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19-YEAR-OLD MEHEDI BAGS SIX WICKETS TO HAND BANGLADESH HISTORIC WIN
angladesh on Sunday recorded their first Test victory over England, taking all ten wickets in a single session thanks to teenage offspin sensation Mehedi Hasan to win the second Test by 108 runs and square the series. Celebrations erupted at Dhaka’s Sher-e-Bangla Stadium and across the country as Bangladeshis revelled in one of the proudest moments in their sporting history.
Chasing a target of 273, England seemed to be cruising when Alastair Cook and Ben Duckett guided them to 100 without loss at tea. But 19-year-old Mehedi, playing in only his second Test, triggered a dramatic collapse in the final session of the third day.
England crumbled to 164 all out to suffer their first ever defeat by Bangladesh in 10 Tests and share the two-Test series 1-1. Bangladesh secured Test status in 2000 and the win was only their eighth in 95 Tests.
Mehedi, who celebrated his 19th birthday this week, took the final wicket of Steven Finn to finish with 6-77 in the innings and 12 for 159 in the match. It was his country’s best-ever bowling figure in Tests, overtaking Enamul Haque Jr’s 12-200 against Zimbabwe in 2005.
He finished the series with 19 scalps. Shakib Al Hasan, the only other Bangladeshi apart from Mehedi and Enamul to take 10 or more wickets in Tests, joined the party with 4-49, including three wickets in an over.
England had reason to feel confident after Duckett and Cook gave them a confident start in pursuit of an achievable target, before Mehedi struck with the first ball of the final session. He bowled Duckett for 56 and then quickly (overnight 152-3) 40 78 1 47 41 9 15 25 5 2 7 26 Tamim Iqbal c Cook b Ansari Imrul Kayes lbw b Ali Mominul Haque c Cook b Stokes Mahmudullah b Ansari Shakib Al Hasan b Rashid Mushfiqur Rahim c Cook b Stokes Sabbir Rahman lbw b Rashid Shuvagata Hom not out Tajiul Islam c Bairstow b Stokes Mehedi Hasan c Root b Rashid Kamrul Islam c and b Rashid > Extras: (b17, lb7, w1, nb1)
1-65 (Tamim), 2-66 (Mominul), 3-152 (Mahmudullah), 4-200 (Kayes), 5-238 (Shakib), 6-238 (Rahim), 7-268 (Sabbir), 8-273 ( Taijul), 9-276 (Mehedi), 10-296 (Kamrul)
Finn 3-0-18-0, Ali 19-2-60-1, Ansari 19-0-76-2, Stokes 12-2-52-3 (nb1, w1), Rashid 11.5-152-4, Woakes 2-0-14-0 A. Cook c Mominul b Mehedi B. Duckett b Mehedi J. Root lbw b Shakib G. Ballance c Tamim b Mehedi M. Ali lbw Mehedi B. Stokes b Shakib J. Bairstow c Shuvagata b Mehedi C. Woakes not out A. Rashid lbw b Shakib Z. Ansari c Kayes b Shakib S. Finn lbw b Mehedi > Extras: (b4 lb2) 1-100 (Duckett), 2-105 (Root), 3-124 (Ballance), 4-124 (Ali), 5-127 (Cook), 6-139 (Bairstow), 7-161 (Stokes), 8-161 (Rashid), 9-161 (Ansari), 10-164 (Finn). Mehedi 21.3-2-77-6, Shakib 13-1-49-4, Shuvagata 6-0-25-0, Taijul 5-2-7-0. Bangladesh won by 108 runs Two-Test series drawn 1-1 Bangladesh 59 56 1 5 0 25 3 9 0 0 0 6