Dolar and Mushfiqur make it 4-1 for Bangladesh

By Rahul Bajaj
for Cricketain.com

Published: August 19, 2009

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Bulawayo: After three consecutive high scoring matches, the bowlers finally came to the party in the fifth and final match of the ODI series.

Zimbabwe won the toss and decided to bat but the thoughts of repeating the 312 they scored in the fourth ODI were soon undone by an incisive spell from Dolar Mahmud. A lower-order revival pushed the score to 210 but it wasn’t enough to challenge Bangladesh, who stormed to a 4-1 series win thanks to Mushfiqur Rahim’s 98.

Zimbabwe’s fate was pretty much sealed when they slipped to 69 for 6 in the 14^th over with Bangladesh quickie Dolar Mahmud running through the top order. He ended with figures of 4 for 28, earning himself the Man of the Match award in the process.

“It’s good to perform well in international cricket and I played well this time. The wicket was providing assistance and I made use of it,” said Dolar.

Dolar, flown in during the series, dismissed Vusi Sibanda for two, with Charles Coventry, who had scored a record-equalling highest one day score of 194 in the last match, out for nought. His next victim was Malcolm Waller, who just made it into double figures. Elton Chigumbura was then sent back with another big inswinger after Syed Rasel had seen off Sean Williams.

The patient Brendan Taylor did his best to salvage something from a tricky situation and he duly made 61 before he was lbw to Mehrab Hossain jnr.

Bangladesh did not get off to the quickest of starts but marshalled by opener Mushfiqur they reached home safely. He was stopped from reaching a deserved maiden century by Ray Price.

Tamim Iqbal, with 300-odd runs over the series including a match-winning 150-plus in the fourth ODI, picked up the player of the series award.

“This is my first such award and hopefully there’ll be more to come,” said Tamim. “The 154 was my best innings and hopefully there’ll be many more. The top order played very well this series, and Junaid (Siddique) supported me really well. The boys have performed superbly and we’re very happy.”

Zimbabwe’s Prosper Utseya paid tribute to the winning tourists. “Yes, we are disappointed but Bangladesh proved they were the better team.”

Brief Scores:

Bangladesh 212 for 5 (Mushfiqur 98, Price 2-21) beat Zimbabwe 209 (Taylor 61, Price 46, Dolar 4-28) by five wickets

Man of the Match: Dolar Mahmud (Bangladesh)

Man of the Series: Tamim Iqbal (Bangladesh)

Tagged with: Bangladesh, Brendan Taylor, Bulawayo, Charles Coventry, Dolar Mahmud, Elton Chigumbura, Mushfiqur Rahim, Prosper Utseya, Tamim Iqbal, Vusi Sibanda, Zimbabwe

Dolar and Mushfiqur make it 4-1 for Bangladesh

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