Mushfiqur steers Bangladesh to easy win against Windies
DHAKA: Mushfiqur Rahim top scored with an unbeaten 55 as Bangladesh defeated West Indies by five wickets in the first one-day international in Dhaka yesterday. Set a modest target after three wickets each from Mashrafe Mortaza and Mustafizur Rahman helped Bangladesh restrict West Indies to 195-9, the hosts sailed to 196-5 in 35.1 overs for a comprehensive win to kick off the threematch series.
Mushfiqur shared 57 runs with Shakib Al Hasan for the fourth wicket to steady Bangladesh’s innings after West Indies had reduced the home side to 89-3 on a slow pitch at the Sher-e-Bangla National Stadium.
Rovman Powell dismissed Shakib for 30 to break the stand but Soumya Sarkar killed off the visitors’ hopes with a brief cameo of 19 from 13 balls, which included two fours and a six. Mushfiqur, who hit five boundaries in his patient knock, pushed Roston Chase for a single to complete his 31st fifty in ODIs before an outside edge to leg spinner Devendra flew to third man for two runs to wrap up the victory.
Earlier, opener Liton Das scored 41 off 57 balls with five fours for the home side, but not before he was reprieved on five off a no-ball by Kemar Roach. West Indies owed their total to 43 off 59 balls by opener Shai Hope and contributions from lower order batsmen Roston Chase and Keemo Paul, who made 32 and 36 runs respectively. The visitors, who opted to bat first, had been restricted to 127-6 after 40 overs despite Hope’s effort, but Chase and Paul put on 51 runs for the seventh wicket to give their bowlers something to fight for.
Paul hit two sixes and a four in his 28-ball innings before he was dismissed by Mustafizur in the final over. Left-arm pacer Mustafizur finished with 3-35 after fellow fast bowler Mashrafe grabbed 3-30 playing his 200th ODI-the first Bangladeshi to do so.
Mashrafe was named man of the match for his effort. “The West Indies are very dangerous in this format but our bowlers were brilliant,” Mashrafe said after the match.
West Indies’ Powell blamed his side’s batting for their defeat. “We just didn’t bat as well as we wanted to and that brought about our downfall. The players who got starts on such a hard wicket should have carried on,” he said. The second match of the series will be held at the same venue on Tuesday. —AFP Scoreboard of the first one-day international between Bangladesh and West Indies at the Sher-e-Bangla National Stadium in Dhaka yesterday:
West Indies innings
K. Powell c Rubel b Shakib 10 S. Hope c Mehidy b Mashrafe 43 D. Bravo c Tamim b Mashrafe 19 M. Samuels c Liton b Rubel 25 S. Hetmyer b Mehidy 6 R. Powell c Liton b Mashrafe 14 R. Chase c Mehidy b Mustafizur 32
K. Paul c Mehidy b Mustafizur 36 K. Roach not out 5 D. Bishoo c & b Mustafizur 0 O. Thomas not out 0 Extras (lb 3, w2) 5 Total (nine wickets; 50 overs) 195 Fall of wickets: 1-29 (Powell), 2-65(Bravo), 3-78 (Hope), 4-93 (Hetmyer), 5-119 (Powell), 6-127(Samuels), 7-178 (Chase), 8-194 (Paul), 9-195 (Bishoo)
Bowling: Mehidy 10-0-30-1, Shakib 10-0-36-1, Mustafizur 10-035-3, Mashrafe 10-0-30-3 (w1), Rubel 10-0-61-1 (w1).
Bangladesh innings
Tamim Iqbal c Bishoo b Chase 12 Liton Das b Paul 41 Imrul Kayes b Thomas 4 Mushfiqur Rahim not out 55 Shakib Al Hasan c Hope b Powell 30 Soumya Sarkar c Powell b Chase 19 Mahmudullah Riyad not out 14 Extras (lb 6, w13, nb2) 21 Total (five wickets; 35.1 overs) 196 Did not bat: Mehidy Hasan, Mashrafe Mortaza, Mustafizur Rahman, Rubel Hossain
Fall of wickets: 1-37 (Tamim), 2-42 (Imrul), 3-89 (Liton Das), 4-146 (Sakib), 5-175 (Soumya)
Bowling: Roach 6-0-35-0 (w5, nb1), Chase 9-1-47-2 (w2), Thomas 5-0-34-1 (w3, nb1), Paul 8-0-37-1 (w3), Bishoo 6.1-0-30-0, Powell 1-0-7-1.
Result: Bangladesh won by five wickets