This year’s T20 World Cup started in Australia on October 16. 16 teams are participating in the competition. Bangladesh will play directly on the main stage. Before the start of the main phase, on the second day of the start of the World Cup, however, the Tigers will enter the field to play a warm-up match. Before that, Jamie Siddons spoke about the team. Bangladesh has no idea to score 200 to win the match, said this batting coach.

“I don’t think we need 200 here,” Siddons said of his preparations. 200 won’t be needed tomorrow either, 200 runs score won’t be very important in the World Cup either. 170-180 would be the ideal score here. We will be very happy if we can score 170. That will be enough for our bowling attack. Loot at the Big Bash, the average score there is not 200.”

Changes have already been made to the World Cup team. Sabbir and Saifuddin have been replaced by Soumya and Shariful. Basically, they were dropped due to poor performance. The failure of Team Bangladesh’s top order in the Asia Cup and tri-nation series was noticeable.

However, Siddons thinks 160-170 runs are enough to win the match. He said, “There were only one more than 200 runs innings. So we are not thinking about making 200. If we can score 160-170 regularly, we will win the match with our bowling attack.”

This is the first time Bangladesh will play T20 World Cup in Australia. Shakib’s team has no experience of playing T20 there though they have one-day cricket experience, so it is now to be seen how the Bangladesh batters will do in the new environment.