Veteran Bangladesh cricket workforce quick bowler Taskin Ahmed missed the T20 World Cup 2024 match towards India on account of ‘oversleeping’, a report claimed. The report acknowledged that the workforce administration couldn’t contact Taskin as he was sleeping in his room and consequently, he missed the workforce bus within the build-up to the encounter. A workforce official was compelled to remain again on the workforce resort as they might not contact Taskin and he joined the squad late on the venue. The report added that Taskin has apologised to his teammates for lacking the workforce bus and the coach determined to not play him for the India recreation.

It got here as fairly a shock for followers in addition to specialists that Bangladesh didn’t embody Taskin of their enjoying XI and went with Tanzim Hasan Sakib and Mustafizur Rahman as their solely two quick bowlers.

“It’s true that he (Taskin) joined the workforce later after lacking the workforce bus,” an official informed Cricbuzz.

“However why he didn’t play solely the coach can say as a result of whether or not he was within the plan or not (towards India) is one thing that may be answered by the top coach (Chandika Hathurusingha),” he mentioned.

“If there was any problem (between coach and the participant) how he performed the following recreation towards Afghanistan,” he mentioned. “He apologized to his workforce mates and everybody for not having the ability to stand up on time and that is it and no have to make a difficulty out of it,” he added.

Bangladesh head coach Chandika Hathurusingha has not made any touch upon the matter.

India received the encounter towards Bangladesh comprehensively by 50 runs. The Indian batters had been in good type as Hardik Pandya (50), Rohit Sharma (23), Virat Kohli (37), Rishabh Pant (36), and Shivam Dube (34) all scored runs to information their aspect to an essential victory within the T20 World Cup 2024.