Bangladesh's misery continues in the Asia Cup. The Tigers lost by 21 runs in the Super Four match against Sri Lanka yesterday. Opener Naim Sheikh's batting has been questioned once again in this match.

Naim scored 21 runs off 46 balls in the 258-run chase. He played a lot of dot balls and put the team under pressure in the beginning. Not only in this match, Naim's entire career has seen a tendency to play a lot of dot balls. However, despite all this, captain Shakib Al Hasan still does not want to exclude Naim from the team. He is supporting this young opener.

In the press conference after the match, Shakib said, “Actually we want to be consistent. We do not want to exclude anyone by playing 2 matches. He started in 4 games. He failed to score when he should have made his innings bigger. He handled the new ball well. Not saying that he has done a lot. He couldn't do it when he needed to. This is disappointing.”

Shakib said in response to the question whether the experiments are being conducted in the opening, “It would be wrong to say that the tests are being conducted. It was Naim's 4th match. He played all 4 matches. Not many experiments. After the first match, there were many injury problems, and Litton (Das) came. All together we had to think about something else.”