Bangladesh whip Windies by 48 runs in first ODI despite Hetymer’s half-century

Jul 23, 2018 Sports

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By Sean Devers
In the first ever International Cricket match in Guyana without Radio Commentary, Windies slumped to a 48 –run defeat to Bangladesh at Providence in the first ODI in the three match series as the hosts began their 2019 World Cup preparations inauspiciously.
Tamim Iqbal’s unbeaten 130 lasted 160 and included 10 fours and three sixes and was the slowest ton in ODIs by a Bangladesh batsman but his 207-run second wicket stand with Shakib Al Hassan, whose 97 from 121 balls with six fours on a slow track, was important to helping Bangladesh to their highest total against the Windies in the West Indies.

Mushfiqur Rahim’s pugnacious 11-ball 30 was decorated with three fours and two sixes and along Tamim ensured that 53 runs came from the three overs as the visitors reached 275-4 off 50 overs.
Guyanese leg-spinner Devendra Bishoo took 2-52 for the Windies who could only reach 231-9 from 50 overs.
Only Chris Gayle who hit a subdued 60-ball 40 with a four and two sixes and 21-year-old Guyanese Shimron Hetymer who made 52 from 78 balls with five fours, offered prolonged resistance to Mashrafe Mortaza (4-37) and Mustafizur Rahman (2-27).
Watched by a disappointing turn out which could get less for Wednesday’s Day/Night game which starts at 14:30hrs, Evin Lewis got going with a six off Mortaza before hammering Mehidy Miraz, who opened the bowling with his off-spin, for a scorching boundary.
Gayle started slowly and put pressure on Lewis who made 17 before he succumbed to Mortaza while Rubel Hossain had Shai Hope (6) LBW at 41-2 to bring Hetymer to the crease.
Gayle hit Mehidy for a six, while Hetymer pulled Rubel Hossain with disdain for six to post the 50 in the 15th over and together they were building a partnership until Gayle ran himself out when 10 away from his 49th fifty.
Gayle, who turns 39 in September, dispatched Rubel Hossain for a six over long-off but when Hetymer dabbed a ball to short third man Gayle charged down the pitch for what would have been a suicidal single and was run out at 81-3 in the 22ndover.
Jason Mohammed (10) did not last long and perished at 111-4 and when Hetmyer was removed by Rahman after reaching his second score of over 50 in ODI Cricket after converting his first into a ton, the visitors were large and in charge in the hosts own back yard.
The Bangladesh bowlers had very little resistance from those that followed as none of them reached 20 in another embarrassing batting performance as they slumped to another defeat despite an entertaining unbroken 59 run last wicket stand between Alazzari Joseph and Devendra Bishoo who made 29.
Earlier, Bangladesh elected to bat in overcast conditions and Anamul Haque (0) pushed forward to a ball that left him in the second over from Holder and edged a catch to second slip with just a run on the board.
Rain at 09:50hrs stopped play after 4.4 overs at 10-1 and after a delay of 30 minutes play resumed and the left- handed pair of 29-year-old Tamim and Shakib, who is 31, joined forces in hazy sunshine on a slow outfield and were not separated until the 45th over.
Tamim stroked Russell for three boundaries in an over which cost 13 runs, but when Ashley Nurse was introduced he got the ball to spin past his edge three times and the best batsmen in the Bangladesh side was dropped by the Keeper and surprisingly looked uncomfortable to the off-spinner as the sun returned in all its glory.

Shakib was dropped by Gayle off Joseph who was cut past point for four as the pair brought up the 50 in the 15th over.
Bishoo was given the ball in the 21st over, while Tamim dumped Nurse for the first six of the game.
Tamim raised the 100 partnership and his 42nd fifty (which came from 87 balls) and celebrated the landmarks with an imperious inside-out cover driven boundary off Mohammed and the Windies were already paying for dropping him twice.
Shakib blasted Mohammed for four to post his 40th ODI fifty from 68 balls and the pair was looking well set.
Shakib flicked Holder for four to bring up the 150 before dancing into the Bajan to hit him over mid-off for another boundary as the second wicket stand flourished.
Shakib (82) was dropped at short backward square as Shimron Hetymer floored an easy catch off Bishoo as the ordinary catching continued.
When three away from his 8th ton, Shakib top-edged a sweep off the 31 year-old Bishoo and taken by Hetymer to leave the score on 208-2 before Tamim reached his 10 ODI hundred from 146 ball with seven fours and a six.
Bishoo soon had Sabbir Rahaman (3) stumped at 221-3 before Rahim launched a vicious attack on Holder; taking 21 off of the penultimate over.
Tamim in a belated show of aggression, blasted back-to-sixes off Russell in the final over after their 50-run stand was achieved from just 19 balls before Russell dismissed Rahim in the last over.

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