Zimbabwe beat Bangladesh in 1st ODI of series,2010

Zimbabwe was scheduled to play a 5 Match ONE DAY International in Bangladesh in 2010. Both teams have great players and all rounder’s and match winners and it would be interesting to see them battle in this series and who batted very well  will be crowned as the winner after the series as they are ranked at 8 and 9. The 1st ONE DAY international match was to be played on Shere Bangla National Stadium, Dhaka, Bangladesh on 1st Dec 2010. Bangladesh holds the upper hand as they are more balanced team and playing very well as well.

Bangladesh won the toss and opts to bowl first; this is how Zimbabwe team and 11 was looking like in this 1st ONE DAY international match: Tatenda Taibu (wk), Elton Chigumbura (c), Brendan Taylor, Prosper Utseya, Chris Mpofu, Keith Dabengwa, Chamu Chibhabha, Keegan Meth, Regis Chakabva, Ray Price, Craig Ervine

And Bangladesh team and 11 was looking like this in this 1st ONE DAY international Match: Mohammad Ashraful, Abdur Razzak, Mashrafe Mortaza, Mushfiqur Rahim (wk), Shakib Al Hasan (c), Tamim Iqbal, Junaid Siddique, Mahmudullah, Imrul Kayes, Shafiul Islam, Suhrawadi Shuvo

Zimbabwe batted well and was able to post total of 209 runs in 50 over’s at the loss of 10 wickets and with top scores of Regis C who made 45 runs in 85 balls with 4 4’s and 0 six at the strike rate of 53 runs in 100 balls and Craig E who made 41 runs in 59 balls with 2 4’s and 0 six at the strike rate of 69 runs in 100 balls.

Bangladesh was needed to score 210 runs in 50 over’s to win this match.

Bangladesh batted well but was unable to chase the target of 210 runs and was only able to make 200 runs in 49 over’s at the loss of 10 wickets and lost the game by 9 runs with top contributions from S A Hasan who made 63 runs in 65 balls with 8 4’s and 0 sixes at the strike rate of 97 runs in 100 balls.

Zimbabwe won the match by 9 runs and series stands at 1-0 in favor of Zimbabwe with 4 more games to play.

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