Bangladesh vs Zimbabwe 2024, Ban Vs. Zim 4th T20I Match Report, May 10, 2024

Bangladesh 143 (Tanjid 52, Soumya 41, Jongve 3-20) Beat Zimbabwe 138 (Campbell 31, Shakib 4-35, Mustafizur 3-19) by five runs

Zimbabwe again reached close to Bangladesh's clan, but could not do much work. This time in Dhaka, Bangladesh defeated him by five runs to increase its lead in the T20I series 4–0. With a big hit towards the end, the Talenders Wellington Masakadza and Blessing Mujarabani excited and nervous – depending on which side you were supporting.

Then Shakib Al Hasan The last over took two remaining wickets, but not before that Mujarabani hit him directly for six when 13 runs were needed. Shakib ended with 4 for 35 in its first T20I in ten months. Mustafizur RahmanAt the same time, returning to the side, took three wickets, while Taskin Ahmed took two more Rishad Hussain.

Bangladesh gave Zimbabwe a huge lifeline when they fell from 101, which did not happen without any loss due to not being out for 143. The final ten wickets fell in 8.4 overs as the hosts finally failed in all 20 overs. Luke Jongway led the visitors' fightbacks with the ball, took 3 to 20. His third wicket made him 64 wickets in the format, as he defeated Tandai Chatara Zimbabwe's biggest wicket In T20Is.

Bangladesh leaves for a flyer

Tanjid went to Powerplay almost after bowling on his own. He reached 40 runs off 27 balls with seven fours, making Soumya much less to the other end. Before opening in the next two overs, Soumya faced only nine balls during the powerplay. He reversed Brian Bennett in the seventh over, before Jongve to Jongve over the cover.

At the end of the ninth over, Tanjid arrived in the series with a single in his second fifty with a single, as he continued to impress in his first series. Soon after, Tanjid and Soumya reached their hundred stands, Third by Bangladeshi opening pair In T20Is. That partnership of the opener suggested that Bangladesh would get a big score. But all this soon went downhill.

Big fall just after Big Stand

Both openers fell in the 12th over when Jonathan Campbell caught a good catch to remove Tanjid, before Soumya missed the slow yorker of Jongve and was stuck for LBW for 41. Despite the solid platform, the rest of the batsmen did not give the big crowd a chance to please the rest of the innings.

In the last two matches, the match player tohid Hridoy extended Alexander Raza towards Deep Square leg, where, Bennett took a good catch. Bennett then entered the Act in the following over with his offspins. He got the ball secretly through Shakib's bat and pad with his first ball, before Najmul Hussain Shanto played around a delivery away from the last ball.

Richard Nagrawa removed Zakar Ali in the 17th over before the mixture between the Rishad and the taskein. The taskin was out of the crease, but the Rishad sent him back, and pointed to the midwicket fielder; But by then it was too late, and could not return to his crease in tasks time.

Jongve, Nagarawa and Mujarabani took the last three wickets to fall. In the last over, however, Zimbabwe missed a run-out chance. The last pair of Bangladesh Tanveer Islam and Mustafizur tried to score an additional runs by overthrowing, Mustafizur was well less at the end of the non-strayer. Campbell, however, could not do the ball at the stump, much more for the entertainment of the pack house.

A familiar conflict

In the chase, Zimbabwe once again failed to land for a good start. When he fell in the first over, Bennett could not repeat his bowling effectiveness with the bat. Taskin converted her into a bridge shot, resulting in Shakib caught at the mid-on. Alexander Raza, promoting himself at number 3, hit four boundaries in the first two overs, but lasted only for the fourth over. With Raza at 17, Taskin removed her with a good length ball, which uprooted the stump between her.

Tadivashe Marumani, who hit Shakib for two fours in the third over, withdrew Raza in the fifth over to the dugout. Shakib trapped her LBW when Marumani attempted a slog sweep. When Madande fell in the tenth over, remembering his reverse sweep, the Rishad lbw him for 12.

Campbell leads brief resistance

Bangladesh dropped two opportunities after Zimbabwe on ropes in the tenth over. But Hridoy dropped Campbell on 12, before Zakar placed the skier of Ryan Berl on 1. The pair was combined to take 20 runs from Tanjim Hasan in the 13th over. Campbell killed one six and one four, before the clip of the burl sent the ball to the stand above the square leg.

But his brief resistance ended with Mustafizur bowling in the 15th over, where he hit twice. Soumya took a good running catch from long-on to end Berl's stay at 19. Jongve directed his second ball at this point to make Rishad 94 for 6 for 6. Shakib removed the campbell in the 17th over, in which Shanto took the skier at mid-off.

Masakadza keeps things interesting

The campbell fell, Masakadza hit Shakib for four and six. But Tanjim brought back things with six runs in the 18th over, before Mustafizur scored only seven runs, where he also removed Akram.

Tanjid, who took a good catch to remove Akram, then dropped an easy chance of Masakadza with the first ball of the last over. Mujarabani hit the next six balls on Big Six, but Shakib cleverly bowled Mujrabani as a detailed bowling, and Jakar completed the stumping. Ngarava then bowled the next ball to relieve the house crowd.

Mohammad Isam Ispncricinfo is a reporter of Bangladesh. @isam84

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