Bangladesh tour of Zimbabwe series includes 3 odi games, 3 t20 game and 1 test game. Test match between two teams was played first, and today Day 2 has been completed. Zimbabwe team won toss and they elected field first and gave batting lineup to Bangladesh team. Both teams have played their 1 st lineup and after 1 st lineup it looks like Zimbabwe team will win easily. Bangladesh batsmen batted so poor in 1 st line and made 140 runs only. Mominul batsmen only batted well from Bangladesh team and scored 60 runs in 81 balls and hitted twelve 4s. Mostly their batsmen performed worst and made few runs like 2 ,4, 5 etc. On other hand, Zimbabwe team made 410 runs in 1 at line and Newman bowler bowled out 4 wickets in 12 overs and gave 61 runs. Innocent opened line strongly and made half century 140 runs and hitted seventeen 4s. Bangladesh is currently batting in their 2 nd lineup. They have lost 1 wicket and scored 40 runs so far. To compete with Zimbabwe’s total, they still need 230 more runs.
It is the usual story for Bangladesh. They perform very well when they play at Mirpur where the pitch is doctored. But they struggle against teams like Zimbabwe, when they play under fair conditions. And yesterday was no different. Zimbabwe got to a 400 plus total, with the relatively unknown Innocent Kaia scoring 140. And remember that this time the Zimbabweans don't have a lot many of their regular players (Sikandar Raza, Ryan Burl, Nick Welch.etc). And even then the Bangladeshi bowlers struggled. BTW, Bangladesh was also lacking many of their regular players like Nahid Rana, Mustafizur Rahman and Taskin Ahmed.