Shakib's 3-0 win over Sri Lanka series

Despite winning the ODI series against Sri Lanka, the Bangladesh team lost the last match and missed the opportunity to whitewash it. All-rounder Shakib Al Hasan's regret is there. It would have been ideal if the result had been 3-0 rather than a 2-1 win at the end of the series as an ODI Super League point.

Shakib's 3-0 win over Sri Lanka series

"What I expected did not happen," Shakib said at the unveiling of his team Mohammedan's jersey in the Dhaka Premier League at a hotel in Dhaka today. But it is important to make sure that this does not happen again. I think it is very good that we won the series with Sri Lanka for the first time. Of course, it would have been better if it was 3-0. But if Sri Lanka had played better, the result could have been different. '

Mohammedan will play under the captaincy of this year's Premier League starting from May 31. The team has high hopes for Shakib in the T20 edition of the tournament. Shakib also wants to reciprocate the hope by putting the team at the top, ‘The goal must be to be at the top of the list. But the league is actually much bigger. It is important to go match by match here. Our first goal is to win the first match, as it is very important to maintain consistency in one game after another and T20. '

Shakib's 3-0 win over Sri Lanka series

Returning from the ICC ban, Shakib has played three T20s for IPL team Kolkata Knight Riders. Where he did not have any specific batting position. Asked where he would bat for Mohammedan this time, Shakib said, "What is good for the team is important to me. I have no problem with him batting for three-four-five-six or at the end. '

 Sunil Gavaskar: Wanted to be an assaulting opener like Rohit Sharma

Sunil Gavaskar, the principal man to 10,000 Test runs, was a batting format for a whole age of Indian cricketers. He's satisfied that the cutting edge is increasing current standards further. In a meeting on India Today's E-Inspiration arrangement, Gavaskar lauded Rohit Sharma's assaulting style specifically, saying he would have wanted to have been a free-streaming opener like Sharma.

Since the beginning of 2015, Sharma has found the middle value of 62.36 in 97 ODI innings and strikes at 95.44, with 24 centuries during that period. He is additionally right now the main batsman to have made different twofold hundreds of years - three - in ODI cricket and is a piece of one of the most productive ODI organizations in history close by Shikhar Dhawan. In the last home season, India changed him into a Test opening job also, where he made a rowdy beginning with three centuries in five games.

Gavaskar himself had an effective vocation as an ODI opener, getting done with a normal of 35.13 in 108 matches. And keeping in mind that a striking pace of 62.26 was not naturally disapproved of during his playing time, he recommended that more faith in his capacities may have made him score at a quicker rate.

"How you see a Rohit Sharma opening the batting in one-day cricket, Test cricket crushing from the first finished," he said. "That is the thing that I needed to play. Conditions and the absence of trust in my capacity didn't permit me to do that. Be that as it may, when I see the cutting edge doing it, I am completely excited, I love viewing the cutting edge because there you see improvement. You perceive how they are setting the bar higher for the people to come."

On a related note, Gavaskar said that the current Indian Test group under Virat Kohli is the best they've at any point had. India is as of now third in ICC's Test rankings, one rating point behind New Zealand, and two behind Australia who is No. 1. They do, be that as it may, have a noteworthy lead at the head of the World Test Championship standings as they support for a Test arrangement against Australia toward the year's end.

"I accept this group is the best Indian Test group as far as equalization, regarding capacity, as far as aptitudes, as far as disposition. Can't think about a superior Indian Test group," Gavaskar said. "This group has the assault to win on any surface. It needn't bother with any assistance [from] conditions. They can win on any surface. Batting-wise, there were groups during the 1980s that were entirely comparable. Yet, they didn't have the bowlers that Virat has."

Quite a bit of India's ongoing achievement in Tests, especially the arrangement win in Australia a year ago, has been credited to an intense and flexible bowling assault. The quick bowlers have close indistinguishable numbers to the spinners under his captaincy, to the extent that no other Indian chief has ever had. The program was a piece of the administration's arrangement to build up a bowling assault that would work anyplace on the planet and has made India a solid danger in abroad Tests. What's left currently, proposed Gavaskar, is a more gathered batting line-together.

