None of us had dinner after the loss to India: Mashrafe Mortaza

Bangladesh team has taken giant leaps in terms of achievement in limited overs cricket since the past one and half year. Series wins at home against the big teams and a superb start to the year 2016 by reaching the Asia cup T20 finals speaks about their growth. The rising Asian Giants entered the World T20 with a lot of hopes not only from their cricket-mad fans but also from the observers of cricket.

However, the team, after comfortably qualifying into the Super 10 stage, were shockingly ousted from the tournament without winning a single game. They were beaten hands down by Australia and Pakistan in their first two games. But, it was the narrow loss at the hands of their Asian rival India that caused heartbreak for the Bangladeshis.

Skipper Mashrafe Mortaza has revealed that he and his teammates skipped dinner after their gut-wrenching one-run defeat against India in the recently concluded World T20.

“We were very upset with that defeat. None of us had dinner that evening. Losing is a part of the game and we did not want to lose that match,” Mortaza was quoted as saying by a local website, when a local boy asked about Bangladesh not being able to score two runs off the last three balls during their group league encounter against India, Mortaza, who is holidaying in Kashmir, said while speaking with local youngsters.

It was a chance encounter for the locals with the Bangladeshi captain as he stopped by at a village on Srinagar-Sonamarg road yesterday.

“On his way back to summer capital (Srinagar) from Sonamarg, he saw a few youngsters playing cricket at Kullan. Mortaza stopped the vehicle and met the players,” the website report stated. The seamer gave some tips to the young players and even displayed his skills by bowling a few deliveries.