32nd issue

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Saturday, September 9, 2017
DT
Australia Tour
1ST TEST
BANGLADESH 1ST INNINGS R B
Tamim c Warner b Maxwell 71 144
Soumya c Handscomb b Cummins 8 8
Imrul c Wade b Cummins 0 6
Sabbir c Wade b Cummins 0 1
Shakib c Smith b Lyon 84 133
Mushfiq lbw b Agar 18 50
Nasir lbw b Agar 23 61
Miraz c Handscomb b Lyon 18 38
Taijul lbw b Lyon 4 10
Shafiul c Hazlewood b Agar 13 17
Mustafizur not out 0 7
Extras (b 15, lb 3, nb 2, w 1) 21
Total all out (78.5 Overs) 260
Bowling
Hazlewood 15-5-39-0, Cummins 16-1-63-3, Lyon
30-6-79-3, Agar 12.5-2-46-3, Maxwell 5-0-15-1
Fall Of Wickets
1-10, 2-10, 3-10, 4-165, 5-188, 6-198,
7-240, 8-246, 9-246, 10-260
AUSTRALIA 1ST INNINGS R B
Warner lbw b Miraz 8 15
Renshaw c Soumya b Shakib 45 94
Khawaja run out (Soumya) 1 2
Lyon lbw b Shakib 0 5
Smith b Miraz 8 16
Handscomb lbw b Taijul Islam 33 67
Maxwell st Mushfiq b Shakib 23 39
Wade lbw b Miraz 5 9
Agar not out 41 97
Cummins b Shakib 25 90
Hazlewood c Imrul b Shakib 5 15
Extras (b 15, lb 3, w 5) 23
Total all out (74.5 Overs) 217
Bowling
Shafiul 6-0-21-0, Miraz 26-6-62-3, Shakib
25.5-7-68-5, Taijul 8-1-32-1, Mustafizur
8-3-13-0, Nasir 1-0-3-0
Fall Of Wickets
1-9, 2-14, 3-14, 4-33, 5-102, 6-117, 7-124,
8-144, 9-193, 10-217
BANGLADESH 2ND INNINGS R B
Tamim c Wade b Cummins 78 155
Soumya c Khawaja b Agar 15 53
Taijul lbw b Lyon 4 22
Imrul c Warner b Lyon 2 18
Mushfiq run out (Lyon) 41 114
Shakib c Cummins b Lyon 5 11
Sabbir c Handscomb b Lyon 22 36
Nasir c Wade b Agar 0 4
Miraz c Khawaja b Lyon 26 35
Shafiul c Handscomb b Lyon 9 28
Mustafizur not out 0 1
Extras (b 15, lb 3, w 1) 19
Total all out (79.3 Overs) 221
Bowling
Hazlewood 4.1-2-3-0, Cummins 14-3-38-1,
Lyon 34.3-10-82-6, Maxwell 5-0-24-0,
Agar 20.5-2-55-2, Khawaja 1-0-1-0
Fall Of Wickets
1-43, 2-61, 3-67, 4-135, 5-143, 6-186, 7-186,
8-186, 9-214, 10-221
AUSTRALIA 2ND INNINGS R B
Warner lbw b Shakib 112 135
Renshaw lbw b Miraz 5 20
Khawaja c Taijul b Shakib 1 6
Smith c Mushfiq b Shakib 37 99
Handscomb c Soumya b Taijul 15 25
Maxwell b Shakib 14 25
Wade lbw b Shakib 4 13
Agar c & b Taijul 2 13
Cummins not out 33 55
Lyon c Soumya b Miraz 12 24
Hazlewood lbw b Taijul 0 10
Extras (b 7, lb 2) 9
Total all out (70.5 Overs) 244
Bowling
Miraz 19-3-80-2, Nasir 3-2-2-0, Shakib 28-7-
85-5, Taijul 19.5-2-60-3, Mustafizur 1-0-8-0
Fall Of Wickets
1-27, 2-28, 3-158, 4-171, 5-187, 6-192, 7-195,
8-199, 9-228, 10-244
Bangladesh won by 20 runs
MoM: Shakib al Hasan
From body language to fearless
• Minhaz Uddin Khan
Bangladesh’s first Test match series
against Australia in 11 years could
have ended better.
