2024-05-05 20:59:33
After great bowling with the ball, calculated batting with the bat. The red-green Bangladesh started the five-match T20I series with a big win after being interrupted by rain.
On Friday (May 03, 2024) in Chittagong, Zimbabwe lost the toss and went into bat to stop at 124 runs. Bangladesh has the last laugh with 28 balls and 8 wickets in hand.
Tanjeed Hasan Tamim has seen a fifty in the debut match. Tanjeed became the second Bangladeshi batsman to do such a feat after Junaid Siddiqui’s debut fifty 17 years ago. He left the field unbeaten with 67 runs off 47 balls. The victory was won by a great four.
In the beginning, his partner Liton Das returned for 1 run. Captain Nazmul Hossain Shanto joined Tanjid this time. When the two were giving the message to proceed with ease, the rain came. Play resumed after a rain interruption at the end of the third over. This time after 7.2 overs it rained again.
After the second rain break, rain law calculations begin. However, Bangladesh was ahead. Shanta got out while hitting a six on his return to the field. 21 runs off 24 balls from his bat.
Tanjeed picked up his first fifty off 36 balls with Tawheed Hriday in tow. Both did not give any more wickets to the Zimbabwean bowlers. 69 runs from 36 balls came from this pair. Tawheed was unbeaten on 33 runs. Muzarabani-Jongwe took one wicket each for Zimbabwe.
At the beginning of the innings, Mahedi Hasan got the first success by bowling Craig Irvine in the second ball of the second over. If Irvin returns, the run rate should increase. Joylord Gumby continued to take Bennett with him. Both made a partnership of 28 runs. Bennett hit Shariful three four in a row. Saifuddin sent back Gambi, who scored 17 runs off 14 balls, in his first over. After his dismissal, the procession of wickets began. Bennett returned after being run out for 16 runs. The team lost five wickets between 36 runs and 38 runs.
Taskin raised the possibility of a hat-trick. Shane Williams and Ryan Burle were returned for no runs. Madante-Masakadza resisted after Luc Jongwe’s return to victim Saifuddin.
Madante-Masakadja’s 75-run partnership for the eighth wicket can make this run possible for the visiting team. After losing 7 wickets for 41 runs, the two made a pair. The maximum 43 runs came from Madante’s bat. He scored this run by hitting 6 fours off 39 balls. Masakadza was run out on the last ball of the innings. He scored 34 runs off 38 balls. He has two sixes and fours in his innings. Apart from this, no batter could score more than twenty runs.
Taskin-Saifuddin took maximum 3 wickets for Bangladesh. Both bowled miserably. Taskin scored 14 runs and Saifuddin scored 15 runs. Mahedi Hasan took 2 wickets. Shariful-Rishad Hossain were wicketless.