Sports Desk, Bangladesh Global: Bangladeshi bowlers came up with devastating spells to bowl Zimbabwe out for a meager score of 124 runs in the opening game of the five-match T20 series.
The trio - Taskin Ahmed, Mohammad Saifuddin and Mahedi Hasan - tightly bowled, forcing the visitors to lose all of their wickets at Zahur Ahmed Chowdhury Stadium in Chattogram on Friday.
Being asked to bat, Zimbabwe started well but all of a sudden lost momentum offering six wickets within just five runs, standing at 41/7 after 7.4 overs.
However, Zimbabwe did not let it go so easily as Clive Madande and Wellington Masakadza made a 75-run stand in the eighth wicket which provided them to post a below per score of 124 runs losing all wickets after 20 overs.
Taskin and Saifuddin bagged three wickets each for Bangladesh while Mahedi Hasan got two.
Playing XIs
Bangladesh: Litton Das(w), Tanzid Hasan, Najmul Hossain Shanto(c), Towhid Hridoy, Mahmudullah, Jaker Ali, Mahedi Hasan, Taskin Ahmed, Shoriful Islam, Rishad Hossain, Mohammad Saifuddin.
Zimbabwe: Joylord Gumbie(w), Craig Ervine, Brian Bennett, Sean Williams, Sikandar Raza(c), Clive Madande, Luke Jongwe, Wellington Masakadza, Ryan Burl, Blessing Muzarabani, Richard Ngarava.
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