Apaya Sharjah now filled both hands with Bangladesh, looking up. This field, which has repeatedly given disappointment, is now ‘guilty’. Removed the barrenness of success. The circle of loss is broken. At the same time some other unprecedented events happened here.
After nine consecutive losses, the team stands in front of the record of the most consecutive losses in one field. That’s when the release came. On Saturday, the Bangladesh team saw victory for the first time in this field of Sharjah after defeating the Afghans.
Bangladesh and Afghanistan face off in the second match of the three-match ODI series on Saturday. Where the Tigers won by 68 runs. After batting 252 runs, the hosts were restricted to 184 runs.
Which is Bangladesh’s first victory in Sharjah. Earlier, Tigers were winless despite playing 9 matches in three formats. Losing this match would have been a complete failure. A world record for consecutive defeats at the same ground.
None of these three cricketers are in the eleven of the ODI team. Such an incident has never happened before after their debut. After more than 18 years, Bangladesh played without these three.
Since August 4, 2006, some of them have been in the team in 310 consecutive ODI matches of Bangladesh. 180 matches three were together in the eleven. Only his interruption happened this time. Bangladesh played yesterday without these three experienced soldiers.
Meanwhile, captain Nazmul Hossain Shanto played a great role with the bat in this memorable victory of Bangladesh. He scored 76 runs off 119 balls with 6 fours and 1 six. Bangladesh’s ‘fifty’ drought of almost three years ended in Sharjah.
Shantar’s fifty, second for Bangladesh in Sharjah. In 1990, Azhar Hossain Shantu, the former right-handed batsman, became the first Bangladeshi batsman to score a half-century at the Sharjah ground. Shanta repeated that record after 34 years.
Source: dailynayadiganta