Most of the members of the Bangladesh national team returned home on Friday on two separate flights after a disappointing campaign in the Twenty20 World Cup in UAE, reports BSS.
A flight carrying some of the members of Bangladesh reached the country in the afternoon while the rest of the members was scheduled to depart at 6:30 pm (Bangladesh Standard Time) from Dubai.
But captain Mahmudullah Riyad, senior member Mushfiqur Rahim, Liton Das and Taskin Ahmed chose to stay in Dubai to spend a holiday with their family. They will return to the country later, said Bangladesh Cricket Board (BCB) senior media manager Rabeed Imam.
Bangladesh's coaching staff, including head coach Russell Domingo, will enjoy a break and will arrive in Bangladesh on November 11.
The Tigers, however, experienced a worst World Cup in their history. Coming with a big dream following three series victory including a maiden series victory over Australia and New Zealand at home, Bangladesh started their T20 World Cup journey with a big shock when Scotland beat them by six runs. This defeat left their aspiration to move to the Super 12 in jeopardy but luckily, they got two inexperienced teams Oman and Papua New Guinea (PNG) in the qualifying round. They beat Oman by 26 runs and PNG by 84 runs to secure Super 12 phase.
Since their shock victory against West Indies in the inaugural edition of the T20 World Cup in 2007, Bangladesh had never won in the main round of the tournament. This time expectation was high on them. But they failed miserably and lost all of the matches in the Super 12 stage including being all out below 100 for consecutive matches against South Africa and Australia.
They first tasted a five-wicket defeat to Sri Lanka and later were crushed by England by eight wickets. Against West Indies, they came agonizingly close to win but at the end, experienced a heartbreaking three-run defeat. In the last two matches against South Africa and Australia, they even couldn't put up any fight. They were bowled out for 84 against South Africa to taste six-wicket defeat and dismissed for 73, their second lowest T20 total against Australia to taste eight-wicket defeat.
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