Shakib, Towhid set up record Bangladesh win against Ireland. SYLHET Shakib Al Hasan and debutant Towhid Hridoy both hardly missed centuries but still guided Bangladesh to a record 183- run win over Ireland in Saturday’s first one- day international in Sylhet.
Shakib hit 93 and Towhid added 92 to companion Bangladesh to their topmost ever ODI score of 338- 8 after the sightseers put them in to club. Ebadot Hossain led the reply with 4- 42 and left- arm incitement Nasum Ahmed diced in with 3- 42 to bowl out Ireland for 155 runs just shy of 31 overs.
“ The way we maundered was exceptional. Was not the easiest gate to club for the first 20 overs. But Shakib was brilliant, Towhid also emotional ” commander Tamim Iqbal said after the match according to Cricbuzz. George Dockrell was the last man dismissed after making 45 Ireland’s topmost total.
Stephen Doheny and Paul Stirling put on 60 runs in the opening stage but formerly Shakib dismissed Doheny for 34 Ireland collapsed to 5- 76, noway to recover.
“ We were not too disappointed at the halfway stage as the gate was good and the swish time was to club under lights, ” Ireland captain Andrew Balbirnie said.
“ But we kept losing structures and did not get any alliances. ”
Graham Hume finished with a career swish 4- 60 but the hosts inked off early pressure from the Irish bowling attack. Shakib and Towhid added 135 for the fourth gate to lift Bangladesh from 81- 3 after Tamim( 3), Litton Das( 26) and Najmul Hossain( 25) all fell cheaply. He came the alternate Bangladeshi cricketer to reach 000 ODI runs after Tamim.
Shakib is now also just the third cricketer to surpass that corner in ODI runs and 300 one- day structures after Sri Lanka’s Sanath Jayasuriya and Pakistan’s Shahid Afridi. He shifted gears after reaching his third successive ODI fifty and hitting Harry Tector for five fours in an over.
He fell seven runs short of his 10th ODI hundred after chasing a wide yorker from Hume to get the undermost edge. Towhid played the swish debut innings for Bangladesh in ODIs, adding 80 runs for the fifth gate with Mushfiqur Rahim, who struck 44 off 26 balls.
Hume removed both batsmen in the same over before taking the gate of Taskin Ahmed but the sightseers were unfit to stop the flux of runs. The remaining ODIs will be played in Sylhet on Monday and Thursday.
Ireland, who will also play three Twenty20 internationals and a Test during their stint, last visited Bangladesh for a bilateral series in 2008.
