West Indies innings.
http://www.senore.com/Cricket/D-Ramdin-c1299 also registered three-figure scores.
The home team replied strongly and had scored 455 runs for the loss of six wickets by the close of play on day 3, thanks to splendid knocks by http://www.senore.com/Cricket/Mohammad-Nasir-Hossain-c77146.
Some of the analysts believe that the Caribbean men should have carried on with their first innings in order to put Bangladesh under pressure.
However, Gibson expressed that West Indies have come with an aggressive attitude in Bangladesh and taking into account the flat nature of the pitch, the think-tank decided to give some additional time to the bowlers, who have to work extremely hard to take wickets.
“You can make 600 but you will still need to have enough time to come back and win the match,” Gibson said. “The pitch is flat and the ball didn't do much for pace or spin. So if you want to get 20 wickets, you need more time to bowl them out.”
The former http://www.senore.com/Cricket/West-Indies-c760 fast bowler feels that that there is no lateral movement for the bowlers at Mirpur and they can pick up wickets only by intimidating the batsmen. Gibson also praised the efforts of the Bangladesh batsmen, who took the attack to the West Indian bowlers.
“There is not a lot on the pitch, not a lot of swing. So guys running in were trying hard. On a flat pitch like that you need to unsettle them with bouncers. But credit to the http://www.senore.com/Cricket/Bangladesh-c747 batsman, they didn't let us bully them too much,” he added.
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