The new captain's new assignment started with a defeated match. But it's not completely useless. Captain Nurul Hasan Sohan was brilliant personally. But in the match, Bangladesh lost by seventeen runs. The host Zimbabwe won the toss and elected to bat first at the sports ground in Harare, Zimbabwe. There were three pacers in the Tiger squad that day
Nurul Hasan Sohan made his debut as the 8th T20 captain of the Tigers in this match. Pacer Mustafizur Rahman got off to a good start by bowling out Regis Chakavba. Then Madhevere and Williams stood up well against the Tiger bowlers. Sean Williams bounced back with a 19-ball 33 run innings, dismissed by Mustafiz.
However, with the aggressive batting of Sikandar Raza and Madhevere in the last part, The Tiger bowlers disoriented Sikandar Raza remained unbeaten with 68 runs off 26 balls and Madhevere retired hurt and scored 67 runs from 46 balls. Tiger bowler Mustafiz took 2 wickets for 50 runs and Mosaddek Hossain took 1 wicket. The Target for Bangladesh is 206 runs.
Raza hits a massive fifty from 23 balls
Opener Munim Shahriar departed early to face this huge target. However, Litton and Anamul put up a lot of resistance in the powerplay. They scored 60 runs in the first 6 overs. Then Litton Kumar departed with a surprising run out of William's bowl with 32 runs and Bijoy went for 26 runs with 27 balls.
Afif and Mosaddek lost themselves on this day. But Nazmul Hossain Shanto kept one end and continued to bat. Shanto scored 37 runs from 25 balls. Towards the end captain, Nurul Hasan Sohan made a comeback with vital innings. But Sohan's 42 runs of 26 balls could not give victory. In the end, The Tigers had to leave the field with a loss of seventeen runs
Sikandar Raza won the Man of The Match award. Today in Bangladesh time 5:00 pm will start the 2nd T20. Bangladesh needs to win this match to back in this series. However, they will lost this series with one match in hand
(Jisan Mahmod Srabon) Bissoy Sports
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