Ottis Gibson: Bangladesh’s pace bowling coach Ottis Gibson believes England’s very positive approach offers bowlers an opportunity and has urged him not to panic.
“Catches get dropped. In every cricket match, one or two catches go down. Obviously, when the catches sort of result in a player part that results in a game, it’s highlighted more,” he said.
“We do a lot of catches in practice. We do a lot of various catching drills. Ultimately, when the guys are out in the middle under pressure, then mistakes like catches going down happen. Is it a concern? I wouldn’t say it’s a concern because we practice it every day. But the fact is obvious when it gets dropped when catches go down, then at the end of the game, that’s the thing that gets highlighted.
Ottis Gibson cites England’s opening game against the West Indies as an example. In this game, you lost 4 wickets in a turbocharged approach to 55 chases.
”He’s (Liton) one of our best fielders, first of all. The fact that a couple of catches went down doesn’t diminish from what he contributes to the team. Of course, anybody can drop a catch. Like I said before, it’s highlighted because those catches, you can argue, contributed to the result of the game. But he’s one of our key players, and he has been for a while. The reality is that any other fielder in that position could have dropped those catches as well.
”So what we do is we get around him (Liton) we support him. We remind him of his quality and remind him that he’s a key player for us, and we support that player.”
”England’s mindset is always to be positive. On the day you’re positive, but if the conditions don’t allow for your positivity, sometimes you give wickets away,” Gibson said.
“As I said, they were chasing 55 against the West Indies, and they lost four wickets for those 55 runs. On the day we play well, we play to our potential, then they will give us opportunities to win the game or to have a say in the game. If we take those opportunities, the result could very well go in our favor.
Their stakes were scrutinized as Bangladesh lost the opening game of Super 12 to Sri Lanka and two drop catches from Litondas bit them hard.
”I’ve spoken to our bowlers and our batsmen, England bowlers are looking to take wickets all the time, and England batters are looking to score runs all the time and put bowlers under pressure. The message is not to panic, understand that you are going to get hit. You might bowl a good ball and get hit because that’s their mentality, but they also give you opportunities to take wickets.
”So we must be calm. We must try and execute our skills plans. And when those opportunities come, we must take those opportunities of course, but we must — the one thing we must remain as a bowling group is calm and very consider in how we approach every ball that we bowl,” Gibson said.
“Catches get dropped. In every cricket match, one or two catches go down. Obviously, when the catches sort of result in a player part that results in a game, it’s highlighting more,” he said.
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Ottis Gibson supported Das and called him one of the team’s top outfielders. Said that the dropped catch is part of the game.
“We do a lot of catches in practice. We do a lot of various catching drills. Ultimately, when the guys are out in the middle under pressure, then mistakes like catches going down happen. Is it a concern? I wouldn’t say it’s a concern because we practice it every day. But the fact is obvious when it gets dropping when catches go down, then at the end of the game, that’s the thing that gets highlighting.
One who had already been attacks for a slender run on the bat receiving new criticism for two mistakes.
”He’s (Liton) one of our best fielders, first of all. The fact that a couple of catches went down doesn’t diminish from what he contributes to the team. Of course, anybody can drop a catch. Like I said before, it’s highlighted because those catches, you can argue, contributed to the result of the game. But he’s one of our key players, and he has been for a while. The reality is that any other fielder in that position could have dropped those catches as well.
”So what we do is we get around him (Liton) we support him. We remind him of his quality and remind him that he’s a key player for us, and we support that player.”
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