"[...] Without an inquiry, India has such a shifted bowling assault today and that is so fundamental. There is an idiom that if you don't take 20 wickets, you won't dominate a game. We have the bowling to take 20 Australian wickets on one run not as much as what India has scored. You have to score runs too. We saw that in England in 2018. We saw that in South Africa in 2017 when we went there. (India lost both arrangements)

"We got 20 wickets inevitably yet we didn't score enough runs. Be that as it may, presently I think we have additionally persuaded the batting to have the option to score a greater number of runs than Australians." 

The Australia squad linked up from around the country for the first time since March and flew out of Perth on Sunday, bound for England, to follow West Indies, Ireland and Pakistan as countries to resume international tours in the "new normal" of the Covid-19 era.

As with the other series to take place in England over the last couple of months the negotiations to make it happen have gone to the top level of governments on both sides of the world with the final sign-off for Australia coming just a couple of weeks ago.

Preparation for the players has differed significantly between states, through a combination of climate and Covid-19 restrictions, ranging from those in Queensland and Western Australia being able to have centre-wicket practice to almost full lockdown in Victoria.

The New South Wales-based contingent have been training in their own group for several weeks and were told to avoid public places such as cafes and restaurants with Covid-19 numbers bubbling along in the state.

In Victoria, where Melbourne has been under stage-four restrictions for three weeks, captain Aaron Finch and Glenn Maxwell have been almost fully home-bound - not even allowed to visit supermarkets - except for training under very strict guidelines at the Junction Oval away from state team-mates.

Steven Smith gave an insight into the level of precautions being taken with an Instagram post showing him in mask and gloves as he made his way to the airport where he then did a social-distanced interview with the media who were told to stay three metres away.

The atmosphere of the tour will be far removed from when Smith was last in the UK for the World Cup and Ashes a year ago.

"I'm looking forward to getting back into it, obviously it's going to be a bit different than what we're used to being in a bubble and playing with no crowds," Smith told reporters at Sydney airport. "That presents a challenge in itself, but one we're looking forward to. I do like batting there, unfortunately there's going to be no crowd there to egg me on and give me a bit more motivation."

For some of the players who enter the biosecure bubble it could be a way of life for the rest of the year; 12 of the squad will head to the UAE for the IPL after the England series, while the remainder of the party who return back to Australia will be required to quarantine for two weeks in Perth.

The IPL-based players who also play international cricket are then likely to return straight into another bubble for the start of the home season involving India and maybe Afghanistan, while even those playing domestic cricket - the structure of which is still to be confirmed - are increasingly likely to have to enter hubs to enable the season to take place. In the week leading up to the tour, the tone has been that every effort must continue to be made to keep international cricket going.

"I've been very strong with the guys in the last couple of weeks about making sure that we do literally everything we can with regards to the protocols to keep the global game going," Finch said. "Because at the end of the day, if that fails then we are all out of jobs and the game is not in a healthy state, which we can't afford to have."

The England series itself is a brief affair with three T20Is followed by three ODIs, a trip that would normally be low-key by the standards of England-Australia tussles but, as with any sport taking place at the moment, now has huge significance attached. From the ECB's side it means they will have been able to complete their full men's international summer; CA will be hoping they can pull off the same feat later in the year.

On the field, Australia will be aiming to continue their strong T20I form, which has seen them win nine of their last 11 matches - although there is now no T20 World Cup to aim for this year - while in ODI cricket they will be looking to atone for last year's World Cup semi-final defeat and find the missing ingredients to their 50-over form.

Three players could make their international debuts - wicketkeeper batsman Josh Philippe, fast bowler Riley Meredith and left-arm quick Daniel Sams, who have all earned selection largely on the back of their Big Bash returns. Their first taste of the Australia set-up will be something few could have imagined six months ago.

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