Summary Bangladesh were 94 for three after 25 overs
LONDON (Dunya News) – In the crucial encounter of Group A, it’s the World Champion Australia that will take on Bangladesh side at Kennington Oval, London.
Bangladeshi skipper won the toss and opt to bat first in a day and night match being played on rather a good batting track.
Squads
Bangladesh
Tamim Iqbal, Soumya Sarkar, Imrul Kayes, Shakib Al Hasan, Mushfiqur Rahim, Sabbir Rahman, Mehedi Hasan Miraz, Mahmudullah, Mashrafe Mortaza (capt), Mustafizur Rahman, Rubel Hossain
Australia
AJ Finch, DA Warner, SPD Smith (capt), MC Henriques, GJ Maxwell, TM Head, MS Wade, MA Starc, PJ Cummins, A Zampa, JR Hazlewood
Match Updates
Bangladesh Innings
Overs 25, Score 94/3
Bangladeshi openers started the proceedings rather slow as only six runs were scored in the first three overs.
The first boundary of the day came in the fouth over as Tamim Iqbal hammered one away for of the bowling of Hazlewood for four more.
In the next over, Tamim took the charge once again as he hit two boundaries in Starc’s over.
Bangladesh lost their first wicket as Soumya Sarkar was caught behind by Wade of the bowling of Hazlewood after scoring just three runs.
Bangladesh were 24 for the loss of one wicket after six overs.
Imrul Kayes and Tamim carried on the innings the innings as Bangladesh were 29 for the loss of one wicket after seven overs.
The run rate was getting slower with the passage of every single over as Bangladeshi batsmen were finding it hard to score boundaries.
To worsen things more, Imrul Kayes also departed as he was caught by Finch of the bowling of Cummins in the eleventh over.
Bangladesh were 39 for the loss of two wickets after 11 overs.
The run rate was going down miserably slow as the Australian batsmen were not providing any sort of width to the Bangladeshi batsmen.
Bangladesh were 50 for the loss of two wickets after 15 overs.
Mushfiqur Rahim too was not been able to make an impression in the match as he too departed after scoring 9 runs and was trapped leg before wicket by Henriques.
Shakib came to join Tamim as Bangladesh need to do domething extraordinary in order to put a decent total on the board.
Tamim too was not been able to take the risk as his team wanted him to stay at the wicket.
Bangladesh were 65 for 3 after 20 overs as Shakib and Tamim were on the crease.
It was in 23rd over when Tamim decided to cut loose as he picket Henriques for punishment.
A huge six followed by two boundaries resulted in fetching 16 runs of 23rd over.
Not that much damage was done in the next two overs.
Bangladesh were 94 for three after 25 overs.
