Cricket Update: 3rd ODI- http://www.senore.com/Cricket/Bangladesh-c747 dominates Black Caps batting line-up
Bangladeshi bowlers give a tough time to the visiting New Zealand batsmen in the 3rd ODI of the five match One-day series. The constant rain that struck the Shere Bangla National Stadium, Mirpur, allowed the acting Bengali skipper Shakib Al Hasan
to chose to field as the pitch would give some assistance to the Bangladeshi fast bowlers in the early overs.
To his and the team’s advantage, fast bowler Shafiul Islam was able make the visiting opener Brendon McCullum nick one outside the off-stump.
Besides, the home advantage the Bengali have over the Black Caps, they lead the series by 1-0, as the hosts won the first match, and the second match was abandoned due to rain. However, one might have thought that the team would suffer without the inclusion
of captain and fast bowler http://www.senore.com/Cricket/Mashrafe-Mortaza-c1917 and fast bowler Nazmul Hossain the two sustained injuries in the 1st ODI.
Nevertheless, both the injured fast men were replaced by the same playing role cricketers such as Shafiul Islam and http://www.senore.com/Cricket/Rubel-Hossain-c2378, as by the 35th over both had pocketed a wicket each.
Young left-arm slow orthodox Suhrawadi Shuvo makes his career best as he takes a handful of 3 wickets, in his 10 over spell. The youngster maintained an outstanding economy rate of 1.40. Not to forget, that he initiated the bowling pressure by restricting
the visiting Black Caps for 14 runs from his 9 over spell.
Before the match, all eyes were on the weather forecast, as the second ODI was abandoned without a ball being bowled. Surely the visiting Kiwis must have been dreading that the weather conditions would improve, otherwise they would have entered the 4th
ODI with a Bengali lead of 1-0.
Today’s, playing eleven from the two teams include the following:
Bangladesh: 1 Imrul Kayes, 2 http://www.senore.com/Cricket/Naeem-Islam-c2053, 9 Abdur Razzak, 10 Shafiul Islam, 11 Suhrawadi Shuvo.
New Zealand: 1 Jesse Ryder, 2 Brendon McCullum, 3 Ross http://www.senore.com/Cricket/Mills-c76321, 10 Tim Southee, 11 Andy McKay.
Wicket-keeper batsman http://www.senore.com/Cricket/Bradley-John-Watling-c48320, young talented Jesse Ryder, and Ross Taylor were the only three mentionable batting contributions from the visitors batting line-up. However, Ross Taylor went on with the bat till the last breathing moments of
Black Caps batting innings.
It was more of a team effort from the Bengali bowling attack as all the six bowlers used chipped in with a wicket or two at least. There bowling figures are Shafiul Islam 1 for 22, Rubel Hossain 1 for 39, Abdur Razzak 1 for 47, Shakib Al Hasan 2 for 45,
Suhrawadi Shuvo 3 for 14 and http://www.senore.com/Cricket/Mahmudullah-c1877 2 for 1.5 repectively.
The hosts have restricted the visitors for a total of 173, as they were bowled out in the 42.5 over. Now it is up to the Bengali batting line-up as they have to chase the given target under the bowling friendly conditions. Moreover, in likes of http://www.senore.com/Cricket/New-Zealand-c754
bowlers such as Daniel Vettori, Tim Southee and Andy McKay, it will be not that easier task to negate this small ODI total.
It is up to the Bengali batting power, as they will walk on the field to chase the 173 total at a modest economy rate of 4.03 runs per over.
The series has been dominated by the home team so far, but the given condition as the visiting Black Caps played on would surely have some effect on the home-team batsmen as well. The visitors would be looking forward for early break through, on the contrary,
the host team will look to watch out the early over and then build on their innings according to the total of 173.
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