Dhaka, March 01: Dismissing criticism that Shakib Al Hasan should not have opted to field first in the World Cup match against India, Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina yesterday said the decision was right.
“Who can say for sure we would have done well batting first?” she asked while presiding over the weekly cabinet meeting at the secretariat.
“They [Bangladesh cricket team] could have been bowled out for 170 to 180 runs. So, Shakib’s decision in my view was right,” a minister quoted the prime minister as saying.
Hasina also observed that it is irrational to say that asking India to bat was a serious mistake, the minister told The Daily Star in return for anonymity.
In the World Cup opening match at Mirpur Sher-e-Bangla Stadium on February 19, India scored 370 runs for four wickets and Bangladesh 283 for nine in reply.
——–Agencies