The Bangladesh team created a literal example of a falling wicket. The batsmen of Bangladesh seemed to be coming back to the pavilion to play for the target of 264 runs thrown by South Africa. After one wicket fell, it didn’t take long for another to go.
On the fifth day of the Durban Test, Bangladesh lost 6 wickets in just 55 minutes, adding 53 runs to the scoreboard. Bangladesh’s dream was shattered by a huge defeat of 220 runs on a mission to make history. At the same time there has been an embarrassing record.
Bangladesh have never been bowled out for so few runs in the fourth innings of a Test match. Bangladesh were bowled out for 90 in the 424-run target set by the hosts in the Potchefstroom Test of the 2016 tour of South Africa.
So far, this was the record of the lowest team collection of Bangladesh in the fourth innings. Mominul Haque’s team rewrote that embarrassing record after five years in South Africa. This time they stopped at only 53 runs for the target of 264 runs.
Needless to say, in the fourth innings of the match, Bangladesh has been all out for less than 100 runs twice. This time Keshav Maharaj took 6 wickets for only 32 runs on the way to get the Tigers all out for 53 runs. This is the best bowling record in the fourth innings against Bangladesh.
All in all, this 53 runs of the Durban Test is the second lowest team collection of Bangladesh in Test cricket. The record for the lowest collection in the history of Bangladesh was all out for 43 runs in the 2016 West Indies tour. With this, Bangladesh was all out below 100 runs for 12 times.
Despite being the second lowest collection in their history, Bangladesh is ashamed of having the lowest team collection at Kingsmead in Durban. India were all out for 6 runs in this ground on December 1996. After 26 years, Bangladesh was reduced to 53 runs by releasing them.