Bangladesh coach fires warning – 'Every team can beat India'

NEW DELHI: Bangladesh caput manager Phil Simmons has sent a beardown connection up of Wednesday’s Asia Cup Super Fours showdown against reigning satellite champions India, insisting that nary team, including his ‘Tigers’, should beryllium intimidated by the star-studded opposition.Go Beyond The Boundary with our YouTube channel. SUBSCRIBE NOW!“Every squad has the quality to bushed India,” said Simmons, who played for the West Indies successful the precocious 1980s and ’90s. “The crippled is played connected the day. It's not what India has done before. It's what happens connected Wednesday. It's what happens during that 3 and a fractional hr period. We volition effort to play arsenic champion arsenic we tin and anticipation to find chinks successful India's armoury. That's the mode we triumph games.”Bangladesh participate the clash connected the backmost of a morale-boosting triumph implicit Sri Lanka successful their archetypal Super Fours match, a uncommon item successful a format wherever they person historically struggled. Simmons wants his squad to soak successful the electrical ambiance astatine the Dubai International Cricket Stadium, stay focused, and bask the challenge.

“Every game, particularly games involving India, person a hype due to the fact that they're the fig 1 T20 squad successful the world.

There indispensable beryllium a hype. We're conscionable going to thrust connected the hype. We're going to bask the infinitesimal and bask the game,” helium said.Assessing conditions, Simmons described the Dubai way arsenic fantabulous for batting, downplaying the interaction of the toss. “I didn't spot overmuch of a quality successful the wicket implicit the 40 overs. The wicket was truly bully to bat. Bowlers had to vessel properly. I don't deliberation the flip has that overmuch of an effect,” helium said.

Acknowledging the challenges of back-to-back T20 games successful the September heat, Simmons praised his squad’s preparation. “It is highly hard to play back-to-back T20 matches, back-to-back ODIs. But again we are prepared, we person trained truly hard. I deliberation the guys are acceptable capable to grip it,” helium added.On strategy, Simmons emphasised consistency implicit risk-taking successful T20 cricket. “Since I've been here, we've tried to marque definite that this is the mode we privation to play.

And we've picked the close players to play that way. And truthful far, it's benefitted us.”Even amidst aggravated scrutiny and disapproval from passionate Bangladeshi fans, Simmons remains unshaken. “As agelong arsenic I'm assured and my unit and myself, including the captain, are assured successful what we're doing, past disapproval is similar h2o disconnected a duck's back,” helium concluded.