Bangladesh u_19 team win the series
Bangladesh U-19 cricketers completed an outstanding comeback to seal the five-match one-day series 3-2 against their Sri Lankan counterparts at Colombo yesterday, after losing the first two matches.
In the final game yesterday, Nazmul Hossain Shanto scored 92, his fourth half-century of the tour, to take the visitors to 212.
Shanto was well supported by Zakir Hasan, who scored a cautious 42 at number five.
In reply the visitors, despite racing to 82 for no loss in the first 19 overs, were dismissed for 198 in 48.5 overs. Bangladesh's spinners scalped seven wickets to buckle the hosts down. 17-year-old Saleh Ahmed took three wickets, while Sanjit Saha and captain Mehedi Hasan Miraz took two each. Pacer Mohammad Saifuddin took two wickets as well.
With 284 runs Shanto was the highest run-scorer of the series, while Sri Lanka pacer Asitha Fernando scalped 13 players to top the wickets column.
"The boys faced problems adjusting to the wicket initially and I guess that's why we lost the first two matches. But after they got an idea they stuck to it and did very well.
"We were ahead of them with regards to our spinners. I was also happy with the way Shanto and Miraz held our middle-order. We may have won but I feel that our pacers and our openers still have a lot of work to do," said team coach Mizanur Rahman.
source: http://www.thedailystar.net/sports
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