ICC Champions Trophy 2017: Starc seals Bangladesh's batting debacle
Tamim's innings of 94 was also not enough to help Bangladesh putting a decent total on board
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 44.3, Score 182 (all out)
Australian bowling was so amazing in this match as the line and length at which they were bowling was making it so it was hard for the Bangladeshi batsmen to score runs at a good strike rate.
Meanwhile the batting side was also losing wickets constantly to add further to their miseries.
Tamim was turning out to be the only hope for Bangladesh in such dismay as he opted to cut loose once more as he thumped TM Head for two consecutive towering sixes in the thirtieth over however the excitement for Bangladesh turned out to be temporary as the dangerous Shakib was trapped leg before wicket in the same over after he scored 29 runs.
Bangladesh were 124 for the loss of four wickets after 30 overs.
Tamim on the other hand was saving one end as Bangladesh were not only losing wickets frequently but also the required run rate was just slightly above 4.
Tamim was choosy in picking balls to send them for the boundary line.
Sabbir Rahman also departed after playing a short innings of 8 runs.
Bangladesh were 141 for the loss of five wickets after 35 overs.
Mahmudullah’s introduction to the crease was rather in aggressive one as he picked Maxwell’s delivery to send it out of the park for a maximum.
However, the aggression was put to an end by Zampa who cleaned him up in the very next over.
Bangladesh were 171 for the loss of six wickets in 40 overs.
It takes one brilliant over of Starc that could cause a complete debacle of batting line and so was the cause at The Oval.
In the 43rd over, Starc removed Tamim who was caught by Hazlewood after scoring 95 runs.
On the third and fourth ball of this over, Starc removed Mashrafe Mortaza and Rubel Hussain of two consecutive deliveries as they were completely undone by Starc’s pace.
Starc also claimed the last wicket in his next over as he clean bowled Mehedi Hasan Miraz.
Bangladesh were all out for 182 in 44.3 overs.
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.
