- BATSMENRBM4s6sSR0.1 Would you believe it? Mashrafe Mortaza cleans up Wasim Jaffer! First-ball duck! The off stump has gone for a jog. Super start from Bangladesh. It landed on a perfect length, outside the off stump and cut back in. Jaffer had planted his left foot across and shouldered his arms and looked in shock as the ball jagged back in and crashed into the off stump. Mortaza went on a celebratory run, the crowd cleared their throats and what a fab start for Bangladesh. Rahul Dravid walks in early. Yet again. 0/131.2 Mortaza gets the reward for persistence. He hit the deck short of length, just outside off stump and it shaped away a touch and Karthik tried to pull it from there and ended up ballooning it to mid-off. Karthik falls after a well-made fifty. Remember he is playing purely as a batsman. He would be a touch disappointed with the shot selection there but Mortaza won't be complaining. He has kept it on and around off stump this spell, at times cutting it back in, making it hold the line. 124/233.1 And hello?! Shahadat strikes immediately. Dravid falls and Bangladeshi fielders go in a huddle. Done in by the extra bounce. Short of length, outside off stump and it kicks up, Dravid goes for a cut, is surprised by the extra bounce and nicks it behind to Masud, the wicketkeeper. Two quick wickets and Bangladesh are back into the game. Sourav Ganguly walks in. 132/391.5 Like Ganguly, like Karthik, Tendulkar falls pulling a slightly short delivery that was going outside the off stump. Shahadat strikes. It was short in length and outside the off stump and Tendulkar tried to fetch it from there and presents a dolly at extra cover. 366/584.2 And he is gone now! It landed short, moved across Ganguly who went for a pull shot from outside off and it ballooned up towards mid-off. It didn't kick up as much as Ganguly might have anticipated; It was below chest-high. More than the length, he was done in by the decision to go for a pull shot to a delivery outside the off stump. 321/498.5 slashed to point and that's also the declaration, wide outside off stump, Dhoni cuts hard off the open face of the bat, doesnt quite get the desired placement to whack it over point, easy catch on waist height to Javed Omar 387/894.3 Powar is cleaned up. Ran down the track, had a wild heave at a delivery on the off stump, made no contact but the ball did with the off stump. India slip to 381 for 6. 381/696.6 on the middle line, defended to the on side 384/697.3 the faintest of edges... Shahadat holds the length back a little outside off, Zaheer is tempted to poke at it, catches the edge and an easy take for Mashud 384/7Extras24 (b 2, lb 8, nb 12, w 2)TOTAL387/8d (98.5 Overs, RR: 3.91)Did not bat: RP SinghFall of wickets: 1-0 (Wasim Jaffer, 0.1 ov), 2-124 (Dinesh Karthik, 31.2 ov), 3-132 (Rahul Dravid, 33.1 ov), 4-321 (Sourav Ganguly, 84.2 ov), 5-366 (Sachin Tendulkar, 91.5 ov), 6-381 (Ramesh Powar, 94.3 ov), 6-384* (Anil Kumble, retired not out ), 7-384 (Zaheer Khan, 97.3 ov), 8-387 (MS Dhoni, 98.5 ov)
Bowling O M R W Econ WD NB Mashrafe Mortaza 24.5 5 97 4 3.90 1 5 Shahadat Hossain 18 1 76 3 4.22 1 2 Mohammad Rafique 24 3 99 1 4.12 0 0 Enamul Haque jnr 15 0 59 0 3.93 0 4 Shakib Al Hasan 13 2 29 0 2.23 0 0 Mohammad Ashraful 1 0 5 0 5.00 0 0 Rajin Saleh 3 1 12 0 4.00 0 0
