Rare ODI win for Zimbabwe over Bangladesh

Zimbabwe beat Bangladesh for the first time in over nine years in one-day internationals in one of their biggest comebacks.

Bangladesh struck first, posting an impressive 2-303 at Harare Sports Club. However, Zimbabwe responded with his 5-307, reaching the target with 10 balls to go and making his third highest chase in the tie.

Zimbabwe lost the opening game in the first two overs, going 3-62, but Innocent Kaia and Sikandar Raza scored in the same overs for centuries, clinching the team in the first of three ODIs. led to victory.

Even after 19 straight losses to Bangladesh, the win was no surprise. Zimbabwe won his previous T20 series with a 2-1 win for him, the first time he faced a full ICC squad.

Playing the fourth ODI, Kaia accidentally ran out Wesley Madvia while attempting a second single, dropping Zimbabwe to 362 in 14 overs.

However, he and Raza set about repairing the damage and counterattacking in the 115th ODI.

Kaia was dropped for 68 and 74 in the same over, reaching his first 100 on 115 pitches. Two balls later, Raza scored 400 balls from his 81. This is his third fastest in Zimbabwe.

It was the second time two Zimbabwean batsmen had scored in the same ODI in centuries. The last time was in 2004.

A great partnership ended 4-254, with Kaia trying to slog Mosadek Hossain and short fine leg on the top edge. His 110 of his 122 pitches included 11 bounds and his two sixes.

Raza closed out the match by pulling a Mosadeq delivery mid-wicket in six overs. Raza had 135 outs on 109 pitches. He hit his eight boundaries and his six sixes.

Bangladesh’s innings looked like a winner.

It was the first time in eight years that the top four hitters had 50 runs in an inning. But they batted relatively conservatively, considering all the wickets they had in their hands, and in the end he had three overs and he had only two boundaries.

Captain and opener Tamim Iqbal is the only Bangladeshi batsman to score over 7,000 ODI runs, quickly making 62 appearances after surpassing 8,000.

Liton Das retired with an injury on 81 of 89 balls when he performed a single and pulled his hamstring. He has been ruled out for the rest of the series and could be sidelined for a month, putting his Asian Cup prospects in doubt.

After 40 overs they went 1-213 for a big scoring setup.

But Anamul Haque was pushed deep with 62 off 73 and Mushfiqur Rahim finished with 52 instead of 49.