Don’t want to worry about conditions and wickets. This is the hope that Bangladesh becomes a good team. Bangladesh T20 captain Shakib Al Hasan said this while inaugurating a showroom in the city after a great victory in the first match of the T20 series against England in Chittagong. Shakib was one of the architects of the 6-wicket win against the T20 world champions. After taking 1 wicket for 26 runs with the ball, he scored 34 runs from 24 balls with the bat and took the team to the port of victory. After finishing the match, he had to run to fulfill other formalities. After inaugurating the showroom, he expressed his determination to make Bangladesh a good team, we don’t want to think about wickets, we don’t want to think about conditions. We want to become a good team. We want to adapt to any condition. That’s what good teams do.

After winning the first match, now surely Shakib’s eyes are on winning the series. Bangladesh lost the ODI series by 2-1. Despite winning the first match in the T20 series, the Bangladesh captain still respects the world champions – ‘England is a very good team. We have to play well. I did well in the first match, I will try to play well in the next matches. Nazmul Hossain Shantar made a big contribution to the win against England tomorrow. His innings of 51 runs from 30 balls went a long way for the team to chase down England’s 156 runs. Tauhid Hridoy, who batted brilliantly in this year’s BPL, also scored 24 runs off 17 balls. Rony Talukdar, who got a chance in the national team again after eight years, also scored 21 with 14 balls. In the end, Afif accompanied Shakib, scoring 15 runs off 13 balls.

A fairly new-look side grabbed the win against Buttler-Malan-Moeen Ali-Sam Curren. It is positive. But Shakib thinks, after a fresh start, now we have to take this performance forward, the start is good, now we can move forward from here, we have to do our work that way. We will try to do that and try to play well.

The strike rate of the three batsmen in yesterday’s match came as a relief. Nazmul’s strike rate was 170, Rony’s 150, and Touhid’s 141. Shakib himself has batted at a strike rate of 141. Shakib wants, if given a chance, the newcomers should prove themselves in this way, if someone plays like this or if someone new comes to the team and can prove himself, it is good for the team, and it is also good for the player.