26 Sports Tuesday, November 13, 2018 Mushfiqur Rahim’s record innings put Bangladesh on top Zimbabwe, ahead in the two-match tournament 1-0 DHAKA: Mushfiqur Rahim became the first wicket- SCOREBOARD keeper-batsman in history to score two double hun- dreds in Tests as Bangladesh built a strong total in the Scoreboard at stumps on day two of the second Test second Test against Zimbabwe in Dhaka yesterday. between Bangladesh and Zimbabwe at the Sher-e- Mushfiqur hit an unbeaten 219 to help Bangladesh Bangla National Stadium in Dhaka yesterday: declare their first innings at 522-7 an hour into the final session, before the hosts reduced Zimbabwe to 25 for Bangladesh 1st innings (overnight 303-5) one at stumps on the second day. Taijul Islam removed Liton Das c Mavuta b Jarvis 9 Hamilton Masakadza for 14 after an edge flew to Imrul Kayes c Chakabva b Jarvis 0 Mehidy Hasan at first slip for Bangladesh’s first break- Mominul Haque c Chari b Chatara 161 through. Masakadza was earlier spared when he was Mohammad Mithun c Taylor b Jarvis 0 dropped at seven by Ariful Haque at first slip off the Mushfiqur Rahim not out 219 bowling of debutant Khaled Ahmed. Brian Chari, 10 not Taijul Islam c Chakabva b Jarvis 4 out, and nightwatchman Donald Tiripano (naught) pre- Mahmudullah c Chakabva b Jarvis 36 vented further damage. Ariful Haque c Chari b Jarvis 4 Zimbabwe, ahead in the two-match tournament 1-0, Mehidy Hasan not out 68 needs at least a draw to win their first Test series in Extras (b9, lb8, w1, nb3) 21 seven years. But it was Mushfiqur who shone, pulling Total (7 wickets dec, 160 overs) 522 leg-spinner Brendon Mavuta for a single at square leg Did not Bat: Mustafizur Rahman, Khaled Ahmed after the tea break to become the first wicketkeeper- batsman ever to score two double tonnes in Test crick- Fall of wickets: 1-13 (Kayes), 2-16 (Das), 3-26 et. “I wasn’t in bad form in Tests, but yes I wasn’t get- (Mithun), 4-292 (M Haque), 5-299 (Islam), 6-372 ting a big innings. I believed that it was around the cor- (Mahmudullah), 7-378 (A Haque) ner,” Mushfiqur said at the close of second day’s play. “I Bowling: Jarvis 28-6-71-5 (w1, nb1), Chatara 22.2-12- knew that converting a fifty would ensure a big score. I 34-1, Tiripano 24.4-6-65-1(nb2), Raza 22-1-111-0, had a lot of self-belief. I had my preparations in place.” Williams 30-4-80-0, Mavuta 31-1-137-0, Masakadza Mushfiqur, who played 421 balls and hit 18 fours and DHAKA: Bangladeshi cricketer Mushfiqur Rahim (L) plays a shot as Zimbabwe’s cricketer Regis Chakabva 2-0-7-0 a six, also surpassed Shakib al Hasan to become the (R) looks on during the second day of the second Test cricket match between Bangladesh and Zimbabwe at highest individual scorer in an innings for Bangladesh in the Sher-e-Bangla National Cricket Stadium in Dhaka yesterday. — AFP Test cricket. Skipper Mahmudullah Riyad called the Zimbabwe 1st innings batsmen to the dressing room soon after Mushfiqur H. Masakadza c Mehidy b Taijul 14 nudged Sean Williams for a single to pass Shakib’s 217 against England in 2010. Jarvis, who claimed three balls to score his first boundary in the morning. B. Chari not out 10 against New Zealand at Wellington in 2017. wickets on the opening day, removed Mahmudullah for Zimbabwe suffered a blow when fast bowler Tendai D. Tiripano not out 0 Mushfiqur shared a record 144-run in their unbroken 36 and Ariful Haque for four but Mushfiqur and Mehidy Chatara was stretchered off after damaging his ham- Extras (b1) 1 eighth wicket stand with Mehidy Hasan, after Kyle denied the visitors further success. string while delivering a ball in the morning. Zimbabwe Total (1 wicket, 18 overs) 25 Jarvis took two scalps in the afternoon session to com- Resuming on 303-5, Bangladesh began cautiously Cricket said Chatara had suffered a suspected quad To bat: B. Taylor, S. Williams, S. Raza, P. Moor, R. plete his third five-wicket haul in Tests. on day two, scoring just 22 runs in the first hour before muscle strain and was out of the match. Zimbabwe won Chakabva, B. Mavuta, K. Jarvis, T. Chatara. Mushfiqur also had a hand in the previous eighth Mushfiqur and Mahmudullah finally opened up. the opener by 151 runs in Sylhet, their first Test win in wicket record when he added 113 with Naeem Islam Mushfiqur, who now has six Test centuries, took 56 five years. — AFP Australia ‘different Finch warns faltering ball game’, says batsmen of shake-up India’s Sharma NEW DELHI: Batsman Rohit Sharma said India were for India ODIs brimming with confidence after their crushing home victories over the West Indies-but warned