Bangladesh fights back against Australia in Mirpur
Bangladesh has scored 152 runs at the end of 40 overs and recovered from the early loss when they compiled 88 runs, as they lost their fifth wicket in the second One Day International (ODI) against http://www.senore.com/Cricket/Australia-c746.
Earlier, http://www.senore.com/Cricket/Tamim-Iqbal-c2640 and Imrul Kayes were dismissed after scoring five runs each, as Raqibul Hasan was bowled out by John Hastings on naught, once he faced
the third ball, with the total on just 28 runs.
http://www.senore.com/Cricket/Hasan-c61990, were unbeaten on 40 and 8 respectively and the Australians have a tight grip on the match at the end of 20th over.
Mitchell Johnson claimed the wickets of both openers.
The fourth wicket partnership contributed 37 runs before Shakib was bowled by Steven Smith after the ball found the gap between bat and pad. Shakib’s wicket fell when the total was on 65 runs, and he only managed to score nine runs.
The wicket keeper batsman, http://www.senore.com/Cricket/Mushfiqur-Rahim-c2045, joined in with Shahriar, who was doing well at the other end. They were going along nicely but once the scoreboard displayed 88 runs, Shahriar chipped in with a ball straight back to Smith, who held the easy catch
nicely.
He played a solid innings of 56 runs in 73 balls assisted with 6 fours as the wicket fell in 26.6 overs.
Mahmudullah, who played a winning innings against England in the ICC World Cup 2011 and brought them a famous victory, entered the arena to support Mushfiqur and both started crafting their innings.
Both played sensible cricket and accumulated a fifty runs partnership on the third ball of the 34th over when Mahmudullah took a single off Johnson. They have recovered their position by taking the score to 152 at the end of the 40th
over. Mushfiqur was unbeaten on 35 runs as http://www.senore.com/Cricket/Mahmudullah-c1877 was still on the crease with 33 runs.
Australian captain, Michael http://www.senore.com/Cricket/Clarke-c51120, used six bowlers in the process to dislodge the partnership without any success.
Johnson and Smith have taken two wickets each as Hastings has taken one wicket as well.
Bangladesh has to score a minimum of 250 runs in their allotted 50 overs to challenge the strong Australian batting line up.
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