“I ask for endurance, sincerely. I ask for endurance in particular from the Bangladeshi people. I recognize how passionate they are for the sport and for the team to do better. I request persistence. We are looking to put the proper matters in place to get us to play better,” Simmons instructed journalists on Sunday.
“I think we understand as a unit that we did not bat properly within the first innings and that placed us in trouble. The concept is that we need to play a nice emblem of Test cricket. Not simply sitting returned and batting to attain 2 hundred runs in an afternoon – that kind of thing,” he stated.
“The phrase transition is noted within the press, and it takes a piece of time to be whereit you need to be. But the message to them is: a few tender dismissals and unfastened shots here and there, but we want to ensure that improves as we pass along. We cannot have it for one, two, three Test matches,” he said.
“I suppose for me, you need 5 bowlers in Test cricket. We played right here some of the time before, and you also need 5 bowlers right here. We have been given a pinnacle-elegance bowling allrounder in Mehidy Hasan Miraz, who didn’t score many runs within the last Test but has been given Test century hundreds. I don’t assume we want to head down that path [playing an extra batter]. You want to have 5 bowlers because you want to take 20 wickets,” he said.
“It will either be 3 seamers and two spinners, or two seamers and three spinners (laughs). Either way, I can not come up with a specific solution yet. We have a concept, however, we will finalise that the following day,” he stated.
“The wicket seems first-rate. It is difficult and flat. It is a piece of dry wood, but optimistically, we can extract something that hasn’t been there. A bit of flip afterward within the Test fit could be desirable for us,” he stated.
Simmons added that he isn’t always worried approximately the departure of Nahid Rana, who left for the PSL after missing the hole Test, as he has other pacers to replace him.
“I do not assume we misplaced strength. We misplaced the tempo. There’s no other person right here with Rana’s tempo. The skills are there, but especially for a way to bowl in Chattogram. It has continually been a slower wicket. Hopefully, we will extract a chunk of turn and the seamers can do the task with their skills.