Bangladesh beat Zimbabwe in 2nd ODI played in 2007

Bangladesh was scheduled to play 4 Match One Day International series in Zimbabwe in 2007. 2nd One Day International match was played on Harare Sports Club, Harare, Zimbabwe.

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

This is how Zimbabwe team and 11 was looking like in this 2nd One Day International: Elton C, Vusi Sibanda, Prosper Utseya (c), Hamilton Masakadza, Chris Mpofu, Anthony Ireland, Chamu Chibhabha, Sean Williams, Terry Duffin, Tafadzwa M (wk), Gary Brent

And Bangladesh team and was looking like this in the 2nd One day international Match: H 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 250 runs in 50 over’s at the loss of 6 wickets and with contributions of Mohammad Ashraful who made 68 runs in 100 balls with 5 4’s and strike rate of 68 runs in 100 balls and Skipper H Bashar who made 78 runs in 100 balls with 5 4’s and strike rate of 100 runs in 100 balls and Abdur Razzak also made 54 runs in 44 balls with 5 4’s and strike rate of 110 runs in 100 balls.

Zimbabwe was needed to score 251 runs in 50 over’s to win this game.

Zimbabwe started poorly and were 5 wickets down for only 101 runs in 35 over’s and they kept losing wickets at regular intervals of the game and were bowled out for only 214 runs in 49.4 over’s and with contributions of V Sibanda who made 67 runs in 106 balls with 3 4’s and strike rate of 70 runs in 100 balls and Prosper Utseya who made 56 runs in 39 balls with 3 4’s and 3 sixes at the strike rate of 169 runs in 100 balls.

Bangladesh won the game by 36 runs and take lead of 2-0 in this 4 Match ODI series.

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