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No excuses! We didn't play well as a team: Mominul Haque

B'desh's young skipper points to poor show in pink ball Test instead of crying over injured players

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B'desh's top-scorer Mushfiqur Rahim en route his knock of 74 against India in Kolkata on Sunday. Pic/PTI

B'desh's top-scorer Mushfiqur Rahim en route his knock of 74 against India in Kolkata on Sunday. Pic/PTI

Kolkata: It's been a difficult 10 days for Bangladesh since the start of the Test series in Indore. Beaten by an innings inside three days in the first game, they barely pushed the second Test, at the hallowed Eden Gardens, to a third day as they succumbed to another crushing defeat, India becoming the first side in Test history to register four innings victories on the bounce.

It was hard not to feel for a young Bangladesh side, minus the suspended Shakib Al Hasan and veteran opener Tamim Iqbal, away on paternity leave. Especially, but not only, in the pink-ball Test, they looked completely out of their depth, leaving with bruised egos and battered bodies after being given a severe working over by Virat Kohli's pace troika.

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