Bangladesh vs Ireland Test Match Day 4 Highlights 2023 – April 7

Ireland captain: We showed a lot of grit. We all really enjoyed playing Test cricket again, you have to show a lot of fight, which we did, but obviously, it wasn’t enough in the end. It’s a learning curve for us, understanding that when you win the toss and bat in these conditions, you have to score more runs and bat for much longer periods of time. We did that in the second innings. So many things to be happy about, Andy was brilliant with the ball and bat, Lorcan with his century, and Harry with two fifties in the match. We loved it here, thanks to everyone at the BCB, we’d love to be back in the future and hopefully play better cricket.

Shakib Al Hasan: Normally we don’t play on this kind of weekend. Credit goes to Ireland, they fought really well. Taijul bowled really well as far as our bowling is concerned, and in the second innings, all the fast bowlers chipped in. There are a lot of areas where we can improve, this was a match where we could experiment with a few things. We tried to do that, but some things came off and some things didn’t. I thought we were positive enough, and the wicket suited the way we wanted to bat. That’s one area where we are looking to change our approach, and that worked in the match. I wouldn’t say this was an ideal Test wicket, but it was a good batting track.

The Player of the Match is Mushfiqur Rahim: Throughout the Test match, it was important to show character, there was nothing in the deck for the bowlers, so they had to fight really. When you are playing on a deck like that, you need to start really well, the positive intent is really important. Tamim and Litton batted well up front in the second innings, if Ireland took two or three early wickets, there could have been pressure on us. We want to be consistent in the longer format, the way the bowlers took 20 wickets on that pitch was incredible.

Bangladesh vs Ireland Highlights today, Friday 7-4-2023. Only Test, Ireland tour of Bangladesh, Shere Bangla National Stadium, Mirpur.

Toss: Bangladesh chose to bat.
Bangladesh team: 1 Tamim Iqbal, 2 Najmul Hossain Shanto, 3 Mominul Haque, 4 Shakib Al Hasan (c), 5 Mushfiqur Rahim, 6 Litton Das (wk), 7 Mehidy Hasan Miraz, 8 Taijul Islam, 9 Khaled Ahmed, 10 Shoriful Islam, 11 Ebadot Hossain
Ireland team: 1 Murray Commins, 2 James McCollum, 3 Andy Balbirnie (c), 4 Harry Tector, 5 PJ Moor, 6 Curtis Campher, 7 Lorcan Tucker (wk), 8 Mark Adair, 9 Andy McBrine, 10 Graham Hume, 11 Ben White

Head to Head In Test’s: 0
Bangladesh Won: 0
Ireland Won: 0
Bangladesh Test Rankings: 9th
Ireland Test Rankings: 12th

Form guide
(Last five matches; most recent first)
Bangladesh LLLLL
Ireland LLL

Match Timings: 4:00 AM GMT | 10:00 AM Local
Umpires – Aleem Dar, Sharfuddoula
TV Umpire – Ahsan Raza
Match Referee – David Boon
Reserve Umpire – Masudur Rahman
Match number – Test no. 2501

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