Bangladesh beat Ireland in 1st ODI in Bilateral Series

Ireland was scheduled to play a 3 Match One Day international series in Bangladesh. This series will be great as both teams are playing good cricket and its difficult to beat Bangladesh in their home conditions Still Ireland holds the edge over Bangladesh.

The 1st One day International Match was scheduled to play on Shere Bangla National Stadium, Dhaka, Bangladesh on 18th March.

Ireland won the toss and opts to bat first and this means Bangladesh will bowl first.

This is how the Bangladesh team and 11 was looking like in this 1st One day International Match: Mohammad Ashraful (c), Abdur Razzak, Aftab Ahmed, Mashrafe Mortaza, Shahriar Nafees, Farhad Reza, Shakib Al Hasan, Tamim Iqbal, Dhiman Ghosh (wk), Mahmudullah, Raqibul Hasan

And Ireland team and 11 looking like in this 1st One day International Match: Trent Johnston (c), Kyle McCallan, Andre Botha, Dave Langford-Smith, Eoin Morgan, William Porterfield, Kevin O’Brien, Niall O’Brien (wk), Alex Cusack, Reinhardt Strydom, Greg Thompson

Ireland batted poorly and kept losing wickets at regular intervals of the game and was only able to make 185 runs in 50 over’s at the loss of 7 wickets and top scored by A Cusack who made 38 runs in 61 balls with 1 four and 1 six at the strike rate of 62 runs in 100 balls.

Bangladesh was needed to score 186 runs in 50 over’s to win this game.

Bangladesh batted very well and was able to chase the target in only 39.5 over’s at the loss of only 2 wickets and top scored by S Nafees who made 90 runs in 121 balls with 11 4’s and 1 six at the strike rate of 74 runs in 100 balls.

And Skipper M Ashraf made unbeaten 64 runs in 90 balls with 8 4’s and 1 six at the strike rate of 71 runs in 100 balls.

Bangladesh won the game by 8 wickets and S Nafees was the man of the match.

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