Cricket Highlights, 24 Mar: Bangladesh vs Ireland (3rd ODI)

Bangladesh vs Ireland (3rd ODI)

In the first two matches, the visiting Ireland was cornered by Bangladesh’s run hill. Batting first in the third game, the situation of the Irish was even worse. The pace attack of Bangladesh led them to get all-out for only 101 runs and the visitors had to lose by a big margin of 10 wickets.

Along with that, Bangladesh made history by picking up a 10-wicket win in the ODI format for the first time. Through this victory, the hosts won the three-match ODI series by 2-0. The second match was abandoned due to rain.

Bangladesh’s previous biggest win by wickets in ODIs was by 9 wickets. The Tigers have defeated the opponent five times by 9 wickets. But there was no 10-wicket win for them.

 To get a win In the third and final ODI of the series that was held in Sylhet, the target for Bangladesh was only 102 runs. Tamim Iqbal and Liton Das converged well to cross this mark in just 13.1 overs.

Captain Tamim Iqbal played an unbeaten innings of 41 runs off 41 balls, with 5 fours and 2 sixes. On the other hand, Liton Das picked up his ninth career fifty. He remained unbeaten scoring 50 runs off 38 balls, he hit 10 boundaries.

Before this, Ireland was bowled out for 101 runs in 28.1 overs on the rampage of the devastating pace trio of Bangladesh. Hasan Mahmud scalped the highest number of 5 wickets with 32 runs. Besides, Taskin Ahmed took 3 wickets and Ebadot Hossain took 2 wickets.

After bowling first in the first two matches, visiting Ireland won the toss and elected to bat first in this match. But at Sylhet International Cricket Stadium, the Irish fell under the cannon of Hasan Mahmud, the young pacer of Bangladesh. They lost 4 wickets for the team’s 26 runs.

Hasan Mahmud sent back three top-order batsmen. Pacer Taskin Ahmed also started to pick up wickets alongside him. He sent off captain Andrew Balbirnie (6).

The two Irish openers wanted a cautious start after coming out to bat. But in the fifth over of the innings by Hasan Mahmud, Stephen Dohani got caught behind the wicket by finding an edge of the bat. He scored 8 runs playing 21 balls.  The team’s run was only 12.

Then in the 9th over of the innings another opener, Paul Stirling was traped with an lbw by Hasan Mahmud (7). The team’s score was 22 then. On the 4th ball of the same over, Hasan trapped Irish top-order batsman Harry Tector with another lbw. Three batters returned to the dressing room within 22 runs.

In the meantime, one catches off Taskin and another off Hasan Mahmud were dropped. But in the 10th over of the innings, Balbirnie got an edge of the bat and gave the ball away at the first slip. There, Najmul Hossain took the catch of Balbirnie.

After losing 4 wickets for 26 runs, Curtis Campher and Lorcan Tucker put up some resistance. They made a pair of 42 runs off 57 balls. After that, the visitors were knocked out of the match due to Ebadot’s double hunt.

Ebadot was hit for three boundaries two overs ago. He turned around from there. In the 19th over of the innings, set batsman Lorcan (28 off 31) was lbw on a brilliant delivery from Ebadot. He also bowled George Dockrell (0) in the next ball before he was set on the wicket.

Then Taskin also picked up two wickets in three balls in one over. Andy McBrine (1) was caught by Nasum Ahmed at midwicket and Mark Adair (0) was bowled.

Hasan Mahmood was selected as player of the match after taking five wickets. Even though he played two matches in this series, this pacer got a chance to bowl in one match.

On the other hand, wicketkeeper-batsman Mushfiqur Rahim was selected as the player of the series after scoring the fastest century (100 runs from 60 balls) for Bangladesh in the second match and scoring 44 runs from 26 balls in the first match.

The three-match T20I series between these two teams will start on 27th March (Monday) at Zahur Ahmed Chowdhury Stadium in Chattogram.

Bangladesh vs Ireland Scoreboard

Ireland – 101/10 (28.1)

Bangladesh – 102/0 (13.1)

Result – Bangladesh won by 10 wickets

Player of the match – Hasan Mahmud

Player of the series – Mushfiqur Rahim

Bangladesh vs Ireland Playing Xis