After pulling off a brilliant show
in Dhaka to start the series with a
win, the Tigers were expected to
make things more interesting.
All the pressure was piled up
on the visitor when they moved to
Chittagong for the second and the
final Test of the series.
But expectations remained unfulfilled.
The Tigers were found wanting
for most parts of the Chittagong
Test with both bat and ball.
Australia are popular for their
never-say-die attitude and they
showed the superiority over
Bangladesh in the longest format
winning the game within four
days – and that too convincingly
– by seven wickets to level the
series.
But minus the occurrences in
Chittagong, one will surely see the
brighter side of Bangladesh.
The series saw the Tigers pick
up their maiden Test win against
the giant Aussies.
And along the sidelines of the
team’s achievements, individual
feats shone brightly and at the
same time, the world saw unfamiliar
characteristics from the Bangladesh
cricketers, in terms of body
language and their recent newfound
ability – to get under the opponent’s
skin.
The Tigers went into the series
vocal, with the ambition of winning
it 2-0 if possible and they were
right on the spot in the first game.
The home side dominated
throughout the first Test in Mirpur’s
Sher-e-Bangla National Stadium.
There were occasions when
Bangladesh were pushed to the
wall but wonderful were the moments
when they bounced back to
eventually seal a 20-run victory in
almost three and half days.
The win had rocked the world.
At a time when the global authority
of cricket is gradually losing
its interest towards the longest
form and mulling introducing twotier
cricket, the Bangladesh win
showed a ray of hope to the believers
of Test cricket.
The world was upbeat regarding
the Bangladesh win as it came
within 24 hours of the eight-ranked
West Indies winning against the
third-ranked England, no doubt a
fillip for Test cricket.
For Bangladesh, the series had
started before even the coin was
tossed for the first Test.
The exclusion of batsman Mominul
Haque from his best format
had shaken both the media and the
cricket fanatics of the country.
The national selection panel
was showered with criticism,
forcing the BCB president Nazmul
Hasan to make a stand.
Mominul, who still holds the
best Test average for Bangladesh
with 46 runs per game, was back
in the team replacing youngster
Mosaddek Hossain, who was suffering
from an eye infection.
The left-handed batsman however,
was given a cold welcome.
A core member of the team was
sarcastic and had congratulated Mominul
for “buying the media to find
his way back in the dressing room”.
Top run scorers
Top wicket takers
The incident had offended the
majority in the Bangladesh tent
but circumstances had made them
overlook the incident and go into
the first Test, with chins high, as
Mominul got benched.
With two of the senior men
in the team, Shakib al Hasan and
Tamim Iqbal, playing their 50th
Test, the other playing members
of the side also had the ambition of
making the game special.
But as it happened, it was
rather the Shakib-Tamim duo
that rose to the occasion and
provided the lion’s share of the
Player Mat Inns Runs HS Ave SR 100 50 4s 6s
DA Warner 2 4 251 123 62.75 63.22 2 0 25 1
Tamim Iqbal 2 4 170 78 42.50 45.82 0 2 15 3
Mushfiqur Rahim 2 4 158 68 39.50 36.48 0 1 9 1
PSP Handscomb 2 4 146 82 48.66 58.40 0 1 16 0
SPD Smith 2 4 119 58 29.75 54.58 0 1 15 0
Player Mat Inns Overs Mdns Runs Wkts BBI BBM Econ 5 10
Lyon 2 4 133.5 34 315 22 7/94 13/154 2.35 3 1
Shakib 2 4 90.5 18 270 12 5/68 10/153 2.97 2 1
Miraz 2 3 83.0 15 235 8 3/62 5/142 2.83 0 0
Agar 2 4 61.4 14 162 7 3/46 5/101 2.62 0 0
Cummins 2 4 63.0 12 174 6 3/63 4/101 2.76 0 0
contribution to lead the team to
an emphatic win.
Tamim with the bat was pivotal
in both the Bangladesh innings. In
the first, the left-handed batsman
scored 71 and put up a 155-run
stand with Shakib to take Bangladesh
from 10/3 to 165/4 as Bangladesh
had only two other batsmen
score more than 20.
In the second innings, the home
side were in almost a similar situation
when Tamim took charge
again, only to miss out on a deserving
century, having made 78.
Tamim was silent in his home-