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Soumya realigned in Ireland

I realised that there was a technical problem, my body weight tends to shift back while playing that shot and I worked on it. SOUMYA SARKAR

Sports reporter
The Bangladesh A team returned home yesterday following their successful tour of Ireland, where the
visitors tied the five match one-day series 2-2 before winning the three-match T20 series 2-1, with skipper Soumya Sarkar leading from the front with the bat.
It was a crucial tour for the lefthander who joined the team in Ireland after once again failing to score for the national team in their three-match T20I series against West Indies in the Caribbean.
The 25-year-old, who opened the innings in the first T20I, went on to bat at the number four and three positions in the next two games against West Indies but he failed to be of any significance with his scores reading at 0,14 and 5.
However, Soumya did finally return among the runs when he smashed a fifty in the first T20 against the Ireland A team and followed up by playing another crucial 47-run knock in the series deciding encounter.
The stylish left-hander informed yesterday that he rectified the mistakes
he made against West Indies - he was dismissed in the last two matches while tiying to dear the ropes straight over the bowlers head on both occasions.
'I tried to play with my own style as I play attacking cricket and I worked on my batting since reaching Ireland. If you noticed, I was dismissed in a pretty similar fashion in the last two T2OIs in West Indies, when I tried to
play over the bowlers head in the straight region and was caught at either long on or long off. I was even dismissed in the same manner in one game in Ireland.
“I realised that there was a technical problem, my body weight tends to shift back while playing that shot and I worked on it. I tried to play hard,
expecting a fast delivery, but it was a slower delivery and so my timing was not proper enough to clear the ropes in West Indies. It is one of my main run scoring shots, both against pacers and spinners, and I got results previously. I scored a lot of runs through that shot in Ireland," Soumya told The Daily Star after reaching Bangladesh.
Soumya does not seem worried about his place in the national team for the upcoming Asia Cup though as the confident southpaw also informed that he is only focused on improving his batting while the rest is up to the selectors.
Meanwhile, wicketkeeper-batsman Mohammad Mithun also had success in Ireland as the right-hander struck three fifties on the tour. His blistering 39-ball 80-run knock helped the visitors chase down the challenging 184-run target in the final T20 of the series with six wickets to spare.
"I think it's important for a batsman to understand the situation and bat accordingly. You have to attack when the situation demands. I have different roles when I play in the Dhaka Premier League and it was different in Ireland but I try to play keeping the demands of the situation in mind," Mithun told reporters yesterday.