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06/11 10:07 CDT Bangladesh secures maiden ODI series win over Australia
Bangladesh secures maiden ODI series win over Australia
MIRPUR, Bangladesh (AP) --- Bangladesh secured its first one-day international
series win over Australia on Thursday.
A 2 1/2-hour rain delay forced a revised DLS target of 192 in 41 overs and
Bangladesh reached 195-5 with six overs to spare to take an unassailable 2-0
lead in the three-match series. The third and final game will be played at the
same venue on Sunday.
The depleted Australians started the match losing three wickets without a run
on the board. Half-centuries from Marnus Labuschagne (55 not out) and Xavier
Bartlett (52) bailed them out to 187-8 in 42 overs.
Opening batter Soumya Sarkar, the only change Bangladesh made from the team
which won the first game at the same venue by 86 runs on the DLS Method, and
Najmul Hossain Shanto both made 42 runs each while Towhid Hridoy was unbeaten
on 40 off 55 balls.
Shanto had a nervy start but steadied the chase with a stand of 86 runs with
Sarkar. Shanto edged Riley Meredith behind to gave the fast bowler his first
ODI wicket in five years following his recall.
Bangladesh wobbled at 144-5 in the 27th over but Hridoy and captain Mehidy
Hasan Miraz shared an unbeaten 51-run match-winning stand to clinch the
historic series result.
Just before the end, Mehidy took a blow to the helmet from a Nathan Ellis
delivery and dropped to his knees and vomited. Mehidy spurned a stretcher and
was allowed to continue but Shanto suggested he was taken to hospital afterward
for observation.
Australia electing to bat first and Matthew Short was out for his third
successive duck in ODIs followed by Cooper Connolly and Renshaw, also out for
ducks. It was only the fourth time in ODI history that a team lost its first
three wickets without a run on the board.
Left-arm fast bowler Mustafizur Rahman (3-27) and and Taskin Ahmed (3-33) took
the wickets, and Mustafizur also had Alex Carey caught at point.
When captain Josh Inglis holed out at deep cover, Australia had lost half its
wickets for 68 runs.
Labuschagne, who dropped to No. 7 in the lineup, and Bartlett revived Australia
with a 103-run partnership. Labuschagne's first ODI fifty in 14 innings came
after he should have been run out on 1, but Tanvir Islam's missed the stumps.
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