Miraz hopeful of Tigers’ good result in Asia Cup

Young all rounder of Bangladesh team Mehedy Hasan Miraz expressed his high hope about his team’s good result in the Asia Cup if everything goes possitive with the team.

He was speaking to the pressmen today on the second day of the camp at Mipur, BSS reported.

The 20-year old promising all-rounder said every match is challenging for them and keeping this mind each member of the team has been doing hard work and some members are personally practicing in different ways with their own initiative for the tournament.

He hoped that the team would be benefited for the hard work if all able to give their best.

According to Miraz, Bangladesh has been playing good cricket equally in home and abroad in the last four years. In their recent tour in West Indies, Bangladesh won the series in the both limited over formats. Apart from home, Bangladesh also maintained their success in abroad and it boosted their confidence level to do well in the Asia Cup.

One of the youngest members in the Tigers’ squad Miraz said the junior cricketers are equality contributing for team with the senior cricketers who has been playing commanding cricket in the last few years and if they able to give their hundred percent effort in the Asia Cup, definitely something good would be happened with them.

Two-time Asia Cup finalist Bangladesh will look to hold onto the good run in the multi-nation tournament. The Tigers returned to business Monday as the preliminary squad for the Asia Cup reported at Mirpur Sher-e-Bangla National Cricket Stadium in Dhaka.

The six-nation Asia Cup is scheduled to begin on September 15 in Dubai when two-time Asia Cup finalist Bangladesh will take on Sri Lanka.

Bangladesh first played the Asia Cup final in 2012 and lost by only two runs to Pakistan. In second time, the Tigers reached the final in 2016 was played in accordance with the T20I format and there, they lost to India by eight wickets. Both the editions of the tournament were held in Dhaka.