Bangladesh lost one wicket after another at regular intervals. Bangladesh cricket team lost 5 wickets for 122 runs after being crushed by South Africa’s huge score of 453 runs at St. George’s Park in Port Elizabeth.
Bangladesh finished the second day with 139 runs. Mushfiqur Rahim is a beacon of hope for the Bangladesh team. He is batting with 30 runs from 55 balls. Yasir Ali Rabbi is batting with 6 runs with him.
Bangladesh is under a huge score of 453 runs in the first innings. However, the wicket of St. George’s Park in Port Elizabeth is fairly batting friendly – that is to say. That is why everyone expected that the batsmen of Bangladesh would also be able to build resistance.
But in the beginning he was the sand of hope. Centurion Mahmudul Hasan Joy was dismissed without a run in the first innings of the Durban Test. After scoring a century, he was dismissed for zero in two innings.
Doubts arose after the team lost the winning wicket to Olivier at the head of the team’s 3 runs, is this just the beginning of a scary picture? But no, he has tried to blow the fear of another opener Tamim Iqbal and one down Nazmul Hossain Shant.
Tamim last played Tests in April-May last year. Bangladesh’s best opener in the Test arena again with a break of almost a year. So there are more expectations on him. Tamim Iqbal was leading Bangladesh under the pressure of that expectation.
But suddenly Bangladesh lost the wickets of both Tamim and Shant. Tamim-Shant made a pair of 69 runs. Tamim Iqbal was lbw out by Wayne Maldar for 72 runs. He made 46 runs from 57 balls. Although he could have taken the review if he wanted. As seen in the review, the ball has gone close to the leg stamp. Tamim could have taken the risk. But he did not take.
Wian Maldar took the wicket again with a break of one over. This time he made Nazmul Hossain Shant a victim of LBW. The ball hits the leg by evading the bat. If the umpire does not respond to the bowler’s request, South Africa takes a review. The benefit is theirs. Get out cool. He made 33 runs off 64 balls.
Muminul Haque and Mushfiqur Rahim tried to form a partnership but failed. The pair did not grow. Mominul Haque broke the 15-run partnership after being dismissed for 6 runs. Then Liton Das came down to bat. He also could not last long. Only 11 runs were out.
Wian Maldar took 3 wickets for 15 runs in 6 overs for the Proteas. Duane Olivier took 2 wickets.
Earlier, South Africa scored 453 runs in the first innings. Despite Taizul Islam’s 6 wickets, Keshav Maharaj’s 74-run stormy innings helped the Proteas build the score.
