Zimbabwe need 217
23 January, 2018
Zimbabwe captain Graeme Cremer, right, bagged four wickets to derail the Bangladesh batting. AFP
Zimbabwe captain Graeme Cremer, right, bagged four wickets to derail the Bangladesh batting. AFPBowlers Graeme Cremer and Kyle Jarvis helped Zimbabwe restrict an in-form Bangladesh to 216 for 9 in their tri-nation series match on Tuesday.
The hosts were 147 for 2 in the 35th over, but captain Cremer removed one batsman in each of his next three overs to contain the hosts' run surge. And help from Jarvis ensured the Tigers cannot build on the platform set by Tamim Iqbal and Shakib Al Hasan.
Choosing to bat first, Bangladesh did not have the best of the starts, Jarvis sending opener Anamul Haque, who could manage only one, to the pavillion in the third over.
Tamim and Shakib then made 106 in the second wicket to put the hosts in a good position. Shakib departed after making 51 off 80 balls while in-form Tamim hit his third consecutive fifty. Tamim's 76 came in 105 balls and the innings took him past Sri Lankan legend Sanath Jayasuriya in the chart of scoring the highest number of runs on a certain ground.
Till date, Jayasuriya's 2514 scored in Colombo was the highest, but Tamim has now set a new record, his 2549 at the Sher-e-Bangla National Stadium sending him to the top.
However, he failed to turn a fifty into a hundred for the third game running and soon the collapse started.
It was number nine batsman Sunzamul Islam's 19 and number ten batsman Mustafizur Rahman's 18 that helped the hosts go beyond 200.
Cremer ended the day with four wickets to his name while Jarvis had three.
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