that win- ning their first Test series in Australia was a challenge HOBART: Australia’s one-day batsmen are under mounting pressure to keep their places after a lack- of a different order. lustre series defeat to South Africa, captain Aaron India completed a 3-0 Twenty20 series sweep over Finch warned yesterday, with a potential shake-up the West Indies on Sunday, to add to their 2-0 Test looming. whitewash and 3-1 victory in the ODIs, extending While the hosts won in Adelaide to snap a seven- their dominating home form. But Sharma said an away game losing streak, they crashed heavily in Perth and series against old rivals Australia, even without their lost again in Hobart by 40 runs. None of the key batsmen Steve Smith, David Warner and Cameron batsmen performed consistently, although number Bancroft, who are banned for ball-tampering, would three Shaun Marsh hit a fighting 106 in the decider be a much sterner test. “Australia is always challeng- ing when it comes to going out there and performing. on Sunday. KOLKATA: In this file photo taken on November 5, 2018 Indian T20 cricket captain Rohit Sharma (2L) cele- Finch admitted “we’re all under pressure when we Every time you go there, you are tested as a player, brates with teammates the wicket of West Indies cricketer Shai Hope during the first T20 cricket match lose, no doubt about that” and hinted at changes as an individual and as a team as well,” the veteran between India and West Indies at the Eden Gardens Cricket Stadium in Kolkata. — AFP ahead of their next series against India, ranked two opener said after Sunday’s win. “I think we have got in the world, in January. “Between the batting line-up to be at our best and when you win a series like this not having got it right for a little while now there’s (West Indies) and when you play like that in the tour- India barely have time to catch their breath before The world’s number one Test side are only too going to be questions asked whether it’s Maxi, nament you are high on confidence. It’s all about tak- heading on Friday to Australia, where the first of aware that away from home, their form is fragile. They Lynny, Heady, or myself or Stoin,” he said, referring ing that confidence to Australia and doing what we three T20 matches is in Brisbane on November 21. went down 2-1 in South Africa and then 4-1 in to Glenn Maxwell, Chris Lynn, Travis Head and did as a team.” They will also play four Tests and three ODIs. England this year. — AFP Marcus Stoinis. “It’s important that we really nut out the balance of the side and get that right over the next two months. “We have to either adapt our game plan a little bit around the way the side structures up best Mashrafe to stand or we slightly change our personnel to fit a style that ‘Silly mistake’ by we think can win.” in election Big-hitting Lynn was elevated to open the batting in Hobart in a bid to get quick runs on the board, but Pakistan gifts India it failed spectacularly when he was out first ball. DHAKA: Bangladesh’s one-day international captain Despite this, Finch said the powerful right-hander, a Mashrafe Mortaza will stand in next month’s election, 10 runs in T20 win prolific scorer in twenty20s, is likely to open again as the ruling party announced yesterday, after Prime Australia look for more aggression early in the Minister Sheikh Hasina endorsed the superstar’s foray innings. “Yeah, it could be a long-term plan,” he said. into politics. PROVIDENCE: Pakistan’s batters gifted India 10 “It was an attacking option to put Chris at the top, to A photograph of 35-year-old Mashrafe, who enjoys penalty runs by consistently running on the pitch change him and Travis (Head), to put a couple of rockstar status in cricket-mad Bangladesh, alongside guys up there who can get us off to a flyer. It was an as they succumbed to a seven-wicket defeat by Hasina ran on the front pages of many newspapers in attacking move. their rivals in the Women’s World Twenty20 on the South Asian nation of 160 million. “If I had my time again I’d still do it.” Lynn, who Sunday. has played 14 twenty20 internationals, is still devel- A spokesman for Hasina’s Awami League said Underdogs Pakistan posted a challenging total oping in the longer form of the game, but showed his Mashrafe had been given the “green light” from the of 133-7 in Guyana thanks to fifties from Bismah abilities in the second game of the three-match prime minister, who is seeking a third consecutive term Maroof and Nida Dar, but twice were penalised series by smacking 18 off the first four balls of a in office on December 30.