BRISBANE, Oct 30, 2022 (BSS)- Fast bowler Taskin Ahmed continued to live up
to the expectation, making Bangladesh a strong contender in the ICC T20 World
Cup even though his side time and again proves them vulnerable in this
format.

Bangladesh so far won two matches out of three in the tournament and both
victory came, thanks to a terrific bowling performance of Taskin Ahmed. He
was adjudged man of the match in Bangladesh's both wins, showing how
influential he turned out to be in terms of performance. Not only that, he is
now the highest wicket-taker in this World Cup with eight wickets from three
matches.

Taskin in fact was always a wicket-taking bowler but the fact is that his
achievement was dented due to leaking runs in abundance. Of late he plugged
this loophole, making him almost unplayable. Netherlands and Zimbabwe got the
wrath as they were undone by his searing spell.

And he also made taking wicket in the first over a habit one. After getting
wicket first over against Netherlands and South Africa in the previous two
matches in the first over, he again took a wicket in the first over against
Zimbabwe in Brisbane today. That set the tone against an opponent who beat
them in three match T20 series by 2-1 three months ago and also came up with
high on confidence after beating Pakistan by one run in the last ball
thriller in the previous game.

Taskin ended up taking 3-19 but most importantly broke the spine of Zimbabwe
batting line up after Bangladesh put up 150-7.

According to Najmul Hossain Shanto, Bangladesh were at least 15/20 runs short
of their desired target.

"But Taskin and other fast bowlers bowled so well that this score turned out
to be winning total. In fact, we had confidence on our fast bowlers," Shanto
said.

 Due to his talismanic impetus, Taskin was chosen for the man of the match
despite Shanto's 55 ball-71.

"I'm focusing on my process and this was the result of that. The pitches back
home are slow, here we are getting early movement and help. So everything is
going well," Taskin said.

"We have a good fast-bowling bunch and are working on improving. Allan Donald
and other support staff are helping us. Hopefully we'll improve further."