Bangladesh went into the 2024 T20 World Cup with the goal of qualifying for the Super Eight stage – something they achieved – but by the end, they missed out on an opportunity to reach the final four.
However, failing to reach the semi-finals has not been deemed to be a failure by the Bangladesh Cricket Board as its cricket operations chairman Jalal Yunus said that they were satisfied to have met their initial objective.
‘We had aimed at qualifying for the Super Eight before the World Cup. We did that. If we split it into two halves, firstly, everyone is happy that we achieved our goal,’ he told the media on Saturday.
‘Then comes the overall performance. We could not do well with the bat throughout the tournament. We had regular collapses at the top of the batting order, for which we could not do well with the bat.’
After the team returned to Bangladesh on Friday morning, vice-captain Taskin Ahmed had said that he had not seen such a long patch of poor batting from the whole unit in his international career, words that Jalal echoed the following day.
‘We have never seen the batting order fail so consistently. Maybe someone failed but someone else covered for that. But both our top and middle order failed. The top order is more at fault. The players accept it. We must figure out our weaknesses and work on them,’ Jalal said.
