Showing posts with label Mashrafe Mortaza. Show all posts
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Thursday, 15 June 2017

India vs Bangladesh Live Cricket Score, Champions Trophy 2017




India won the toss and chose to bowl in the second semi-final against Bangladesh in Edgbaston. This is the first encounter between these two sides in the tournament and Virat Kohli’s side are unchanged. Yuvraj Singh is playing his 300th ODI. The winner of this match will play Pakistan in the final. Catch live cricket score of India vs Bangladesh semi-final here.


18:20 hrs IST: Bangladesh end on 264/7 in 50 overs
18:16 hrs IST: Bhuvneshwar is down! He has hurt his leg in his follow through in the last over. Bangladesh, meanwhile, has crossed 260.
18:11 hrs IST: FOURS! Turning out to be a costly over for India as MOsrtaza goes after Bumrah. BAN 258/7 in 49 overs
18:10 hrs IST: FOUR! Lucky there! Tasking edges to Bhuvneshwar as the flies away to boundary. BAN 248/7 in 48 overs
18:04 hrs IST: FOUR AGAIN! Bumrah Yorker is edged by Mortaza and goes left of Dhoni to boundary. BAN 244/7 in 47 overs
18:01 hrs IST: FOUR! Mortaza gets some crucial runs as his mistimed pull gets the ball over Dhoni’s head towards four. BAN 231/7 in 46 overs
17:57 hrs IST: WICKET! Mahmudullah (21) out. BAN 229/7 (45)
Bumrah strikes again! He comes up with a gem of a yorker and rattles Mahmudullah stumps.
17:51 hrs IST:FOUR! Mashrafe Mortaza goes for the big one against Bhuvneshwar Kumar. BAN 226/6 in 44 overs
17:46 hrs IST: WICKET! Mosaddek Out, BAN 218/6 (42.3)
Bumrah gets his first wicket as Mosaddek mistimes pull is caught y the bowler himself.
17:42 hrs IST: FOUR! Now Mahmudullah reverse sweeps Ashwin for a boundary.
17:38 hrs IST: Bumrah is back in the attack and gets hit for a four by Mosaddek Hossain at mid-off. BAN 212/5 in 41 overs
17:35 hrs IST: Mahmudullah and Mosaddek Hossain have handled the collapse pretty well. BAN 206/5 in 40 overs
17:30 hrs IST: DROPPED! Mahmudullah is let off by Ashwin at third man off Pandya. BAN 197/5 in 39 overs
17:26 hrs IST: Ravindra Jadeja now has 16 wickets . Most by any Indian bowlers in ICC Champions Trophy. BAN 191/5 in 38 overs
17:24 hrs IST: FOUR! Mosaddek cuts Jadeja to ease the pressure a bit. BAN 188/5 in 37 overs
17:19 hrs IST: WICKET!Rahim (61) out! BAN 179/5 in 35.2 overs
Bangladesh feels the heat as Jadhav gets his second. Rahim tries to take the spinner through mid-wicket but is caught by Kohli, who is excited and is not shy of expressing it. he makes a funny face and the crowd the love it.
17:13 hrs IST: WICKET! Shakib (15) departs! BAN 177/4 in 34.2 overs
Jadeja gets his first wicket as Shakib tries got for a cut against the spinner and is caught behind by Dhoni. A brilliant attempt.
17:10 hrs IST: FOUR! A boundary after a long time for Bangladesh. Shakib slashes Jadeja for a four. BAN 175/3 in 33 overs
17:07 hrs IST: Jadhav continues from the other end. He has essayed the role of the third spinner pretty well. But Bangladesh have a deep batting line-up. BAN 167/3 in 32 overs

