Mehidy Laments Missed Chance as West Indies Sweep ODI Series 3-0

Mehidy Hasan Miraz, the captain of Bangladesh, chastised bowlers for their subpar performance after Thursday's 3-0 series loss to the West Indies at Warner Park, where they lost by four wickets in the third and final ODI. The Tigers lost, and the host team dominated them in all three games, making the series a forgettable one for the Tigers. 

Before the ODI series began, Bangladesh drew the two-match Test series 1-1. The final game was equally dismal for the visiting squad, who had lost the first two by five and seven wickets, respectively. After hitting 321/5 and bringing the hosts down to 86/4 in their chase, Mehidy and company may have thought they were in a winning position. However, they were able to chase down the large total with 4.1 overs remaining thanks to an undefeated century from debutant Amir Jangoo (104* off 83) and a well-paced knock from Keacy Carty (95 off 88). 

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Mehidy admitted that Bangladesh's confidence ahead of the Champions Trophy had been damaged by the series loss. He did, however, stress that they still have time to correct their mistakes prior to the world tournament. With five losses in their previous six games, including series losses to Afghanistan and the West Indies, Bangladesh's recent ODI performance has been dismal. They defeated Sri Lanka 2-1 in the series, which was their sole ODI victory of the year.

Cricbuzz reported him saying, "Losing after scoring 320 runs is disappointing. I did not believe that we would lose this match. To be honest, we picked four wickets inside the first 20 overs but later they built a partnership of 150 runs and we could not get any wickets while they scored a lot of boundaries. We could not bowl the way we should have done and that was probably the problem."

He further added, "They needed to score [close to] 6.50 runs per over and you have to be calculative while chasing and we would have done the same thing. Obviously, the wicket was good and we had small mistakes. If we could have rectified those mistakes we could have done better. It is difficult for each bowler on this kind of wicket because you won't get that much help when the batsmen play a lot of shots the opportunity of scoring runs increases. It was challenging but I feel if we could do a bit better it would have been good for both pacers and spinners."

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