Bangladesh captain Mahmudullah said they didn’t score enough runs while taking on India in the second T20I at Rajkot on Thursday (November 7). India won the toss and elected to field first. Despite having a good start, they were restricted by the India spinners.

“It as a very good wicket, but we were 25-30 runs short (of a good target). Having said that, we must give credit to Rohit (Sharma) and Shikhar (Dhawan) for how they played in the second innings,” Mahmudullah said in the presentation ceremony. “Momentum went their way. On a wicket like this, having a wrist-spinner was very handy and Chahal showed that.”

He also said about his own wrist-spinner Aminul Islam, who did a good job and ended the match with figures of 2-29 in 4 overs.

“Aminul is a great find for us, especially with the way he’s been putting effort. Hopefully he will continue to improve in the future,” he added.

He also commented on their batting. They posted a total of 153 for 6 in 20 overs.

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“I don’t think we need to change much but there are few areas in the game, especially when we are batting, which we need to rectify. We have missed the momentum, we could have got 170. We were 102-103 after 12 overs, so we should have got 170-180,” he said.

“Losing a few wickets in the middle overs cost us and these are the areas we need to look on. The openers gave us a very good start and that was a 180-plus wicket. The wicket was very good to bat on. It was the momentum of the game that we needed to understand. We should have understood the threats we faced at that particular time, but we didn’t recognise those things and fell short of those runs,” he admitted.

“I think if you have more than 40 dot balls in a T20, you have less chance of winning the match. We played 38 dot balls there. Maybe that’s okay, but there will definitely be opportunities to improve,” he said. “But our batsmen had to take more responsibility. The goal was to get a good score but we couldn’t do that. It is the failure of our batsmen.”

However, the 33-year old also said that they will assess the condition at Nagpur for the third and final T20I which is scheduled to play on November 10.

“We need to assess the conditions when we go to Nagpur but we needed to be a bit more positive today,” he concluded.