Bangladesh's Mehidy Hasan Miraz has admitted on Tuesday that batting at different positions is difficult for him, and that he prefers a middle-order spot in the ODI set-up.
Bangladesh team management have played Mehidy at five different positions in the ongoing OODI World Cup and it seemed to have taken a huge toll considering none of the batters could claim they had a fixed spot in the batting order.
Mehidy, who is predominantly a lower middle-order batsman, scored a century against Afghanistan during the Asia Cup and since then team management looked adamant to promote him up instead of letting him play where he was groomed for years together. Bangladesh decided to put Mehidy at number eight during the game against Pakistan after trying him at number three, four, five, and seven in the previous six games and he managed to come up with 30-ball 25 that included one four and one six to help the team cross the 200 mark.
"Look I always want to bat in the middle order and I am playing in different positions due to team combination and certainly it becomes difficult for me because you have to see for the last seven years I have played as a lower middle-order batter and I know how to play in that position," Mehidy told reporters after their seven-wicket loss to Pakistan at Eden Garden on Tuesday.
"But I think rather than thinking about it if we want to prove as a batter I have to perform wherever I am given a chance and at that point team will have an expectation that I can perform wherever I bat," he said.
"The thing that you said where I will bat in the next game it totally dependent on the team combination and, before the game, the decision is taken by team management who will bat where in the batting order and this is done for the sake of the team. Whoever can play, chances are given to him. It is just that we are not clicking and we don't want to blame anyone like one or two guys played badly because we all played badly and we are accepting it," he said.
