Bangladesh opener Mahmudul Hasan Joy said on Thursday that he was disappointed to miss out on his maiden Test double hundred against Ireland in the series opener in Sylhet.

Resuming on 338 for 1, Bangladesh lost both overnight batters early. Joy, on 169 at stumps, added only two runs before falling to Barry McCarthy, who also removed Mominul Haque for 82.

"Yes, definitely a little disappointed, because it would have been my first double hundred if I could have carried on. So I'd say I'm a bit disappointed that I couldn't carry it through till the end," Joy told reporters after the second day's play.

"Overall, I'm happy because I've returned to the team after quite some time and I was able to play a big innings for the team. I'm very happy, but as I said earlier, it would have been better if it was a double hundred, so a little disappointed on that front," he said.

"I was playing my natural game. Actually, that ball if I had covered it a bit better, maybe I wouldn't have been out," he added.

Joy said he has made a few technical tweaks that are paying off.

"No, not much has changed technically. I used to have a big shuffle across and now it's much shorter - that's the only change I've made," he said. "I didn't really work on anything major here. I'd say I worked more in the Tigers Camp. I got a lot of help from the local coaches there.

"Ashraful bhai (Bangladesh's new batting coach) just came for this series and I hadn't worked much with him before. He just gave a couple of points. Salahuddin sir was there before and he knows me. So no big changes were made. They just told me to play my natural game," he said.

Joy added that recent domestic form helped him regain confidence.

"Actually, the NCL T20 hundred boosted me a lot, because I performed very well there, and then I also played well in the NCL four-day match. So I'm trying to do the same things here - carrying the innings. I won't do anything different," he said.

Meanwhile, Ireland left-arm spinner Matthew Humphreys said Bangladesh's batters took the game away despite being pushed back early.