Shakib Al Hassan's Heroics Stun West-Indies.
Taunton hosts its last match of this years icc cricket world cup in england and that between the underdogs bangladesh who maintain a strong reputation of a formidable odi side since 2015 world cup and two time world champions west Indies. Bangladesh put on an Exhibition by Chasing a huge and one of their biggest chases in tournament history by 7 wickets with 8.3 overs to spare. Bangladesh with this win surpassed west indies with 5 points to boost up their place for the semi's. This is their first win over West Indies in all world cup's and their best all-rounders of the world shakib al Hassan was the star out there.
On an overcast day at taunton Bangladesh after winning the toss put West Indies to bat and proved a vital decision when chris Gayle was out for a duck of the bowling of saifuddin. After that Shai hope continues his reputation of formidable odi player for the windies as he joined Erwin lewis together for a 116 run for the second wicket. Shakib al hassan who had a superb day with both bat and bowl took erwin lewis for 70 runs. But on the other hand shai hope continued to notch up some good shots and he un luckily got the victim of nervous 90s of the bowling of mustafizur. Late order fireworks by shimron hetmyer and jason holder helped west Indies reached the formidable 321-8 in 50 overs and to make this run-chase more interesting. For bangladesh Saifuddin and mustafizur rehman took three wickets each and shakib al hassan with an all-round show picked two wickets.
In Reply Bangladesh tigers responded strongly to this stiff chase and lost soumya sarkar for the team score of 52 dismissed by Rusell. After that Bangladesh never looked back and started to chase the target with positive approach. In the middle overs tamim and mushfiq got dismissed with not much a gap on the scoreline. Bangladesh recorded a strong enough partnership after the loss of third wicket. Liton das who made an unbeaten 94 and shakib al hassan who made his second ton of the tournament by Notching up splendid 124 unbeaten. These two put on a historic stand of 189 unbeaten for the fourth wicket and stunned west Indies for the first time in Bangladesh world cup history.
Shakib al hassan the number one all rounder in one day side was the star of the match and this bangladesh side could stun the most of the teams in thier upcoming matches here.
Match Summary
West Indies 321-8 overs 50
Shai hope 96
Lewis 70
Mustafizur 3-59
Saifuddin 3-72
Bangladesh 322-3 overs 41.3
Shakib 124*
Liton Das 94*
Rusell 1-42
Bangladesh won by seven wickets.
On an overcast day at taunton Bangladesh after winning the toss put West Indies to bat and proved a vital decision when chris Gayle was out for a duck of the bowling of saifuddin. After that Shai hope continues his reputation of formidable odi player for the windies as he joined Erwin lewis together for a 116 run for the second wicket. Shakib al hassan who had a superb day with both bat and bowl took erwin lewis for 70 runs. But on the other hand shai hope continued to notch up some good shots and he un luckily got the victim of nervous 90s of the bowling of mustafizur. Late order fireworks by shimron hetmyer and jason holder helped west Indies reached the formidable 321-8 in 50 overs and to make this run-chase more interesting. For bangladesh Saifuddin and mustafizur rehman took three wickets each and shakib al hassan with an all-round show picked two wickets.
In Reply Bangladesh tigers responded strongly to this stiff chase and lost soumya sarkar for the team score of 52 dismissed by Rusell. After that Bangladesh never looked back and started to chase the target with positive approach. In the middle overs tamim and mushfiq got dismissed with not much a gap on the scoreline. Bangladesh recorded a strong enough partnership after the loss of third wicket. Liton das who made an unbeaten 94 and shakib al hassan who made his second ton of the tournament by Notching up splendid 124 unbeaten. These two put on a historic stand of 189 unbeaten for the fourth wicket and stunned west Indies for the first time in Bangladesh world cup history.
Shakib al hassan the number one all rounder in one day side was the star of the match and this bangladesh side could stun the most of the teams in thier upcoming matches here.
Match Summary
West Indies 321-8 overs 50
Shai hope 96
Lewis 70
Mustafizur 3-59
Saifuddin 3-72
Bangladesh 322-3 overs 41.3
Shakib 124*
Liton Das 94*
Rusell 1-42
Bangladesh won by seven wickets.
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