T20 World Cup 2021 | Our batting is a concern, we need to bat better, admits Mahmudullah

Bangladesh won the toss and elected to field first. Scotland had a horrible start as they lost six wickets for 53 runs. Chris Greaves and Mark Watt stitched a partnership of 51 runs for the seventh wicket. Greaves scored 45 runs off 28 balls with four boundaries and two sixes, while Scotland ended the innings with 140/9 on the board. Mehidy Hasan took three wickets for 19 runs for Bangladesh.

"We didn't deliberately bat slowly. We couldn't hit those boundaries. We have to bat better next time. A lot of things will come up since we lost the game. I think we didn't play well today, but we are a good T20 team. We have the capability. When we play our best cricket, we can win games," Mahmudullah said.

"We couldn't make runs in the Powerplay. You need to start well chasing 140. I think Mushfiqur and Shakib [Al Hasan] made some recovery but in the middle , we didn't bat well even though it was on a good wicket. We made more mistakes.

"I think some big overs off the spinners would have raised our run rate, but probably losing wickets in the middle overs prevented us from getting those big overs. The asking run-rate, as a result, went up."

"I think Mushy's wicket was the turning point," he said. "He was batting well today. A set batter has to stay. Maybe I didn't bat according to the situation. We should think better as a batting unit.

"If Afif and I, or Sohan and I could have carried a little longer, it would have brought us closer. But credit goes to their bowlers. They executed well. We made silly mistakes, and paid for it."

"I think the bowlers were on the right track. We had them at 53 for 6, but then they had a good partnership. They played better cricket than us. We were just not good enough tonight. Mahedi and Shakib bowled very well. Maybe we could have bowled better in the death overs, but our batting was really bad. If we don't take stock of it, it won't get us anything good," Mahmudullah concluded.