Bangladesh beat Zimbabwe in 1st ODI played in 2007

Bangladesh was scheduled to play 4 Match One Day International series in Zimbabwe in 2007. 1st One Day International match was played on Harare Sports Club, Harare, Zimbabwe on 4th Feb, 2007.

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

This is how Zimbabwe team and 11 was looking like in this 1^st One Day International: Elton Chigumbura, Vusi Sibanda, Prosper Utseya (c), Hamilton Masakadza, Chris Mpofu, Anthony Ireland, Chamu Chibhabha, Sean Williams, Terry Duffin, Tafadzwa Mufambisi (wk), Gary Brent

And Bangladesh team and was looking like this in the 1^st One day international Match: Habibul Bashar (c), Mohammad Ashraful, Mohammad Rafique, Abdur Razzak, Aftab Ahmed, Mashrafe Mortaza, Shahadat Hossain, Shahriar Nafees, Mushfiqur Rahim (wk), Shakib Al Hasan, Mehrab Hossain jnr.

Bangladesh started well and was able to post 260 runs in 50 over’s at the loss of 9 wickets and with contributions of S A Hasan who made 68 runs in 78 balls with 6 4’s and strike rate of 87 runs in 100 balls and Skipper H Bashar who made 78 runs in 87 balls with 7 4’s and strike rate of 90 runs in 100 balls and S Nafees also made 34 runs in 44 balls with 4 4’s and strike rate of 78 runs in 100 balls.

Zimbabwe was needed to score 261 runs in 50 over’s to win this game.

Zimbabwe started poorly and were 5 wickets down for only 151 runs in 40 over’s and they kept losing wickets at regular intervals of the game and were bowled out for only 215 runs in 47.5 over’s and with contributions of Chamu C who made 57 runs in 116 balls with 2 4’s  and strike rate of 59 runs in 100 balls and Elton C who made 46 runs in 29 balls with 2 4’s and 3 sixes at the strike rate of 159 runs in 100 balls.

Bangladesh won the game by 45 runs and S A Hasan was the man of the Match for all round performance.

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