The second one-day worldwide between Bangladesh and Ireland was referred to as off resulting from rain in Sylhet on Monday after the house facet posted their highest-ever ODI whole. The rain prevented Ireland from beginning their innings after the hosts reached 349-6 because of Mushfiqur Rahim’s century, the quickest ODI ton by a Bangladeshi batsman. Match officers referred to as the sport off shortly after 8:30 pm (2030 GMT) with no prospect of the climate enhancing at Sylhet International Cricket Stadium. Bangladesh, recent from beating England 3-0 in T20s, are 1-0 up within the sequence with one match remaining on Thursday.
Mushfiqur was unbeaten on 100 off simply 60 balls, whereas Najmul Hossain and Liton Das added 73 and 70 runs respectively.
This helped the hosts break their document of 338-8 set in solely the earlier match, which they received by 183 runs.
Sent in to bat first, Bangladesh started cautiously in barely overcast circumstances earlier than Liton and skipper Tamim Iqbal grew in confidence to placed on 42 runs.
Tamim was run out for 23 with a direct throw from Mark Adair earlier than Liton and Najmul added 101 runs for the second wicket.
Graham Hume, Ireland’s most profitable bowler with 3-58, eliminated Shakib Al Hasan (17) and Najmul in successive overs after Curtis Campher took the wicket of Liton.
However, Mushfiqur and Towhid Hridoy then took the bowling by storm so as to add 128 runs in simply 13 overs for the fifth wicket.
Towhid fell for 49 however Mushfiqur continued his terrific batting to deliver up his ninth ODI hundred with a single on the final ball of the innings.
He broke Shakib’s document of a 63-ball hundred towards Zimbabwe in 2009.
Mushfiqur additionally grew to become the third Bangladeshi to succeed in 7,000 ODI runs, after teammates Tamim and Shakib.
The matches are helpful observe on South Asian pitches for Ireland forward of the ODI World Cup in India later this yr, for which they’re but to qualify.
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