Bangladesh beat Zimbabwe in 1st T 20 played in 2009

Zimbabwe was scheduled to play a 7 Match T 20 International series in Bangladesh in 2009. 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 1 and 3. The 1st T 20 international match was to be played on Shere Bangla National Stadium, Dhaka, Bangladesh. 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    T 20 international match: Tatenda Taibu (wk), Elton Chigumbura, Stuart Matsikenyeri, Tawanda Mupariwa, Ed Rainsford, Prosper Utseya (c), Hamilton Masakadza, Keith Dabengwa, Sean Williams, Ray Price, Malcolm Waller

And Bangladesh team and 11 was looking like this in this 1st    T 20 international Match: Mohammad Ashraful (c), Nazmul Hossain, Mashrafe Mortaza, Mushfiqur Rahim (wk), Shakib Al Hasan, Tamim Iqbal, Junaid Siddique, Mahmudullah Riad, Naeem Islam, Rubel Hossain, Raqibul Hasan

Zimbabwe did not batted well and was able to post total of only 130 runs in 20 over’s at the loss of 8 wickets and with top scores of Ray P who made 40 runs in 30 balls with 3 4’s and 1 six at the strike rate of 133 runs in 100 balls and Hamilton M who made 30 runs in 30 balls with 1 4’s and 2 six at the strike rate of 100 runs in 100 balls.

Bangladesh was needed to score 131 runs in 20 over’s to win this match.

Bangladesh batted well and was able to chase the target of 131 runs in 19.1 over’s at the loss of 5 wicket and won the game by 5 wickets in hand and with top contributions from S A hasan who made 44 runs in 22 balls with 2 4’s and 3 sixes at the strike rate of 200 runs in 100 balls.

Bangladesh won the match by 5 wickets in hand and series stands at 1-0 in favor of Bangladesh with 6 more games to play.

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