Cricket Highlights, 07 Jul: ZIM vs BAN (Only Test–Day 1)

The Day-1 of the one-off Test between Bangladesh and Zimbabwe rolled on the field yesterday. Let’s have a glimpse on the article to know about the interesting happenings of the day’s game.

ZIM vs BAN (Only Test – Day 1)

Mominul Haque’s 70, Liton Das’s 95, and Mahmudullah’s 54 helped the Tigers to reach 294 for the loss of 8 wickets in 83 overs at the end of the first day. Mahmudullah is unbeaten on 54 off 141 balls at the end of the day. Taskin Ahmed (13) is unbeaten with him.

The Tigers won the toss and elected to bat first and lost a wicket in the first over. Opener Saif Hassan returned to the dressing room after being bowled by pacer Blessing Muzarabani without scoring.  Najmul Hossain Shanto could not do anything well. In the fifth over, he became the second victim of Muzarabani. He got caught at the third slip for 2 runs. Another batsman Shadman Islam returned with 23 runs off 64 balls.

After that, experienced batsman Mushfiqur Rahim (11) fell victim to lbw and returned to the dressing room. Shakib also gave away his valuable wicket by playing 5 balls and scoring 3 runs. The world’s best all-rounder has returned with a catch by Regis Chakabva off Victor Nyauchi.

Before these two experienced batsmen got out, however, captain Mominul picked up his half-century. In the 27th over of the innings, the Tigers’ captain completed the 14th fifty of his career by hitting a boundary in the square leg region to Muzarbani. Meanwhile, despite hoping for a century, captain Mominul left the field after scoring 70 off 92 balls with a catch by Dion Myers off Nyauchi.

Then Mahmudullah and Liton Das took the helm of the team. On the seventh wicket, the two made a big pair of 138 runs. Liton could not score a hundred runs even though he picked up a half-century. At 13 boundaries, he returned to the pavilion with a 95 off 147 balls with a catch by Nyauchi off Donald Tiripano. After that, Mehidy Hasan Miraz (0) returned to the dressing room in the first ball being lbw by Tiripano. However, Taskin blocked Tiripano’s hat-trick.

Mahmudullah remained unbeaten on 54 in his 50th Test. The more Mahmudullah can survive along with the lower order, more collections will be added to the Tigers’ scoreboard. The game ended 7 overs earlier due to lack of light.

Scoreboard:
Bangladesh (1st Innings) – 294/8 (83)

The battle of red-ball cricket between Bangladesh and Zimbabwe has started. Stay with Baji to know more about the series!