17:04 hrs IST: Jadeja has been miserly so far. He has given 33 runs in seven overs so far. BAN 164/3 in 33 overs
17:00 hrs IST: The drying up of boundaries mounted the pressure on Bangladesh. Still, Tamim looked set but a wild drive did him in. Shakib Al Hasan is the new batsman at the crease. BAN 161/3 in 30 overs
16:57 hrs IST: WICKET! Tamim Iqbal (70) departs! BAN 154/3 in 28 overs
The set batsman goes a wild drive but misses Kedar Jadhav’s line. He tried to take him over mid-wicket but is bowled.
16:54 hrs IST: The Edgbaston is basking in sunlight after a long time. No boundary for Bangladesh in the last three overs.
16:50 hrs IST:Rahim scores 26th half-century as Bangladesh reach 150-run mark in 26.2 overs
16:46 hrs IST: Jadeja bowls his fourth over as Mushfiqur Rahim is just four runs short of his half-century. BAN 142/2 in 25 overs
16:42 hrs IST: Tamim and Rahim’s stand has now crossed 100 run mark. They have handled the spin duo Ashwin and Jadeja pretty well. BAN 137/2 in 24 overs
16:37 hrs IST: THREE STRAIGHT FOURS! Tamim is on fire! He goes after Ashwin. First the left-hander cuts four a boundary, then hits through the covers and then flicks towards leg. BAN 123/2 in 22 overs
16:34 hrs IST:HUGE APPEAL! Rahim goes for a slog sweep and misses the line of the delivery as Dhoni removes the bails. Replays show he was inside the line. BAN 110/2 in 21 overs
16:32 hrs IST: Ashwin gives away just one run! BAN 105/2 in 20 overs
16:31 hrs IST: FOUR! Tamim gets to his 38th half-century with a reverse sweep off Jadeja. BAN 104/2 in 19 overs
16:26 hrs IST: Raviundra Jadeja into the attack now.
16:24 hrs IST: Ashwin continues from the other end. This partnership is like a thorn for India. The earlier they get one of them out, the better for Kohli’s men. BAN 96/2 in 18 overs
16:20 hrs IST: It’s the drinks break. Both teams have something to take from the first hour of play. Bangladesh have shown the confidence and playing to a plan.
16:18 hrs IST: SIX! Tamim Iqbal takes Pandya over square leg. He has moved to his 40s. BAN 90/2 in 17 overs
16:16 hrs IST: FOUR! Tamim directs Ashwin delivery towards third man!. This is intelligent batting by Bangladesh’s most senior batsman. BAN 83/2 in 16 overs
16:12 hrs IST: Ashwin starts his second over on a poor note as he bowls a wide. He covers quickly and goves away just three more runs. BAN 66/2 in 14 overs
16:08 hrs IST: Meanwhile, India’s squad for West Indies limited overs series has been announced. Kuldeep Yadav and Rishabh Pant included in the squad while Rohit Sharma and Jasprit Bumrah have been rested.
16:04 hrs IST: Hardik Pandya gets an inside edge off Tamim, as the ball hits the stumps. No danger, however, as it’s called a no ball. Tough luck! BAN 62/2 in 13 overs
16:02 hrs IST: Hardik Pandya comes from the other end. His no ball gives Bangladesh a free-hit. Only two runs from it .  
16:00 hrs IST: First bowling change for India! R Ashwin comes in to bowl the 12th over and gives away two runs. BAN 49/2 in 12 overs.
15:58 hrs IST: Bhuvneshwar continues from the other end and gives away just one run. BAN 47/2 in 11 overs
15:57 hrs IST: Bumrah bowls another tight over. He is keeping up the pressure from one end. BAN 46/2 in 10 overs
15:48 hrs IST: RAHIM ON FIRE! The ex-skipper continues his attack as he gets straight fours. First he produces an elegant cover drive and then cuts through point. BAN 45/2 in 9 overs
15:47 hrs IST: THAT WILL HURT! Rahim goes for a wild heave against Bhuvneshwar, the ball gets an inside edge but misses the stumps and goes past Dhoni for a boundary.
15:41 hrs IST: Mushfiqur Rahim is the new batsman. This partnership will be crucial for Bangladesh. The duo is their most in-form batsmen. Bumrah gives away just one run in the eighth over. BAN 32/2 in 8 overs
15:39 hrs IST: WICKET!Sabbir (19) gone! BAN 31/2 in 6.5 overs
Bhuvneshwar strikes again! Sabbir goes for a cut against a wide delivery and is caught by Ravindra Jadeja at backward point.
15:35 hrs IST: A Maiden over after a long time. Bumrah’s over will give Kohli’s India breathing space after the mayhem by Sabbir. BAN 31/1 in 6 overs
15:33 hrs IST: Bangladesh have so far got boundaries in every over except the first one. Indian pacers need to find a quick answer to their onslaught.
15:31 hrs IST: FOUR! Bhuvneshwar gets a leading edge off Tamim. But the ball flies away from the fielder at second slip. Bangladesh fans are rejoicing. BAN 31/1 in 5 overs
15:27 hrs IST:FOUR AGAIN! Sabbir is ripping apart the Indian pacers. He is taking full advantage of the powerplay overs as there are no fielders in the outfield. This time he hits over long off against Bumrah. BAN 26/1 in 4 overs
15:22 hrs IST:MORE FOURS! Rahman is essaying his pinch-hitting role pretty well. First he lofts Bhuvneshwar over mid-off and then gets another boundary with a beautiful cover drive. BAN 21/1 in 3 overs
15:16 hrs IST: FOURS! Bangladesh makes a strong comeback Tamim and No.3 Sabbir Rahman goes after Jasprit Bumrah. First Tamim directs the ball towards square leg and then Rahman gets off the blocks with an elegant square drive and then BAN 11/1 in 2 overs

