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'Never thought of such a big knock'

NAIMUL KARIM from Chittagong
It's not often that one comes across a scenario in cricket where a player who has scored
his maiden ton in Test cricket ends up being disappointed. Unfortunately for Mominul Haque, who fell 19 runs short of what would have been a spectacular double century, it was one of those days.
"There's no doubt, I am really delighted to score my first century, but I am sad because I missed out on a great opportunity. And I don't know when I can get such a chance again," Mominul told reporters at the post-day press conference.
Except for the time when he was dropped on 171 in the latter half of the day, Mominul's innings was flawless. A wide-angle analysis of his innings would show that the player scored in all parts of the ground. When the bowlers over-pitched he drove them straight back, the short-of-length deliveries were regularly cut through point and the bouncers were pulled away to the boundary.
It was as though Mominul had read the bowlers and the pitch to precision and all that was required from him was to use the wide variety of shots in his arsenal. Little did the Kiwis know about the immense amount of talent that the five-feet-four-inch player possessed.
A modest Mominul however stated that he had never expected to play such a big innings.
"I never thought of playing such a big knock. At first I thought I would just score a hundred but I never thought of scoring 150," he said.
While he did reach his hundred early in the day through four boundaries, the player who started the third day on 77 admitted that he felt a bit of pressure.
"Yesterday (Thursday) when I came to bat, I got a lot of poor deliveries, and they probably did not know much about my weaknesses. Today though, while batting, there was slight pressure on me because the hundred was approaching," said Mominul.
"So I was a bit cautious, plus they bowled in good areas today," added the 22-year-old.
After arriving at the crease on Thursday with Bangladesh struggling at 8 for 2, he raced to 77 of 71 deliveries. Yesterday however, he depended more on singles. His scoring rate dropped further after he reached 150 before he was trapped in front towards the end of the day.
"Actually after I scored 150, they took the new ball and they bowled very well with it. The first two wickets |Tamim Iqbal and Anamul Haque] fell with the new ball as well. So Mushfiqur [Rahim] bhai and I had planned to play carefully," he said.
"We planned to wait for the bad deliveries. But at that time, they were bowling at good areas and the ball was keeping low as well," he added.
Opportunities to score double hundreds do not come that often and Mominul should have seized it. But just going by the sheer talent that the batsman displayed yesterday, one has a feeling that his next opportunity may not be that far away.