- BATSMENRBM4s6sSR5.3 pitched on leg stump, cutting in, Omar gets on the backfoot, tries to turn it away to the on side, gets trapped in front of the stumps, easy decision for the umpire 20/115.1 success for Zaheer at last, pitched up just outside off stump, Nafees goes for the drive, fails to get the full face of the bat on it as the ball clips the edge and flies to Tendulkar at second slip who dives to his right, picks it with both hands 47/35.5 superb take at slip! short and slashed hard, Bashar tries to whack it over the slips and Tendulkar hangs on to it with ease at second slip 20/237.5 short of a length and a touch wide outside off, Saleh cuts hard but gets the placement wrong, Ganguly dives in front at point and pulls off a neat take 116/622.3 awesome catch! RP puts his back into one, getting it to lift a bit more than expected off a shorter length, Ashraful looks to keep it down but ends up playing it off the shoulder of the bat, in the air towards gully, where an acrobatic Karthik flings himself full stretch to his left and plucks a beauty! 58/436.6 played on, VRV maintains the same stump to stump line and doesn't give Saqibul any room to cut, ends up chopping it onto the stumps 114/542.5 VRV goes for the inswinging yorker and succeeds, Mashud tries to flick it away and gets struck on the pads, however replays show that he may have hit it first and there are doubts as to whether it would have gone on to hit the stumps as well 122/768.2 yorker fired in on off stump, Mortaza barely had time to to dig that out as the ball swung in and pegged the off stump back 238/1047.4 tossed up and Rafique goes for another slog, misses, strays out of his crease, Dhoni gathers it and whips off the bails in a flash, Nadir Shah, the third umpire, is called in, Rafique's foot was on the line but he failed to get his bat down, straightforward decision in the end 149/865.5 the googly again! pitched just outside off, turning in, Hossain was trapped at the crease as he went back to a delivery he really should have played on the front foot 226/9Extras5 (lb 1, nb 1, w 3)TOTAL238 all out (68.2 Overs, RR: 3.48)Fall of wickets: 1-20 (Javed Omer, 5.3 ov), 2-20 (Habibul Bashar, 5.5 ov), 3-47 (Shahriar Nafees, 15.1 ov), 4-58 (Mohammad Ashraful, 22.3 ov), 5-114 (Shakib Al Hasan, 36.6 ov), 6-116 (Rajin Saleh, 37.5 ov), 7-122 (Khaled Mashud, 42.5 ov), 8-149 (Mohammad Rafique, 47.4 ov), 9-226 (Shahadat Hossain, 65.5 ov), 10-238 (Mashrafe Mortaza, 68.2 ov)
Bowling O M R W Econ WD NB Z Khan 15 1 63 1 4.20 0 0 RP Singh 17 2 45 3 2.64 1 0 VRV Singh 15.2 5 48 3 3.13 0 0 RR Powar 17 1 66 2 3.88 0 1 SR Tendulkar 4 0 15 1 3.75 0 0
- BATSMENRBM4s6sSR0.3 short of a length, cutting in after pitching, Jaffer goes for the pull, gets the top edge and Bashar at mid-on takes it easily running to his right 0/116.5 caught at square leg! Karthik was going for his shots and this time he top-edges an attempted pull straight to square leg where Nafees took an easy but well-judged catch. The ball was there to be pulled but it hit high on the bat and Karthik's bottom hand came off the bat. 60/34.2 Stunning catch! good length on middle and leg, Dravid tries to turn it to the on side, Rajin Saleh at square leg throws himself to his right and pulls off a stunner , airborne, with one hand 6/217.4 he's bowled him! Rafique fired it in on off stump, Tendulkar got down on