Bangladesh moving towards
Anamul Haque might be ruing his missed century
but captain Mashrafe Bin Mortaza should be the happiest man after the way the
Tigers secured the series against Zimbabwe with two matches in hand at the
Sher-e-Bangla National Stadium in Mirpur last night in front of a near-capacity
crowd.
The home side were near perfect in all departments on their way
to a massive 124-run victory in the third ODI, barring the individual milestone
from someone at the top of the order, as Anamul and Tamim Iqbal carried on
their good form to set it up for the bowlers to finish off the job.
There was a lot of similarity with the second match except the
late surge which improved a lot to increase the total. Like the second game, a
hundred-plus opening partnership was again broken by a freakish run-out of
Tamim while Mashrafe and Arafat Sunny were the stars with the ball.
Zimbabwe only won the toss to send their opponents in first, but
everything else was won by the hosts who recorded their biggest win over their
southern African rivals in terms of runs.
The Tigers kept improving with the series' progression and made
their opponents look poorer on way to taking the 3-0 winning lead as the
visitors were bowled out for 173 with 10.1 overs still to be bowled in their
chase of a mammoth 298 runs.
When Bangladesh piled up a total close to three hundred runs,
the result was already written on the wall for the Zimbabweans. The fans
started to leave the ground when Brendan Taylor was trapped in front by
left-arm spinner Shakib Al Hasan, his only scalp of the match after a quick
33-ball 40, with the scoreboard reading 82 for five.
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