导出博客文章Central Coast Mariners pair Nick Montgomery and Jacques Faty are set to make a
timely return from injury for Sundays A-League clash against an in-form Brisbane
Roar.Skipper Montgomery (hamstring) has been sidelined for the Mariners past two
outings - heavy losses to Wellington Phoenix (3-0) and Western Sydney (4-1) -
while central defender Faty (knee) hasnt played in over a month.However, they
are expected to line up against the Roar at Central Coast Stadium, while
midfielder Mickael Tavares is due back from Europe next week and is said to be
progressing well with treatment from a France-based specialist in a bid to avoid
knee surgery.All three have been missed by the inexperienced Mariners, who will
need all the help they can get against a Brisbane side that tore Adelaide United
to shreds with a 4-0 thumping on Sunday, extending their undefeated run to five
matches.We hope to have one or two players back from injury as well, that will
help us, striker Roy ODonovan said.Were a little bit light in a lot of ways. We
need our most experienced players on the pitch for good reason.Hopefully this
week weve got a reaction and the strongest team on the pitch thats available.The
Mariners had 62 per cent of possession against the Phoenix in Wellington on
Saturday night, but had only three shots on target and were overwhelmed by a
side clearly keen to respond after the resignation of coach Ernie Merrick last
week.It leaves them in ninth position on the ladder, three points ahead of
bottom-placed Adelaide and level with Wellington and Newcastle.It obviously
makes it a little bit more difficult as a team that theres not a lot of games
out there (on the pitch), not a lot of experience of being 1-0 down after two
minutes to draw upon where you go next, ODonovan said.But you learn. Hopefully a
lot of harsh lessons were learned over in Hamilton.It was a pretty flat
performance from us in an attacking sense. The beauty of sport is weve got next
week now to put it right.
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that is. Sabbir Rahman is at a delicate point in his career. He has been
embroiled in off-field trouble, and has to pay an unprecedentedly high fine for
what the BCB has described as a serious disciplinary breach. The amount of money
involved would make anyones head spin, let alone that of one as young as
Sabbir.The next few months could define which way he heads in international
cricket. He needs to repair his reputation after this transgression, and the
best way would be to quickly revert to doing what he knows best: batting with a
free mind.The predominantly aggressive mindset with which Sabbir approaches
every kind of cricket, and which has its roots in his origins as a T20
specialist, has become representative of a shift in the mentality of Bangladesh
batsmen at large.When Indian satellite-television channels started to become
available in Bangladesh in the early 1990s, the current lot of cricketers in the
country picked up most of what they know by watching matches telecast from
around the world. But though the likes of Sanath Jayasuriya, Virender Sehwag,
and now David Warner, have been watched keenly, very few Bangladesh batsmen have
been able to bat aggressively like those players in a sustained fashion.Mohammad
Ashraful and Aftab Ahmed were the first to bat at higher speeds against quality
bowling but both lacked consistency. Tamim Iqbal started off as a bit of a
dasher but modified his game to suit the wider needs of international cricket.
And Shakib Al Hasans batting ability seems to have shrunk due to his
over-exposure to T20.Sabbirs approach has provided a more localised blueprint of
the Sehwag and Warner template. He differs from some of the best Bangladeshi
batsmen in that he had his aggressive mindset before he made it to international
cricket.****With no chairs in sight, we plonk ourselves down on the ground
behind where the Rajshahi Kings players have placed their bags. Space is at a
premium at the small Academy ground in Mirpur, with three teams training on the
day, one on which no BPL games are due to be played. Sabbir speaks with the
distinct Rajshahi cadence and gives off a smile every once in a while.At the
crease, he doesnt move as the bowler approaches, and only reacts according to
the length. He brings his bat down in a flash to play the square-cut. When
pulling the ball, he unwinds fast from his stance into a fiery shot, not always
lifting his front leg for balance. His driving in the arc from in front of point
to midwicket is also full of simplicity. There is no big backlift or flourish.
