Tuesday 6 March 2007

Tigers tame Kiwis. Bangladesh dominate the warm up

Match Report

The Kiwis, on the back of a 3-0 home thrashing of Australia, lost four top batsmen for scores of 4, 0, 11 and 3. Mashrafe Mortaza took 4-44 before Jacob Oram made light of a recently broken finger to hit 88 in a total of 224. Teenager Tamim Iqbal hit 46 off 48 before Mortaza saw his team home with successive sixes off James Franklin. Bangladesh did not even require the last over as they celebrated their first win of any description against New Zealand.

Mashrafe Bin Mortaza, fast becoming an allrounder of worth, blasted a 14-ball 30 including two mighty blows for six off the fourth and fifth deliveries of the penultimate over bowled by left-arm paceman James Franklin as Bangladesh quite sensationally toppled New Zealand's 226 with seven balls to spare in the first World Cup official practice game at the 3Ws Oval in Barbados today (Wednesday).

Mortaza had earlier starred with the new ball as he cut through the Black Caps top order after Stephen Fleming had won the toss and elected to bat. First victim for the Bangladesh fast bowler was opener Lou Vincent who after cracking a four off the first delivery was bowled next ball. Syed Rasel had number three Fleming caugt by slip fielder Abdur Razzak for a duck and then Mortaza got rid of Ross Taylor and Peter Fulton to leave the Cup favourites on 34/4 in the 12th over.

Abdur Razzak then chipped in with the wickets of Scot Styris and Craig McMillan in quick succession before a rearguard from Jacob Oram (88 off 107) and wicketkeeper Brendon McCullum (46 off 54) took their side past 200. Mortaza and Razzak finished with four wickets apiece.

The Bangladesh chase began in the most confident fashion and the openers Tamim Iqbal and Javed Omer took the score to 70 by the 15th over. Both departed in their 40s and Aftab Ahmed was lbw to Daniel vettori for 0. But Shakib Al Hasan, skipper Habibul Bashar, Mohammad Ashraful and Mushfiqur Rahim all made useful contributions before the Mortaza blitz sealed the game in the Tigers' favour. Bangladesh's final practice match is against Scotland on Thursday at the same venue.

Score Card

Bangladesh beat New Zealand by 2 wickets
New Zealand won the toss and decided to bat
224 all out (47.2 overs)
230 for 8 (49.0 overs)

New Zealand Innings
Runs
Balls
4s
6s
L Vincent
b Mashrafe Mortaza
4
3 1 0
S P Fleming c Abdur Razzak b Syed Rasel
0
8 0 0
R L Taylor c Mushfiqur Rahim b Mashrafe Mortaza
11
19 2 0
S B Styris c Mohammad Ashraful b Abdur Razzak
26
49 3 0
P G Fulton lbw b Mashrafe Mortaza
3
18 1 0
J D P Oram c Syed Rasel b Abdur Razzak
88
107 1 0
C D McMillan c and b Abdur Razzak
5
15 0 0
B B McCullum run out
46
54 0 0
D L Vettori c Javed Omar b Abdur Razzak
8
9 0 0
J E C Franklin not out
12
14 0 0
S E Bond
b Mashrafe Mortaza
4
4 0 0
Extras
6nb 3w 8lb 17
Total
all out 224 (47.2 ovs)

Bowler
O
M
R
W
Mashrafe Mortaza 9.2 2 44 4
Syed Rasel 8.0 1 17 1
Abdur Razzak 10.0 1 26 4
Shahadat Hossain 1.0 0 12 0
Saqibul Hasan 10.0 0 49 0
Tapash Baisya 6.0 0 42 0
Rajin Saleh 3.0 0 14 0

Fall of wicket

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Bangladesh Innings
Runs
Balls
4s
6s
Javed Omar
b D L Vettori
45
86 5 0
Tamim Iqbal st B B McCullum b D L Vettori
46
48 6 1
Aftab Ahmed lbw b D L Vettori
0
2 0 0
Saqibul Hasan c B B McCullum b J S Patel
19
38 2 0
Habibul Bashar run out
20
33 1 1
Mohammad Ashraful lbw b J E C Franklin
29
37 2 0
Mushfiqur Rahim c S B Styris b S E Bond
19
24 2 0
Rajin Saleh c L Vincent b J E C Franklin
7
12 0 0
Mashrafe Mortaza not out
30
14 1 3
Abdur Razzak not out
4
8 0 0
Extras
7nb 4w 11
Total
for 8 230 (49.0 ovs)

Bowler
O
M
R
W
J E C Franklin 8.0 0 54 2
S E Bond 9.0 0 59 1
M J Mason 5.0 0 15 0
J S Patel 10.0 0 40 1
D L Vettori 10.0 0 38 3
J D P Oram 5.0 1 14 0
S B Styris 2.0 0 10 0

Fall of wicket
85 Tamim Iqbal
85 Aftab Ahmed
104 Javed Omar
133 Saqibul Hasan
143 Habibul Bashar
176 Mushfiqur Rahim
192 Mohammad Ashraful
199 Rajin Saleh


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