Bangladesh crush Zimbabwe 4-1 in Grameen phone cup ODI series, 2009

Bangladesh outplayed Zimbabwe by five wickets with 13 balls to spare in the fifth and the final Grameen phone cup One-day International to take the series 4-1 on 18th August. Tuesday. Zimbabwe won the toss and elected to bat but hopes of a repeat of their 312 total in the fourth game never materialized with the hosts all out for 209.
young wicket keeper batsman Mushfiqur Rahim’s wonderful 98 and pace bowler Dolar Mahmood took 4 wickets to guide Bangladesh to a five wickets victory last and fifth one day international series held on Queen’s Sports Club, Bulawayo.
It turned out to be a good toss to lose for Bangladesh, after wining the toss Zimbabwe captain choose the batting first in wing and seam movement of the pitch. batsmen of host team didn’t respect the conditions enough, and slipped to 69 for 6 in the 14th over. The game was all but sealed. The right-arm seam bowler, Dolar Mahmood who played his first match of the tour, utilized the swinging conditions well. His career best bowling 4/28 in his 5th ODI match Zimbabwe forced to all out only 209 runs. Zimbabwe’s fate had been sealed when they slipped to 69 for six in the 14th over and than BrandonTaylor’s 61 runs, 46 runs of Raymond Price and 21 run of captain Prosper Utseya 21 run help them to reach small target.
Chasing a small total in good batting conditions, Mushfiqur Rahim got the promotion as a opener with Tamim Iqbal put on 48 for the first wicket in 9 overs. Rahim started cautiously before opening up, smashing 11 boundaries in 121 balls as Bangladesh romped home with 13 balls to spare at the Queen Sports Club. when all the spectator had the preparation to see his maiden century Musfiq done a great mistake and he stumped on 98 runs. Naeem Islam hit four to Williams over the bowler’s head to seal a 4-1 win victory against Zimbabwe.
Tamim Iqbal become the man of the series of the tournament who scored 300 runs in 5 match with the average of 60. he scored tornado innings of 154 run in 4th ODI and another 2 fifty plus score highest this series. Remond Price took highest 8 wickets of both the countries. Left hand pace bowler Syed Rasel got 7 wickets become the best wicket taking bowler of Bangladesh.
5 match one day series against Bangladesh and Zimbabwe started from 9 August where Bangladesh beat host country by 8 wickets. in this match host country scored 207 runs in 47.2 over. MA Vermeulen was the top scorer 92 runs. But former captain of Bangladesh Md. Ashraful 3rd one day century help the Bangladesh reached target easily when 16 over left.
In 2nd ODI, Bangladesh beat host country by 49 runs where tigers scored highest total 320 runs and captain Shakib Al hasan’s hurricane innings of 104 runs in only 64 balls which was the no. 8 quick 100 in ODI.
Zimbabwe beat Bangladesh in 3rd match by 69 runs. In this match they scored 323 runs where Hamilton Masakadza knocked 102. Bangladesh all out in 254 runs by the help of Raqibul Hasan 78 run and Mahabubul Alam’s quick 54 runs.
Although host country scored 312 runs the tigers reach their huge target with 13 balls remaining by the explosive batting of 21 years old opener Tamim Iqbal’s 154 run iof only 138 balls in 4th match of the series.
Bangladesh started their ODI match in 1985-86 in John Player Gold Leaf Trophy (Asia Cup) . Since the 1985 to 2009 Bangladesh won 11 ODI international series.