Ireland comfortably overhauled Bangladesh's 137-8 by six wickets with 10 balls to spare to end the beaten side's brief participation in the tournament.
Siddons pulled no punches when it came to who he held responsible for the defeat.
"We didn't make anywhere near enough runs," said Siddons. "The par score there [Trent Bridge] against any attack was 170 on that flat wicket. Fast outfield, short boundary one side and there were just some stupid mental errors by our batsmen. It was ridiculous batting."
The Australian was happy to name names as he reeled off a list of experienced batsmen who he felt should have learnt by their previous mistakes by now, including captain Mohammad Ashraful who sat alongside him at the press conference.
"Right from the top, the opening batsmen had to be aggressive but we knew they [Ireland] bowled good slower balls early in the innings, and it just went right the way through - the run out of Tamim Iqbal, who has got out like that about four times on this tour, Shakib Al Hasan has got out that way about five times on this tour, same area, same shot [holing out on the long-on/midwicket boundary].
"They are just mental errors because their skill levels are as good as anyone. I'm borderline disappointed and angry - I'm not sure which way to treat them when I speak to them in a minute. There's nothing we can do if they keep making mental errors like that and the same mistakes over and over. We train it, we talk about it, we do everything we possibly can. Even Ash [Mohammad Ashraful] made the same mistake when he hit the bloke to the same fielder as he'd done [Kevin O'Brien at slip] in the over before, went out and did it again and said catch me this time . It just goes down the list, five or six, maybe seven, batsmen got out with ridiculous shots."
Bangladesh thus head off to lick their wounds and with plenty to think about ahead of the next ICC World Twenty20 in the West Indies next year.
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