**Official**Zimbabwe in Bangladesh Thread

[shaka]

Motm will go to Taibu IMO, batted well

 

[twctopcat]

Well done Tatenda Taibu, finally a well deserved century,

 

[bryce]

great effort by the bangladesh openers to see it through to stumps

 

[marc71178]

One of the lowest scoring full days in years!

 

[crickmate]

Ashraful is the youngest player of the world to have a test century.

Now Enamul broke the bowling record. Yesterday he became the youngest player of the world to take 7 wickets in an innings. Previously Waker Younis had the record.

He broke another record by becoming the youngest player ever to take more than 10 wickets in a match. This time he broke the record of Wasim Akram.

 

[BlackCap_Fan]

Wow. Three rather large records broken by the Bangladesh young'ns!

 

[Galactic_Soap]

Very nice indeed, this is going to come down to the wire I'd say. I'd love to see Bangladesh wrap up the series. As for Zimbabwe, its great to see Taibu get his ton, what a talent.

 

[thierry henry]

Bangladesh 135/1 off 85 overs.

Unless something dramatic happens it seems they are playing for a draw. Considering they didn't even need 3 an over I think this is an extremely disappointing effort. I hope Bashar and/or Ashraful come out and smash it a bit.

 

[BlackCap_Fan]

99.4 Hondo to Nafis Iqbal, two runs, on leg stump, turns it to backward
square leg and gets his 1st test match century!
Nafis Iqbal 100 in 309 balls, 14x4

165/3 now, over 4 an over needed. Going for the draw I think, going for their first series win.

 

[Jono]

I do wish they went for the win, but I understand their incredible desire to achieve their first series win. Understandable, though if they went for the chase, and got there, it would have been amazing.

 

[marc71178]

Can you blame them though?

Either way, to get the draw they'll have batted for over a day and a half - no mean feat.

 

[FaaipDeOiad]

Regardless of the result, this has been a great performance by Nafis Iqbal. As I type this he's been batting for 115 overs and faced over 350 deliveries without being dismissed. The bowling attack is nothing special of course, but doing that on a fourth and fifth day pitch with pressure on is a fantastic effort against anyone.

 

[Jono]

Can you blame them though?

No. It's totally understandable as I said. All I'm saying is it would have been amazing had they got there.

 

[Slow Love™]

Bangladesh 135/1 off 85 overs.

Unless something dramatic happens it seems they are playing for a draw. Considering they didn't even need 3 an over I think this is an extremely disappointing effort. I hope Bashar and/or Ashraful come out and smash it a bit.

I don't think it's disappointing at all. By all means, they should just make sure they take the series. Bearing in mind some of the slow scoring in this match so far, had they taken a stab at the total and screwed it up it would have been an absolute tragedy. They can chase a tricky total another day.

Go Bangers - don't lose!!!! Five wickets in hand, and 28 overs to go....

 

[SJS]

I don't think it's disappointing at all. By all means, they should just make sure they take the series. Bearing in mind some of the slow scoring in this match so far, had they taken a stab at the total and screwed it up it would have been an absolute tragedy. They can chase a tricky total another day.

Go Bangers - don't lose!!!! Five wickets in hand, and 28 overs to go....

Lots of teams, India included played many such drab innings to achieve their rare days in the sun in the early years. Sri Lanka were doing it till very recently.

Cant blame Bangla Desh.

This series has shown one thing though. It maybe best for Zimbabwe and Bangla Desh to play each other more often. I am sure this will do more good for their cricket then playing out of their league.

Maybe Kenya could join them in a three some and ICC should draw up a special calendar for them.

 

[bryce]

match drawn - bangladesh win the series

 

[crickmate]

Match drawn. Nice last 5 sessions of play by Bangladeshis. 380 was a tough target to achieve in 4th and 5th day. But they mode it look closer. Just 80 runs short with 5 wickets remaining.(also 5 overs were lost due to bad light). If Bangladesh could win this would have been 5th biggest target chase in the history of world.

Congrates for the series win. Go Bangladesh.

Zimbabwe 298 & 286
Bangladesh 211 & 285/5 (142.0 ov) Match Drawn

 

[Slow Love™]

Lots of teams, India included played many such drab innings to achieve their rare days in the sun in the early years. Sri Lanka were doing it till very recently.

Cant blame Bangla Desh.

This series has shown one thing though. It maybe best for Zimbabwe and Bangla Desh to play each other more often. I am sure this will do more good for their cricket then playing out of their league.

Maybe Kenya could join them in a three some and ICC should draw up a special calendar for them.

Or the ICC could develop a tiered system.

They did it! Great going by Bangladesh. IMO, an unambiguously good day for cricket, and not just because a minnow team got their first test series victory either.

 

[bryce]

javed omer 43 off 258 balls at a strikerate below 17, which equates to scoring at one an over for 43 overs - that's a perfect innings when playing for a draw

 

[Dizzy #4]

Good on ya bangers! Pitty you wanted to be on the "safe path"