After playing 15 ODI matches, Tanjid Hasan Tamim made his T20 debut for Bangladesh. He repaid the trust in the first match against Zimbabwe. The opener gave Bangladesh a 1-0 lead in the fifty-match series.
Tamim remained unbeaten with 67 runs at the Zahoor Ahmed Chowdhury Stadium on Friday (May 3). Bangladesh responded to Zimbabwe’s 124 runs in his innings with 28 balls in hand, the red and greens won by 8 wickets. Tawheed Hridoy played an innings of 33 runs off 18 balls.
Liton Kumar Das could not last more than a few minutes when he came down to chase the run. A brilliant needle from Blazing Mujarabani sends his stumps flying. 1 run off 3 balls. After 10 runs on the score board, it started raining. As a result, the match was stopped for a while.
After the rain, Nazmul Hossain Shanto and Tanjid Hasan Tamim’s bats slowly started to turn the wheel of runs for Bangladesh. Tanjid was getting occasional boundaries too, he even got a life once. After the team’s run reached 44, rain came again, and as a result, the match was stopped again.
After the second innings of rain, Shanto went down to bat and was dismissed for 21 runs. Then Tamim completed his maiden fifty with Tawheed Hriday in 36 balls. He came to life once more with a personal 53, his simple catch left by the Zimbabwean wicketkeeper.
After standing Tamim at one end, Hridiya stormed. He played an innings of 33 runs off 18 balls with 5 fours and 1 six. Tamim has hit 8 fours and 2 sixes in his 47-ball innings.
Before that, Zimbabwe scored 124 runs after losing all the wickets. Clive Madanda and Wellington Masakadza guided the visitors after losing 7 wickets for 41 runs in Mehdi Sheikh-Taskin-Saifuddin’s batting. Madanda 43 and Masakadja 34 runs took the role of savior. Taskin and Saifuddin took 3 wickets each for Bangladesh. Mehdi Hasan took 2 wickets.
