Mushfiqur Rahim’s six leads Bangladesh to victory – Cricket News Update
October 11, 2011, will surely be the day for Bangladesh’s Skipper, http://www.senore.com/Cricket/Mushfiqur-Rahim-c2045, to remember – a well constructed death ball hit against West Indies, which marked the Captain’s first win for his side, as a newly found leader of the team.
During his post match comments, Rahim revealed that the hit was a well constructed shot as he was aiming towards the shorter part of the Dhaka venue, but said that he was confident that a mis-hit could have even travelled for a six.
However the proud Skipper, who was leading http://www.senore.com/Cricket/Shakib-Al-Hasan-c89559, also added that he was glad that everything went according to plan.
“Everyone wants the first match [of their stint in charge] to be memorable, and I couldn’t have asked for more. We won the toss, it was the plan to bowl first because dew might have been a factor and our bowling is spin-reliant. We saved 10-12 runs in the
field and made a concerted effort to restrict them as much as possible,” said Rahim.
Hoping to make a good use of the field conditions at the Shere Bangla National Stadium, Mirpur, in Dhaka, Captain Rahim won the toss and opted to field first for the only Twenty20 (T20) match from West Indies’ tour to the region.
Delivering a strong bowling performance during the Caribbean side’s innings, Bangladesh managed to restrict the tourists to pile up a competitive chase worth 133 runs, after losing 8 wickets.
As for the hosts’ response, the Asian Tigers took on the target with a worthy start, but trotted on to lose 4 swift wickets towards the close of the innings’ first half, after finally wicket-keeper batsman Rahim took charge of the chase through some aggressive
batting, in association with http://www.senore.com/Cricket/Mohammad-Ashraful-c76740.
With Rahim retaining his ground strong till the final over of the match, Bangladesh had already lost three additional wickets, are required six runs from last six balls – a task which was successfully executed by Rahim’s imposing out of the part on the second
last ball of the match, leading the team to a worthy 3-wickets triumph.
“In the last over, I had the confidence that if I got the ball in my zone then I could hit it for a four or six. Fortunately, that is what happened,” commented Rahim.
Having marked an opening win on their home-series, Bangladesh is still due to face the http://www.senore.com/Cricket/West-Indies-c760 tourists in the upcoming 3-match One Day International (ODI) series followed by 2 Tests.
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