Desk Report,
Big win for Bangladesh youth before final
Bangladesh U-19 team is going into the final with confidence of victory. After defeating their title rivals South Africa U-19 in the previous match, they defeated hosts Zimbabwe by 160 runs today.
Big win for Bangladesh youth before final
Despite losing the toss in Harare, Bangladesh batted first and scored 284 runs for the loss of 6 wickets. Later, the bowlers bundled out Zimbabwe, who came out to chase, for 124 runs in 35 overs. In Bangladesh’s batting, after opener Jawad Abrar returned for 5 runs at the beginning, Rifat Baig and captain Azizul Hakim formed a partnership to take the team ahead. The 112-run partnership was broken when Azizul was dismissed for 34 runs off 65 balls. Opener Rifat scored a half-century. He moved towards a century but was dismissed for 77 runs off 78 balls, including 10 fours and 1 six. After his departure, Rizan Hossain (30) and Abdullah (37) took the team ahead. In the end, Farid Hasan and Debashish Debar’s partnership took Bangladesh past 250 runs. Both remained unbeaten after adding 51 runs for the seventh wicket. Farid scored 38 runs off 44 balls and Debashish scored 34 runs in a whirlwind innings of 13 balls with 2 sixes and 1 four. Shelton Mazvitorera took 3 wickets for Zimbabwe. Bangladesh, who were chasing big runs, were held back from the start. After losing three wickets for 16 runs, Benny Juze and Marshall Mashava put on a 43-run partnership. Mashava was caught by Jawad off Azizul’s ball and the team faced another collapse. This was the highest partnership for Zimbabwe.
Juze, who scored 47 runs off 88 balls, is the highest run-getter for the team. In the end, Mitchell Blighout played an innings of 30 runs off 34 balls, but could not take the team even close to victory. Zimbabwe Under-19 team was all out for 124 runs after playing 35 overs. Azizul and Rizan took 3 wickets for Bangladesh.
Bangladesh’s opponent in the final tomorrow is South Africa.
