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Bangladesh need 206 to win 1st T20 against Zimbabwe
Wesley Madhevere and Sikandar Raza Zimbabwe helped Zimbabwe put up a score of 205-3 in the first of the three-match T20I series against Bangladesh Saturday.
Bangladesh previously won a single T20I while chasing 200 or more runs.
Raza remained unbeaten on 65 off 26 balls with seven fours and four sixes while Madhevere posted 67 off 46.
Zimbabwe won the toss and chose to bat first. Bangladesh bowlers were all over the place, and the fielding also did not help.
The hosts lost their first wicket with only 15 runs on the board and second when they were batting at 43.
In the third wicket stand, Madhevere and Sean Williams added 56 runs off just 37 balls. After Williams fell for 33 off 19 balls, Raza joined Madhevere and added 91 runs off 43 balls.
Left-arm seamer Mustafizur Rahman bagged two wickets but conceded 50 runs. Taskin Ahmed failed to grab any wicket but conceded 42 runs. Also, Shoriful Islam gave away 45 runs but could not get any wicket.
Wicketkeeper-batter Nurul Hasan Sohan is leading Bangladesh in this series. He replaced Mahmudullah Riyad after the Tigers lost their last T20I series against the West Indies 2-0.
This is only the second time that Bangladesh are playing a T20I match without Mushfiqur Rahim, Shakib Al Hasan, Riyad and Tamim Iqbal.
Tamim recently retired from T20s. Shakib is not in the team due to personal reasons; Mushfiqur and Riyad were rested for this series.
Bangladesh T20I team leaves Dhaka for Zimbabwe
Bangladesh T20I team is set to leave Dhaka tonight for Zimbabwe where they will play a three-match series against the hosts.
Earlier on Monday night, a five-member team left Dhaka for Zimbabwe. And the members of the national team who will only play ODIs in try his series will join the team later.
Bangladesh will play the T20I series under the leadership of Nurul Hasan Sohan who recently took over the role from Mahmudullah Riyad.
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Bangladesh will miss the service of senior players in this series. Tamim Iqbal has recently retired from T20Is while Mushfiqur Rahim and Mahmudullah Riyad have been rested from this format, and Shakib Al Hasan will not travel to Zimbabwe for personal reasons. So a young team will take on Zimbabwe in their home.
The Bangladesh team is scheduled to start the tour of Zimbabwe on July 27. The first group of cricketers will fly for Zimbabwe on July 27 morning from Dhaka. The second group will travel from Dhaka on July 30.
Along with the three-match T20I series, Bangladesh will also play a three-match ODI series against the hosts. All the matches will be played at the Harare Sports Club Ground.
Fixture revealed for matches between Zimbabwe and Bangladesh
Zimbabwe Cricket revealed the fixture of the three-match ODI and three-match T20I series between Zimbabwe and Bangladesh.
The Bangladesh cricket team will travel to Zimbabwe in the last week of July. The board will announce the teams for this tour soon.
All the matches of this series will be played at the Harare Sports Club, Harare.
The series will begin with the first T20I on July 30 while the last two T20Is will take on July 31 and August 2. The first ODI will be played on August 5 while the other two ODIs will take place on August 7 and 10.
Read: Bangladesh vs Zimbabwe 2021: ODI Series Preview
The ODI series of this tour is not part of the ICC World Cup Super League.
Bangladesh has recently played a two-match Test, three-match T20I and three-match ODI series against the West Indies. Bangladesh whitewashed the hosts in the ODI series before losing to them in both the Test and T20I series.
32 die in Zimbabwean bus accident
At least 32 people died Thursday night when a bus carrying members of the Zion Christian Church was involved in an accident in Chipinge, southeastern Zimbabwe.
State broadcaster ZBC reported Friday that about 40 others were seriously injured in the accident which happened near the Jopa Market at around 11 p.m.
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This marks a bad beginning to the Easter weekend.
U-19 World Cup: Bangladesh beat Zimbabwe by 155 runs in lone warm up match
Bangladesh earned a convincing 155- run victory over Zimbabwe under D/L method in a rain affected lone warm up match at Warner Park in St Kitts on Tuesday ahead of the ICC Under-19 World Cup Cricket.
The 16-team ICC Under-19 World Cup Cricket’2022 will begin in the West Indies on January 14.
Bangladesh, which was placed in four-team Group A with England, Canada and UAE, will start their World Cup campaign taking on England in their first match on January 16 at Warner Park in St Kitts.
Favored by coin in the day’s warm up match, Bangladesh opened the innings first and piled up a comfortable 277 runs for all in 49.5 overs. It featured an 81-run 4th wicket stand by Aich Mollah and Mohammad Fahim.
Number five batter Aich Mollah contributed the match highest run-a-ball 82 hitting five fours and three sixes while wicket keeper Mohammad Fahim scored 38-ball 33 runs with four hits to the boundaries.
