Ebadot backs more greentops in Bangladesh

It is not common to see Bangladesh fielding with four slips and a gully in a home Test match - and yet that's exactly what Bangladesh captain Litton Das did on Day 2 of the Test against Afghanistan, when his pace unit was uncharacteristically backed by a home greentop.

The pacers did not disappoint him either, sharing six wickets between them with Ebadot Hossain being the wrecker-in-chief, claiming 4-47 to help them bowl out the visitors for 146, right after a batting collapse by the hosts in the second morning, where they lost five wickets for 20 runs.

Ebadot Hossain expects these kind of home surfaces prepared in the future, and is excited about the country's fast bowling prospects, given suitable pitches.

"We lost wickets, but we scored a lot of runs. The weather was a bit gloomy, and we thought at the time that we would go in and get their wickets as quickly as possible. This was the plan," said Ebadot.

He added that seeing Mushfiqur Rahim getting out against a Nijat Masood bouncer further motivated him.

"Certainly, the wicket gave showed us that the pitch is good for pace bowling. As the weather was good, there was bounce and the wicket really helped me," he said. "There was a bit more bounce today and yes when I bowled from that side the wind helped me."

"If you do well, you get the confidence of winning matches. As we are doing well, we can hope (for green wickets)," he said.

"The wicket was helpful and our three fast bowlers bowled well, but the match is yet to be over and we just bowled in one innings. Let's see if we can continue to do well in the second innings too. We all three pacers were confident that we'll bring a good start for the team," he said.

"All three of us tried to use the conditions as well as we can and the rest is up to the management. I think if we can continue like this, definitely they can rely on us," he said.

"Our pacers improvement graph has been excellent over the last three years. I am not telling that we grew up as excellent bowling group but if we can keep this up, we will be a dominating group in world cricket."

Ebadot insisted that he is keen to learn the art of setting up batters, knowing that it's the only way to claim wickets regularly in the longer version format where grabbing cheap wickets is almost difficult.

"I am trying to learn the art of setting up batters slowly. We got bounce and there was pace in the wicket, so it was helpful for us. What you saw that I got the wickets with bouncers but it not that I was bowling a barrage of bouncers. Firstly I set up the batters, bowling in front of them, swung it and then gave the bouncer to surprise them. The plan worked for me," he said.

"Earlier I bowled inswing, outswing and gave bouncers two or three times in an over. It's important to set up the batters in Test cricket," he added.