“We really wanted to finish well here. It’s been a fantastic tour in terms of what we’ve been up against, a very strong home team. I thought we were on today,” Mott stated in Dhaka.
“The lead-in was good, everyone was up and about. But for whatever reason, we just couldn’t get clean hands with the ball, either in the air or on the ground,” he stated.
“That one hurts today,” he stated. “Obviously we’ve come over here to do well.
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“To end the best way we did lately will go away a little bit of a bitter style in our mouths however it will have to additionally act as an eye-opener for us on the place we wish to reinforce,” Mott said.
The ODI World Cup in India later this year is likely to see England’s white ball unit have to perform on similarly low-bounce wickets as in Bangladesh if they are to retain their title.
Having lost the preceding ODI series 2-1, a clinical Bangladesh won the first T20 by six wickets, the second by four wickets and the last by 16 runs in front of a raucous home crowd.
It was Bangladesh’s first series defeat of England in any format, and captain Shakib Al Hasan said his side “did not dream” that such a result was possible.
“We did not put ourselves underneath power earlier than the collection. We did not speak about profitable video games however simply sought after to play excellent cricket,” Shakib said.
“I do not like to match between collection. Winning each fit is necessary however the best way we received this collection, we’ve not performed like this earlier than.”
He added that Bangladesh started playing well during the T20 World Cup last November in Australia and haven’t looked back since.
“We had been unlucky no longer to succeed in the semifinals of the T20 World Cup. We had been one win clear of that success.
“We had a lot of doubts before the tournament, but the belief that we can compete with bigger teams started from the World Cup,” he stated.