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Besides, opener Ariful Islam made 52-ball 40 runs with three fours and one six, lower order Ripon Mondal quickfired 26-ball 39 runs hitting four fours and a six while captain Rakibul Hasan scored 36 runs off 45 balls with three fours and a six, were the main scorers for Bangladesh .
Connor Mitchell was the most successful among the Zimbabwean bowler grabbing four wickets 30 runs while Mathew Schonken took two wickets for 48 runs.
Chasing a revised target of 256 runs, Zimbabwe were forced to fold their innings at 110 runs in 35.2 over to suffer a huge defeat.
Steven Saul (39), Tashinga Makoni (22), Brian Bennett (12), and Connor Mitchell (10) were the notable scorers for Zimbabwe.
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Naimur Rahman captured three wickets for 18 runs while Ariful Islam and Abdullah Al Mamun took two wickts each conceding 6 and 15 run respectively.
Omicron-affected women cricketers test negative
Two Bangladeshi women cricketers, who suffered COVID Omicron variant, are well now and tested negative, the chief physician of BCB confirmed on Monday.
Bangladesh women cricket team has recently toured Zimbabwe to take part in the ICC Women's World Cup Qualifiers. The event was called off midway due to the surge of the Omicron variant of COVID.
Bangladesh women team has successfully qualified for the next 50-over World Cup— their first in the history.
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After coming back to Dhaka, they were isolated in a hotel in the capital. On December 6, the health department confirmed that two women cricketers are COVID positive. Five days later, on December 11, the health department said both are affected by Omicron.
Returning negative in the latest COVID test, both the cricketers are free to get out of the isolation centre of a Dhaka hospital and go home.
Another member of the women team is positive with the Delta variant of COVID and yet to test negative. According to BCB sources, the person is doing well and will undergo a COVID test this week. A negative result will allow the person to leave the isolation centre as well.
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Women’s ODI: Bangladesh whitewash Zimbabwe 3-0
Touring Bangladesh Women’s Cricket team whitewashed hosts Zimbabwean Women’s team 3-0 in the three-match ODI series, outplaying them by seven wickets with 190 balls remaining in the 3rd and last match at the Queen’s Sports Club ground in Bulawayo, Zimbabwe on Monday. Bangladesh made a flying start in the three-match ODI series beating Zimbabwe by eight wickets in the first match on Wednesday and clinched the series crushing them by nine wickets in the 2nd match at the same venue last Saturday.
Read:Women’s ODI: Bangladesh win 3-match ODI series beating Zimbabwe by 9 wkt In the day’s last and final ODI, Zimbabwean Women’s opted to bat first after winning the toss and they were bundled out cheaply for 72 runs in 27.2 overs with opener Sharne Mayers being the lone batter reaching the double digit of 39 runs, off 61 balls, featuring four boundaries. Bangladeshi left arm orthodox bowler Nahida Akter made the major damage in Zimbabwean innings grabbing five wickets for 21 with four maidens in her 10-over spell. Rumana Ahmed and Fariha Trisna took two wickets each conceding 7 and 17 runs respectively. Chasing a poor target of 73 runs in 50 overs, Bangladesh Women’s opened the innings and easily reached their target scoring 74 runs for the loss of three wickets in just 12 overs to earn another convincing victory in the series. Opener Murshida Khatun contributed 39 runs off 48 balls hitting five boundaries, captain Nigar Sultana made 27-ball 12 runs with a boundary while another opener Nuzhat Tasnia scored 24-ball 10 runs. Later, Nahida Akhter of Bangladesh was adjudged player of the match for her five-wicket haul (5/21). Nahida also named as the player of the series jointly for taking 11 wickets alongside Murshida Khatun, who scored 97 runs in the series. Earlier, a 16-member Bangladesh women’s cricket team reached the Zimbabwean capital Harare on November 5 to participate in the ICC Women's World Cup Qualifiers’2021 in Zimbabwe. Bangladesh Women’s team played a three-match ODI series there against hosts Zimbabwe in Bulawayo as part of their preparation for the ICC Women’s World Cup Qualifiers 2021, also scheduled for Zimbabwe from November 21 to December 5 next.
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Women’s ODI: Bangladesh make flying start beating Zimbabwe by 8 wkts
Touring Bangladesh Women’s Cricket team made a flying start in the three-match ODI series beating hosts Zimbabwe team by eight wickets in the first match at the Queen’s Sports Club ground in Bulawayo on Wednesday.
Bangladesh women’s team playing a three-match ODI series against Zimbabwe in Bulawayo as part of their preparation for the ICC Women’s World Cup Qualifiers 2021, also scheduled for Zimbabwe from November 21 to December 5 next.
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Nahida Akhter, Salma Khatun and Jahanara Alam grabbed three wickets each conceding 3, 6 and 18 runs respectively.
In reply, Bangladesh women’s easily reached their target scoring the match-winner 49 runs for 2 wickets in 10.4 overs.
