Along with three pacers Mustafizur Rahiman, Taskin Ahmed and Sharful Islam, the Tigers chose a specialist leg-spinner in Aminul Islam with his partner in the spin bowling department being off-spinner Mahedi Hasan. Bangladesh team have been following this theory almost blindly in the last few years in all formats. The leg-spinner Aminul was poorly treated Friday. In the recently concluded T20 World Cup, two of the highest wicket-takers were leg-spinners - Hasaranga with 16 wickets and Zampa with 13 wickets. When Zampa got five wickets against Bangladesh in their Super 12 match, four of his scalps were those of left-handed batsmen.

Source: Dhaka Tribune November 19, 2021 22:16 UTC