one knee and tried to play the slog sweep, he got an edge on to it and dragged it back on to leg stump 64/421.2 and another one goes! Short ball from Rafique, Ganguly flicks in the air towards deep backward square leg where Nafees, once again, judges a low catch perfectly, India lose another wicket while going for fast runs 78/523.1 Rafique strikes once more, Powar charges down the track and ends up yorking himself and gets beaten, Mashud fumbles the take but Powar is so far down the track and so slow in getting back that Mashud has time to recover and whips off the bails with Powar so far out that no referral is needed 93/6Extras7 (lb 1, nb 4, w 2)TOTAL100/6d (24 Overs, RR: 4.16)Fall of wickets: 1-0 (Wasim Jaffer, 0.3 ov), 2-6 (Rahul Dravid, 4.2 ov), 3-60 (Dinesh Karthik, 16.5 ov), 4-64 (Sachin Tendulkar, 17.4 ov), 5-78 (Sourav Ganguly, 21.2 ov), 6-93 (Ramesh Powar, 23.1 ov)
Bowling O M R W Econ WD NB Shahadat Hossain 7 3 30 2 4.28 1 0 Mashrafe Mortaza 8 1 36 1 4.50 1 3 Mohammad Rafique 8 0 27 3 3.37 0 0 Enamul Haque jnr 1 0 6 0 6.00 0 1
- BATSMENRBM4s6sSR3.1 RP Singh gets a lucky break! That was a poor ball, angled down leg side, Nafees tried to flick but fell over a little and feathered a nick to Dhoni who moved quickly to his right and took a smart catch 12/120.2 Bashar lofts Powar again and this time RP Singh takes a comfortable catch at wide long on, Bashar charged Powar once more and went through with the shot even though he wasn't to the pitch of the ball, Rp Singh ran in from the fence and took the easiest of catches 82/2Extras7 (lb 6, nb 1)TOTAL104/2 (28 Overs, RR: 3.71, 120 minutes)Fall of wickets: 1-12 (Shahriar Nafees, 3.1 ov), 2-82 (Habibul Bashar, 20.2 ov)
Bowling O M R W Econ WD NB Z Khan 7 0 24 0 3.42 0 0 RP Singh 6 0 29 1 4.83 0 0 VRV Singh 5 1 22 0 4.40 0 1 RR Powar 7 2 16 1 2.28 0 0 SR Tendulkar 3 0 7 0 2.33 0 0
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- Fri, 18 May - day 1 - India 1st innings 295/3 (SR Tendulkar 80*, SC Ganguly 82*, 77 ov)
- Sat, 19 May - day 2 - India 1st innings 384/6 (MS Dhoni 36*, 97 ov)
- Sun, 20 May - day 3 - no play
- Mon, 21 May - day 4 - India 2nd innings 44/2 (KD Karthik 15*, SR Tendulkar 24*, 14 ov)
- Tue, 22 May - day 5 - Bangladesh 2nd innings 104/2 (28 ov) - end of match
Match Notes
- Wet Ground: India - 44/2 in 14.0 overs (KD Karthik 15, SR Tendulkar 24)
- Lunch: India - 44/2 in 14.1 overs (KD Karthik 15, SR Tendulkar 24)
- India: 50 runs in 14.5 overs (92 balls), Extras 4
- 3rd Wicket: 50 runs in 74 balls (KD Karthik 17, SR Tendulkar 28, Ex 5)
- India: 100 runs in 23.6 overs (150 balls), Extras 7
- Bangladesh 2nd innings
- Tea: Bangladesh - 32/1 in 7.0 overs (Javed Omar 15, Habibul Bashar 11)
- Bangladesh: 50 runs in 9.2 overs (56 balls), Extras 6
- 2nd Wicket: 50 runs in 69 balls (Javed Omar 26, Habibul Bashar 23, Ex 1)
- Bangladesh: 100 runs in 25.3 overs (154 balls), Extras 7
- Javed Omar: 50 off 75 balls (8 x 4, 1 x 6)
- Bangladesh 1st innings
- Innings Break: Bangladesh - 0/0
- Drinks: Bangladesh - 40/2 in 11.0 overs (Shahriar Nafees 25, Rajin Saleh 5)
- Rain: Bangladesh - 49/3 in 18.3 overs (Rajin Saleh 5, Mohammad Ashraful 2)
- Lunch: Bangladesh - 49/3 in 18.3 overs (Rajin Saleh 5, Mohammad Ashraful 2)
- Bangladesh: 50 runs in 18.6 overs (115 balls), Extras 3
- Bangladesh: 100 runs in 34.6 overs (211 balls), Extras 3