15:14 hrs IST: WICKET! Soumya Sarkar gone. BAN 1/1 in 1 over
Bhuvneshwar Kumar rattles Soumya stumps.


15:12 hrs IST: Bangladesh get off the mark as Tamim Iqbal takes a single off Bhuvneshwar. The Indian pacer is bowling a tight line!
15:11 hrs IST: Action starts!

15:03 Time for the national anthems. India and Banglesh, both anthems composed by Rabindranath Tagore. Huge moment for Bangladesh and their legions of fans.


Bangladesh: Tamim Iqbal, Soumya Sarkar, Sabbir Rahman, Mushfiqur Rahim(w), Shakib Al Hasan, Mahmudullah, Mosaddek Hossain, Mashrafe Mortaza(c), Taskin Ahmed, Rubel Hossain, Mustafizur Rahman
India: Rohit Sharma, Shikhar Dhawan, Virat Kohli(c), Yuvraj Singh, MS Dhoni(w), Hardik Pandya, Kedar Jadhav, Ravindra Jadeja, Ravichandran Ashwin, Bhuvneshwar Kumar, Jasprit Bumrah

Tuesday, 6 June 2017

Smith says it's win or bust for Australia against England



"I guess we've just got to beat England." That was Steven Smith's matter-of-fact conclusion after Australia were denied an almost-certain victory over Bangladesh at The Oval by the English weather. Having been saved from a potential defeat to New Zealand at Edgbaston in their previous match, Australia were left with two points from two games - but with destiny still in their own hands ahead of their last Group A fixture against England on Saturday in Birmingham.

Smith was frustrated but understanding after rain ruined Australia's attempts to chase a target of less than four an over, which was set up by Mitchell Starc's four-wicket haul that saw Bangladesh dismissed for 182 in 44.3 overs.

"Disappointing not to get a result but we can't do much about the weather," he said. "The equation is pretty simple for us now. We have to beat England and I think then we're through."

This fixture was the first day-night match of the tournament but rain was forecast to arrive during the evening, which it duly did with Australia four overs short of the 20 required to constitute an officially completed game. Although the showers did relent long enough to allow the umpires, Nigel Llong and Chris Gaffaney, to inspect at 8 pm and schedule a restart for 8.30 pm - with seven overs lost - rainfall returned almost immediately, causing the groundstaff to cover the pitch again, to desultory cheers from the remaining Bangladesh fans in The Oval.

Australia's sense of frustration was compounded by the fact that at 83 for 1, they were well ahead of the 20-over Duckworth-Lewis-Stern par score of 48 despite having only batted 16 overs. Smith had blocked five balls from Mashrafe Mortaza with rain falling as he tried to hurry the innings through but, with the umpires appearing to signal for drinks, the downfall intensified and the players were taken off for the first time.

Although the Bangladesh innings finished early, at around 4.40 pm, play couldn't restart until 5.30 pm due to drizzle during the interval. The umpires then took the players off at 6.43 pm, meaning Bangladesh were only slightly behind the required rate of four-minute overs. The rain then stopped for around 45 minutes later in the evening but Llong and Gaffaney felt there was too much mopping up required to get the game going straight away and any chance to get in the four overs required slipped by.

"A little bit frustrating," Smith said of that missed opportunity. "The groundsmen perhaps could have shown a bit more urgency, being a big tournament, but I think they did the best job they could and the umpires said it was an 8.30 pm start, so you've got to do what they say.

"Of course I didn't want to go off, I was happy to keep batting through the rain. But the umpires are there to make a decision and I think drinks was at the end of that over, which probably didn't help. If the game had just carried on, perhaps they may have had a different opinion. But to be fair it was raining reasonably hard when we came off."

