Allrounder Mosaddek Hossain said Bangladesh were satisfied with their bowling performance while unsuccessfully trying to defend their low total of 127 in their Asia Cup opener against Afghanistan.
In the second innings, Afghanistan lost an early wicket before going on to complete a convincing seven-wicket win with nine balls to spare with Ibrahim Zadran and Najibullah Zadran staying unbeaten.
Tigers now have to beat Lankans in a do-or-die game on Thursday with very little time for a turnaround.
Mosaddek, who top-scored with an unbeaten 48 off 31, said that the make-up of Bangladesh's spin attack was such that they were limited in their approach, and needed the fast bowlers to step up on a Sharjah pitch that tended to keep low, reports espncricinfo.com.
"Afghanistan has one of the best spin attacks in the world," he said.
He said, "When you take that into account, we don't have a big spinner. We don't have a wristspinner. We are all orthodox spinners. We didn't lose this game for not picking enough spinners. It was difficult to hit the ball off a hard length. It wasn't wrong to play with three seamers. I think it was good enough for us to push them as we defended a total like 127."
"We were short by 10 or 15 runs," he said. "It would have been a different scenario if we made 140. It is always difficult to set up a game when you lose two or three wickets in the powerplay, added Mosaddek.
He also said that there was a Bangladeshi vibe in Sharjah, particularly with a huge expatriate crowd turning up to make it a full house. But the pitch, despite the low bounce at times, wasn't really like their favourite venue, the Shere Bangla National Stadium in Dhaka.
"This wicket is totally different from Mirpur," Mosaddek said.
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