BSS, Dhaka :
Bangladesh Cricket Board (BCB) Selection Panel Chairman Gazi Ashraf Hossain Lipu laid emphasize on bringing back Litton Das into the International cricket more strongly, considering the fact that the opposition analysts figured out his problems acutely.
“We have our own analysts and experts but from what we have seen that the opposition analysts became successful against Litton Das with their plan. It’s because that Litton’s pattern of dismissals have been similar for quite some times now,” Ashraf told the reports on Sunday while announcing the team for the Champions Trophy.
The selection panel dropped Litton from the squad after he managed just 13 runs in his last seven ODI innings. If his last five ODI innings is taken into consideration, he scored just six runs which included three ducks.
In fact he has been struggling in white-ball formats for a while and his last fifty in ODIs came in the 2023 World Cup in India. That tournament too was also a poor by his own standards.
“This is the high time to keep him out of the squad as he needs to find out a formula to break the pattern of his dismissals,” Ashraf, also a former Bangladesh captain revealed.
“Taking him out of the side doesn’t mean he is out of the national team. We have many matches ahead and our experts will definitely get a chance to work with him to make his weak areas stronger. We want him to comeback more strongly.”
Litton Das also had a poor outing in ongoing Bangladesh Premier League (BPL) but in the last match game of Dhaka Capitals he struck 43 ball-73 to hint a revive of his form. Dhaka though lost the game.
Ashraf believes they have given Litton enough chance to get back to the form but his poor performance negatively affected Bangladesh’s batting.
“We always want our openers to take the advantage of the powerplay but in the recent time, Litton Das was not successful in doing that. In West Indies where we scored 300-plus runs, you can see his strike-rate or that he could not occupy the crease,” Ashraf said.