The no result means that Australia will have to beat England to go through to the semi-final. However, if that match is also washed out they could still theoretically join England in going through with three points from three no results - if New Zealand's remaining two fixtures against England and Bangladesh are also rained out - due to having a higher seeding than all the other teams in the group. The high chance of rain affecting the England-New Zealand match in Cardiff on Tuesday may add to the intrigue.

The computation for Bangladesh is slightly simpler, with a win required against New Zealand at Cardiff on Friday in their final match to stay in the hunt for a semi-final spot. A win over New Zealand combined with a pair of England wins over Australia and New Zealand would guarantee Bangladesh a place in the semis. Yet, Bangladesh could still miss out on the semi-finals on three points, having suffered a hit to their run rate in defeat to England last week. They would also miss out, regardless of a win over New Zealand, if England beat New Zealand on Tuesday and Australia beat England on Saturday in which case both England and Australia would end the group stage on four points.

Mashrafe Mortaza, Bangladesh's captain, was nevertheless happy that his team remained alive in the tournament and referenced the point gained from a similar abandonment against Australia in the 2015 World Cup - when they qualified from the group stage at England's expense - as reason to be optimistic.

"I can remember in the 2015 World Cup, we got one point from Australia and it really helped us go through," he said. "This time we've got a straight chance, even though we have to beat New Zealand. So our job is to play hard against New Zealand and you never know.

"If you look at today's match, I think Australia was far ahead of us. But in the last match, against New Zealand, I think Australia were in the same position. You can't do anything with the weather so, as I said, both teams are now in the situation where Australia has to win against England and we have a great chance to beat New Zealand and go through."


Late slowdown cost Bangladesh - Mashrafe



Among Mashrafe Mortaza, Tamim Iqbal and Mushfiqur Rahim, there was unanimity on one point: Bangladesh should have scored 20 more runs. England, through Joe Root, Alex Hales and Eoin Morgan, ended up cantering to their 306-run target.

Two of them, Tamim and Mushfiqur, triggered the slowdown at a time when they could have instead pushed harder at the England bowlers. The third-wicket pair, who added 166 runs, fell to Liam Plunkett off consecutive deliveries in the 45th over, after which Shakib Al Hasan, Sabbir Rahman, Mahmudullah and Mosaddek Hossain could manage only five boundaries between them in the remaining 32 deliveries.

Perhaps seniority was given preference after Tamim and Mushfiqur got out as it looked far more natural for Mahmudullah to get most of the remaining overs instead of Shakib or Sabbir, who aren't as well-versed in slogging. Mahmudullah has been doing this role quite well since 2016, spreading out from his T20 exploits into the ODI arena. The latest example was the ODI against New Zealand last week, when he aced the chase in Clontarf. The Bangladesh team management decided otherwise.

Mashrafe said that it was a problem when two set batsmen, Tamim having scored 128 and Mushfiqur 79, got out in quick succession. "After Tamim got out, Mushfiqur fell the next ball," he said. "It was the problem for us. We still had Shakib, Mahmudullah and Sabbir but we couldn't really go through those last six overs. I think we are 20 to 30 runs short, especially on that sort of wicket."

Mushfiqur, who had struck eight fours in his 72-ball knock, said that he didn't execute the shot well, ending up giving a simple catch to long-on. But he said that had the subsequent batsmen contributed, a bigger total would have been still possible.

"I knew that on that track you can't get bogged down in the later part of an over," he said. "I knew we needed a 330-plus total. Tamim got out and then the next ball I didn't execute it well. If the other batsmen could have chipped in, in the last few overs, maybe it would have been a different ball game."

Tamim, who made a fabulous ninth ODI hundred, said that he put the bad ball away quite easily after riding out the initial two-paced nature of the pitch. "When we started the wicket was two-paced: once it was zipping and at other times it was coming slow," he said. "So it was not that easy to hit big shots or hit down the line. But after the 10th over the wicket started to get better. And with a quick outfield I just batted normally.

"I did not want to do anything special. I was taking one ball at a time. What I did today was I didn't miss any boundary opportunity. Whenever I got the bad ball I made sure it went for a four or six."

Tamim suggested that the bowling must be better planned to defend any total. Bangladesh chose to play the extra batsmen and had to rely on Mosaddek, Soumya Sarkar and Sabbir Rahman to make up the overs. "The lesson is that 300 is not enough," he said. "But whatever we score, if we don't bowl to our plans then 400 is not enough too. We need to identify the mistakes we did while bowling and we need to rectify them and make sure next game we are ready. We just need to sit down and think where we could have done things differently."