After he dismissal of two openers—Murshida Khatun (7) and Sharmin Akhter (8) for 21 runs in 4.4 overs, one donw Fargana Haque and Rumana Ahmed guided the carried team towards victory contributing 28 runs in the 3rd wicket stand.
Farganq scored not out 11 runs off 21 balls with a boundary while Rumana made unbeaten 20-ball 16 runs featuring three fours.
In the remaining two matches of ODI series, Bangladesh will play hosts Zimbabwe on November 13 and 15 at the Queen’s Sports Club in Bulawayo. Three top teams from 10-team qualifying rounds, will earn the right to play in the eight-team final round along with former champions Australia, England, South Africa, India and hosts New Zealand from March 4 to April 3’ 2022.
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Earlier, a 16-member Bangladesh squad left Dhaka for the Zimbabwean capital Harare last Friday to participate in the ICC Women's World Cup Qualifier’2021 in Zimbabwe.
Bangladesh SQUAD : Nigar Sultana Joty (Captain), Murshida Khatun, Nuzhat Tasnia, Fargana Hoque Pinky, Rumana Ahmed, Ritu Moni, Nahida Akter, Salma Khatun, Jahanara Alam, Lata Mondol, Fahima Khatun, Fariha Islam Trisna, Sharmin Akter Supta, Sobhana Mostary, Khadiza-Tul Kubra and Shanjida Akther Maghla
Zimbabwe post highest T20I total vs Bangladesh
Riding on the outstanding batting display by Wessley Madhevere, Regis Chakabva and Ryan Burl, Zimbabwe posted 193 for five in 20 overs in the third and final T20I against Bangladesh on Sunday at the Harare Sports Club.
It is now the highest T20 total by Zimbabwe against Bangladesh. Their previous highest was 187 for six in 2016 what was notched up in Khulna.
In Sunday’s game, Zimbabwe captain Sikandar Raza won the toss and opted to bat first.
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Openers Tadiwanashe Marumani and Madhevere added 63 runs in just 5.6 overs. In the fourth over of the innings, Madhevere struck five fours off Taskin Ahmed. Madhevere took only 13 balls to score his first 30 runs.
Before falling out by Mohammad Saifuddin, Marumani scored 27 off 20 balls. Madhevere was doing some damage at the other end of the wicket.
Regis Chakabva was more destructive than Madhevere. He struck 48 off 22 balls with six sixes. Soumya Sarkar managed a breakthrough for the Tigers removing Chakabva and Sikandar Raza in the same over.
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But that was not enough to wrap Zimbabwe in something less than 150 or 160 runs.
Ryan Burl did the final damage scoring 31 off 15 balls with three fours and two sixes.
It was a nightmarish outing for the Bangladesh bowlers. Saifuddin conceding 50 runs in four overs and bagged only a wicket. Nasum Ahmed, who got a chance in the XI for the first time in this series, conceded 37 runs.
Soumya was the best bowler for Bangladesh taking two wickets conceding 19 runs in three overs.
Bangladesh won the first match of the three-match series, but the hosts made a good comeback in the second. So the third match became the final of the series.
Tigers crush Zimbabwe in first T20 match
Bangladesh sealed a comfortable win against Zimbabwe in the first T20 international of the three-match series in capital Harare on Thursday.
Batting first, Zimbabwe posted a challenging total of 152 all out in 19 overs. In response, Soumya Sarkar and Mohammad Naim hit a fifty each to guide the Tigers to an eight-wicket victory over the hosts.
Soumya and Naim added 102 runs, which is now the highest first-wicket stand in T20Is for the Tigers. Along the way, the openers surpassed Tamim Iqbal and Liton Das' record of 92 runs -- which the duo scored against the same adversary in March 2020.
Also read: Tamim, Shohan guide Tigers to ODI series sweep against Zimbabwe
Soumya scored 50 off 45 balls with four fours and two sixes, while Naim remained unbeaten on 63 off 51 balls with six fours.
Mahmudullah Riyad, the T20I captain, batted at number three and scored 15 off 12 balls with one four. Nurul Hasan Sohan came to bat next and remained unbeaten on 16 off eight balls with a four and a six.
Bangladesh scored 153 with seven balls to spare and won the game to take a 1-0 lead in the series.
For Zimbabwe, Regis Chakabva continued to perform well. He scored 43 off 22 balls -- the highest for the hosts. In the ODI series as well, he had scored two fifties.
Dion Myers also had a good start but he fell prey to Shoriful Islam.
For Bangladesh, Mustafizur Rahman bagged three wickets with two in the 19th over, while Mohammad Saifuddin and Shoriul scalped two wickets each.
Also read: Chakabva, Raza, Burl propel Zimbabwe to 298 in 3rd ODI
The second and third T20I of this series will take place on July 23 and 25, respectively, at the same venue.