Scores of 89 and 62, in the first innings of both the Tests in Colombo, can hardly be explained but chairman of selection committee Faruque Ahmed thinks Bangladesh will find their way out in time.

"It's shocking apparently," admitted Faruque while talking to The Daily Star yesterday.

"We are not playing well at all but I think it is happening because the batsmen are trying to change approach. One thing has been evident that they are trying to occupy the crease and not throwing their wickets by playing too many shots like the past," the former national captain opined.

"Sometimes in transition periods, the players become confused. Although this may sound like an excuse, but I am certain it is one of the reasons behind the failure.

"We also have to consider that we are playing against a quality team who are almost invincible on home soil.

"It's one of the worst phases but I have seen the players concentrating on getting better. They are training harder. Just a knock of 60 or 70 in the middle would have made these scorecards look better."

When asked whether the batsmen suffered due to lack of technique, Faruque defended the boys saying that these players have come this far by scoring regularly.

"Nothing wrong with the basics but during lean patches, a player tends to show temporary lack of technique. When one is not getting runs at a particular time, his head tends to move, the feet go across; these are finer details where they miss," the chief selector explained.

"I would say I am unsatisfied with the Test performance during my tenure as a selector but not ready to give up hope yet."

He was also not ready to accept the thought that Bangladesh have too young a Test team.

"In this Test, we have one debutant and just another player with little experience. (Shahriar) Nafees is young but he was our best performer in the last season. Otherwise, the core of our batting is made up of seasoned players. When you have five experienced batsmen, you can easily draft in one youngster. The same goes for the bowling too."