See ball, hit ball.He only recently made his maiden T20 century, a 61-ball 122
with nine sixes. Rajshahi couldnt beat Barisal Bulls in the match but the
innings was a standout for its sheer quality of clean hitting. It followed an
assured Test debut against England, in which Sabbir nearly won Bangladesh the
match with a fighting half-century. Earlier in the year, he had produced a
54-ball 80 that gave Bangladesh their first T20 win over Sri Lanka.He says that
his fondness for big hitting developed at an early age, as far back as 1996,
when a 37-ball century in Nairobi took the world by storm.Since I followed
Shahid Afridi in those days, I was attracted to big hitting, Sabbir said. Afridi
had made that century, which made me think that even I should start hitting like
him. But the problem was, I couldnt hit the ball too far. My friends didnt give
me batting in tennis-ball cricket. The madness started within: how can I become
a big-hitter?He found the solution quickly enough. I used to hang the ball in a
sock and practise the big hitting at home. In school once, I ended up hitting
six sixes. My confidence started building from that point.Growing up in
cricket-mad Rajshahi, 250km northwest of Dhaka, Sabbir followed the well-trodden
path of cricketers in the region, joining a cricket academy. He started at the
Rashid Bari camp, from where he went to the Al-Rashid Cricket Academy, and then
to the North Bengal Cricket Academy, a well-known finishing school that had a
team in the Dhaka Second Division Cricket League.His coach at the time, Jamilur
Rahman Saad, ferried him between cricket grounds during the Dhaka Premier League
season as a substitute fielder. Teams that saw him repeatedly would complain to
the match referee, but he mostly got away with it.When he was still studying at
the Rajshahi Bholanath BB Hindu Academy, he played in the Dhaka Premier League
for the first time, for Young Pegasus, a club that has been home to many
Rajshahi players, among them Farhad Reza and Junaid Siddique.Sabbirs progress
wasnt easy. He faced opposition at home, especially considering his older
brother had joined the police force, which took him away from the family for
long periods. Cricket in Bangladesh was big in the mid-2000s but it still
sounded too adventurous a career path for a boy from a middle-class family that
missed their oldest son.Sabbir was such an energetic kid that his coaches
couldnt stop him from keeping wicket and bowling pace and offspin, which he did
for months before settling on legspin and batting. He rose through the age-group
ranks quickly and in 2010 gave a first glimpse of his hitting ability in that
years Under-19 World Cup, batting at a 100-plus strike rate in six innings. A
few months later his unbeaten 18-ball 33 helped Bangladesh win their first ever
gold medal in the Asian Games, an innings that he called a career
breakthrouggh.ddddddddddddWhen, three years later, Sabbir was dropped after
three T20s for Bangladesh, it led to introspection and a realisation of what he
specifically needed to do to be a consistent international cricketer. Mashrafe
bhai told me to face a lot of balls in the nets as long as I am playing cricket,
he says. So in the last three years I have tried to face at least 500 to 700
balls per day, however I can.This boost in his training volume paid dividends
for Sabbir, who became an ODI and T20 regular from the end of 2014, and against
England last October he was an assured presence in his debut Test
series.****Sabbir says that the base of his confidence comes from T20. This is
an attitude new to Bangladesh cricket, where hitting out like he does is
considered sacrilege. You can hit a six but you cannot hit the next ball for one
as well. If you defend it instead, your club officials and coach will appreciate
your maturity; if you do it in front of a packed stadium, there will be long
applause.The way Sabbir sees it, each player has a favourite format and his
happens to be T20. It helps that he has found a bridge between his T20 outlook
and how he should bat in Tests.The biggest thing for a player is his mentality
and how it builds his confidence. It is very important to believe in yourself. I
always have extra confidence when I am playing T20s because I like it.I have
only recently found some runs in first-class cricket because I changed my
mentality when batting in this format. I think a batsman should play more shots
in Tests; there are simply more opportunities to score with the field settings.
A batsman can think of defending or leaving the ball, but I think a batsman
should have the same mentality in all three formats.I got out of the two Tests
with confidence. I played my way. I left the ball, and I also played the
shots.He says that it is important for him to back his methods, even if it
raises questions regularly. Even my friends sometimes ask me why I got out for a
duck. Why did you go for an early big hit? they ask me sometimes.But if I am
confident, I can get over the bad innings and have the confidence to score a
hundred in the next game. A batsman who works really hard has that inner
confidence and knows his game - he will always be in the right frame of mind, he
said.The Sabbir way has influenced younger players. He has showed in the last
two years that it is not just cool to play the way he does but useful too. Even
older batsmen, like Shahriar Nafees and Mominul Haque, say that Sabbirs approach
has encouraged them to bat differently in T20. While they havent exactly tried
to imitate him, both those players have looked more proactive in this years BPL.
Having realised a while ago that they needed to do well in T20 to sustain
themselves in the game at large, it is only now that they have figured out what
will work. There are things that I have picked up from Sabbir, who is an amazing
hitter of the ball. But I cannot just start hitting sixes from the first or
second ball like him, said Nafees. He is super-fit.I think I have more
understanding of the format, and it is crucial to bat according to the
situation.I havent had to make too many changes to my technique, Mominul, who
had a strike rate of 118.13 in nine innings as Rajshahis opener, said. It is all
in the mentality, the belief. I think it has a lot to do with changing the mood
of my batting. I have been playing Tests for the last two years, so it was
always tough to readjust to T20s.I will take this confidence into international
cricket.Nafees made some fundamental changes, which included his bat weight. He
has batted in the BPL with one that weighed 2.10 pounds, while he previous
played with a 2.7-pound bat. He also worked on his bat-swing during the off
season so as to be able to hit sixes with more ease. Nafees has had success in
the BPL before - he struck his maiden century in the 2013 tournament - but the
freedom with which he has batted this time was plain to see. The ten sixes he
has hit in this years tournament have more than doubled his overall T20 sixes
tally.The change of approach involved putting effort into becoming leaner, and
spending more hours in the gym than before. At the start of my career, all the
focus was on Tests and ODIs but now T20 gives you a lot of exposure, Nafees
said. I think the difference this year has been my fitness. I feel a lot lighter
on my feet, so my agility has improved and I feel more strength overall. This
power game is now the standard in international cricket.****Sabbir has only just
started out in international cricket and hasnt yet had the inevitable first bad
season. Chinks in his make-up will probably be exposed soon enough by the teams
he comes up against, but he knows that if he remains confident in being able to
carry out his method day in day out, he will be a consistent international
batsman.He also wont want a pile-up of off-field controversies early in his
career, and will do well to understand the responsibilities that come with being
an international cricketer and, consequently, role model. If he lets incidents
like the recent disciplinary breach dent his impact as a batsman, Sabbir stands
in danger of losing the most beautiful thing about his game - the mental clarity
with which he bats. ' ' '
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