- 5th Wicket: 50 runs in 81 balls (Rajin Saleh 29, Saqibul Hasan 23, Ex 0)
- Drinks: Bangladesh - 114/5 in 37.0 overs (Rajin Saleh 40)
- Bangladesh: 150 runs in 48.5 overs (294 balls), Extras 3
- Tea: Bangladesh - 160/8 in 53.0 overs (Mashrafe Mortaza 33, Shahadat Hossain 1)
- 9th Wicket: 50 runs in 71 balls (Mashrafe Mortaza 25, Shahadat Hossain 23, Ex 2)
- Bangladesh: 200 runs in 59.3 overs (359 balls), Extras 5
- Mashrafe Mortaza: 50 off 62 balls (5 x 4, 2 x 6)
- Drinks: Bangladesh - 227/9 in 67.0 overs (Mashrafe Mortaza 68, Enamul Haque 0)
- Innings Break: Bangladesh - 238/10 in 68.2 overs (Enamul Haque 0)
- India 2nd innings
- End Of Day: India - 44/2 in 14.0 overs (KD Karthik 15, SR Tendulkar 24)
- Rain: India - 384/6 in 97.0 overs (MS Dhoni 36)
- End Of Day: India - 384/6 in 97.0 overs (MS Dhoni 36)
- Rain: India - 295/3 in 77.0 overs (SR Tendulkar 80, SC Ganguly 82)
- Wet Ground: India - 295/3 in 77.0 overs (SR Tendulkar 80, SC Ganguly 82)
- India: 300 runs in 79.5 overs (489 balls), Extras 17
- New Ball Taken: India 310/3 after 81.1 overs (SR Tendulkar 84, SC Ganguly 92)
- SC Ganguly: 100 off 163 balls (13 x 4, 2 x 6)
- India: 350 runs in 89.2 overs (547 balls), Extras 21
- SR Tendulkar: 100 off 167 balls (9 x 4)
- Bad Light: India - 384/6 in 97.0 overs (MS Dhoni 36)
- End Of Day: India - 384/6 in 97.0 overs (MS Dhoni 36)
- A Kumble retired hurt at 384/6 (1, 96.6 overs)
- India 1st innings
- India: 50 runs in 8.1 overs (51 balls), Extras 3
- 2nd Wicket: 50 runs in 50 balls (KD Karthik 22, R Dravid 25, Ex 3)
- Drinks: India - 67/1 in 11.0 overs (KD Karthik 30, R Dravid 33)
- India: 100 runs in 20.2 overs (128 balls), Extras 7
- R Dravid: 50 off 59 balls (10 x 4)
- 2nd Wicket: 100 runs in 127 balls (KD Karthik 44, R Dravid 50, Ex 7)
- KD Karthik: 50 off 77 balls (7 x 4)
- Lunch: India - 113/1 in 25.0 overs (KD Karthik 54, R Dravid 52)
- Rain: India - 113/1 in 25.0 overs (KD Karthik 54, R Dravid 52)
- Drinks: India - 143/3 in 36.0 overs (SR Tendulkar 8, SC Ganguly 6)
- India: 150 runs in 36.5 overs (231 balls), Extras 12
- Tea: India - 181/3 in 46.0 overs (SR Tendulkar 35, SC Ganguly 16)
- 4th Wicket: 50 runs in 79 balls (SR Tendulkar 32, SC Ganguly 16, Ex 3)
- India: 200 runs in 49.3 overs (307 balls), Extras 13
- SR Tendulkar: 50 off 75 balls (6 x 4)
- 4th Wicket: 100 runs in 158 balls (SR Tendulkar 54, SC Ganguly 42, Ex 4)
- SC Ganguly: 50 off 85 balls (6 x 4, 1 x 6)
- India: 250 runs in 62.6 overs (388 balls), Extras 14
- Drinks: India - 252/3 in 63.0 overs (SR Tendulkar 61, SC Ganguly 60)
- 4th Wicket: 150 runs in 235 balls (SR Tendulkar 71, SC Ganguly 73, Ex 6)
- Bad Light: India - 295/3 in 77.0 overs (SR Tendulkar 80, SC Ganguly 82)
- End Of Day: India - 295/3 in 77.0 overs (SR Tendulkar 80, SC Ganguly 82)
India tour of Bangladesh 2007 News
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Not the kind of domination India expected
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Family ties
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Bashar gives up one-day captaincy
Habibul Bashar, the Bangladesh captain, has announced that he will step down as skipper of the one-day team with immediate effect.
'The past is behind us' - Dravid
Rahul Dravid took the Indian series win against Bangladesh in perspective and refused to get too excited about the result