2024-07-30 18:10:47
Fifty in two innings with the bat. Show magic with the ball in a match that tilts one way and the other. Mahmudul Hasan Joy, the red ball captain of the Bangladesh High-Performance team, has led the team from the front on Australian soil.
Bangladesh HP got a great victory against Pakistan Shaheens on Australian soil based on his performance. The two-match series ended in a 1-1 draw.
Chasing a target of 296 runs set by HP on the last day of the second four-day match, Pakistan Shaheens were bowled out for 290 runs. Joy took 5 wickets with only 21 runs in 13 overs. Earlier, he scored fifty in both innings with the bat.
But because of the bowling, Joy considers this match to be the best of his career, ‘This is my first 5 wickets in first class. I would say it was the best bowling of my career and we won in one of the best matches of my career.’
Jai batted in the opening with the red ball. Always tries to sharpen his bowling skills at the nets. What’s the magic mantra with the ball?, ‘My job as a batter… I always try to perform wherever I play. After a long time I played in a competitive match. The wicket here was very good for batting, I tried to exploit that.’
‘And I always try to bowl in the nets. Now the opportunity has come to bowl in the match, I tried to do what I do in the nets according to my own plan’- added Joy.
Bangladesh was on the backfoot after losing the first match. However, the young cricketers took the second and last match as a life-and-death battle. The red and green team had the last laugh with a dramatic victory in the final moments of a great fight.
The HP skipper said, ‘We took it as a life-and-death match. We lost the first match, it was our comeback match. The win tied the series. We are very happy to win and go home with the series level.’
The four-day match is over. Now the ODI will start. After that T20. Joy, who was not in the white ball team, wished her teammates well before returning home.