Bangladesh pace bowler Taskin Ahmed feels that they are unable to post a good total as they are not habituated to playing on good wickets back at home.

Bangladesh lost to India by 86 runs at the Arun Jaitley Stadium in Delhi on Wednesday as the hosts clinched the three-match T20I series, courtesy of Bangladesh batting unit’s failure as they managed to post only 135-9 after restricting India to 221 runs.

Bangladesh made a bright start on Wednesday by putting pressure on their opponent in the powerplay as India were struggling at 45/3. But they made a huge turnaround on the back of Rinku Singh(29-ball 53) and Nitish Kumar Reddy(34-ball 74) as they put up a 108-run stand in just eight overs to lay the platform for a huge total.

“They score 180 to 200 runs regularly. For us that is 130-40 at home. We don’t have that habit( scoring big runs) and that is reality. Hopefully in the coming days our home conditions will get better and at that point we can chase big runs and defend as well,” Taskin told reporters after the match.

“At the same time, if we can play different franchise leagues we will have a better experience. Our cricket will develop when the structure of our domestic cricket is strong,” he added.

“The fluently they play their shots when there is a little bit of error at home, if we try to play shots lying down like them it would hit our head. This habit that they have grown due to playing on good wickets from the early stage of their career is their biggest strength,” he said, adding that he feels changing Sher-e-Bangla National Cricket Stadium’s head curator Gamini De Silva might help them in the long run.

The Sri Lankan has been working in BCB for the last 14 years as head curator of SBNS and often been criticized for preparing low and slow wickets.

We are not habituated to scoring big runs: Taskin“It can happen (wicket becomes good after changing Gamini De Silva as the head curator of Sher-e-Bangla National Stadium) though the decision lies in the hands of the board. We have already informed the board (to prepare good wickets and take decisions in that direction) and the board is thinking about it,” he said.

“Board will help us to have better conditions and how the board will do that lies to them,” he added.

Taskin admitted that it is unfortunate that they could not improve in T20Is while adding that they are not a team that can win a game on the back of one or two performances.

“Unfortunately we could not improve a lot in T20 and that is our fault. We need to improve our skill at the same time if we need to play in good wicket,” he said.

“We are such a team we win when more than 80 percent players perform and we don’t win on the back of one or two performances so overall if we cannot play good cricket it is difficult for us to win games and there are a lot of areas to improve,” he added.

Taskin added that they paid the price of dropping Nitish in the second game of the three-match T20I series against India at Arun Jaitley Stadium in Delhi on Wednesday.

Nitish, who brought up his maiden international fifty, off just 27 balls, was dropped by Liton Kumer Das early on five runs as he failed to hold on to a catch of the right-hander when he tried to hook a short delivery of Tanzim Hasan Sakib and only managing to gloved it to keeper.

“Catch drop is always costly especially against opponent like them who are best in the world. The margin of error is very small and so it was costly (dropping the catch),” said Taskin.

“Look in the power play we did well but they batted well in the end and unfortunately spinners had a bad day. Normally we don’t have this kind of bad days but in T20 anything can happen on any day. The spinners could not grip the ball as there was dew. We were in the game till the 11 or 12 over and this wicket if we could keep them under 180 runs it was chase-able,” he said.

“We could not score a lot of runs and that is our failure but this wicket is very good for batting,” he concluded.