Noting Bangladesh national cricket team is going through a transition process, its skipper Shakib Al Hasan has expressed firm confidence that team’s bad time will be over soon and they will play well again like the past.

“We believe that Bangladesh is a good team … such a team sometimes goes through the transition process and now we’re in that (transition) process,” he told state-owned media agency BSS.

“However, so many days will not be required to overcome the bad time and we’ll start performing well like in the past,” he said.

Shakib, also UNICEF Goodwill Ambassador, made these remarks while addressing a function organised by the UNICEF to confer Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina an award.

The United Nations Children’s Fund (UNICEF) conferred the award titled ‘Champion of Skill Development for Youth’ on the premier for Bangladesh’s great success in youth skill development.

UNICEF Executive Director Henrietta Fore handed over the award to the prime minister at Labouisse Hall of UNICEF House in the UN Plaza at New York on Thursday (Sept 26) evening.

Shakib’s comments came after the prime minister requested him to say something about Bangladesh’s cricket.