Recent Match Report - Bangladesh vs Zimbabwe 3rd ODI 2022

Sikandar Raza stood in as Zimbabwe captain for the third ODI against Bangladesh, with regular skipper Regis Chakabva ruled out due to a sprained hand*. Zimbabwe won the toss for the third time in a row and decided to field in their hunt for a series sweep.

With Chakabva - also the wicketkeeper - missing, Zimbabwe gave an ODI debut to 22-year-old wicketkeeper-batter Clive Madande, while Richard Ngarava returned in place of Tanaka Chivanga in the bowling attack.

Bangladesh, who have already lost the series, dropped fast bowlers Taskin Ahmed and Shoriful Islam and replaced them with Mustafizur Rahman and Ebadot Hossain, who is making his ODI debut.

Zimbabwe had chased down totals of 304 and 291 in the first two ODIs of the series, and thus have an unassailable 2-0 lead already. They now have the chance to sweep an ODI series 3-0 for the first time against a Full Member side since their 3-0 win over Bangladesh in 2001-02.

Zimbabwe: 1 Tadiwanashe Marumani, 2 Takudzwanashe Kaitano, 3 Innocent Kaia, 4 Wessly Madhevere, 5 Sikandar Raza (capt), 6 Clive Madande (wk), 7 Tony Munyonga, 8 Brand Evans, 9 Luke Jongwe, 10 Victor Nyauchi, 11 Richard Ngarava

Bangladesh: 1 Tamim Iqbal (capt), 2 Najmul Hossain Shanto, 3 Anamul Haque, 4 Mushfiqur Rahim (wk), 5 Mahmudullah, 6 Afif Hossain, 7 Mehidy Hasan Miraz, 8 Taijul Islam, 9 Hasan Mahmud, 10 Mustafizur Rahman, 11 Ebadot Hossain

*This story was updated at 8.07 GMT after Zimbabwe Cricket provided the injury update about Regis Chakabva

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Recent Match Report - Bangladesh vs Zimbabwe 2nd ODI 2022

Toss Zimbabwe chose to bowl vs Bangladesh

Zimbabwe captain Regis Chakabva decided to field after winning the toss against Bangladesh in the second ODI in Harare. While the home side's good luck continues with the coin, having won all five tosses during this white-ball tour, opposition captain Tamim Iqbal said that he was happy to bat first on a used pitch, as it may slow down in the second half.

Bangladesh have made three changes by bringing in fast bowler Hasan Mahmud, opener Najmul Hossain Shanto and fingerspinner Taijul Islam, in place of the injured Mustafizur Rahman (soft tissue edema) and Litton Das (hamstring strain) and Mosaddek Hossain.

Among them, Chivanga was not in the original ODI squad named before the first game.

Mushfiqur Rahim and Shoriful Islam were passed fit despite suffering knocks in the first game. Bangladesh had already flown in Mohammad Naim and Ebadot Hossain as additions to the ODI side after Litton was ruled out of the tour.

Zimbabwe: 1 Regis Chakabva (capt & wk), 2 Innocent Kaia, 3 Wessly Madhevere, 4 Takudzwanashe Kaitano, 5 Sikandar Raza, 6 Tadiwanashe Marumani, 7 Luke Jongwe, 8 Brad Evans, 9 Tony Munyonga, 10 Tanaka Chivanga, 11 Victor Nyauchi

Bangladesh: 1 Tamim Iqbal (capt), 2 Najmul Hossain Shanto, 3 Anamul Haque, 4 Mushfiqur Rahim (wk), 5 Mahamudullah, 6 Afif Hossain, 7 Mehidy Hasan Miraz, 8 Taijul Islam, 9 Hasan Mahmud, 10 Taskin Ahmed, 11 Shoriful Islam

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Recent Match Report - Bangladesh vs Zimbabwe 1st ODI 2022

Zimbabwe 307 for 5 (Raza 135*, Kaia 110, Mustafizur 1-57) beat Bangladesh 303 for 2 (Litton 81, Anamul 73, Raza 1-48) by five wickets

The pair added 192 runs for the fourth wicket - breaking a 25-year old partnership record and becoming the new best for Zimbabwe against Bangladesh. Raza and Kaia also became only the second Zimbabwean duo to score centuries in the same ODI innings. To think they actually came together when the score was 62 for 3 and the game was almost slipping away from them.

Kaia displayed a refreshing batting approach, concentrating on keeping the ball all along the ground. Still he picked up 11 fours and maintained a strike rate of 90.16 by running himself ragged for those ones and twos. He hit two two sixes over midwicket, but he never tried to out-hit the man of the moment.

Raza, recently named Player of the Series at the T20 World Cup qualifier, grabbed the game with both hands and struck 14 boundaries including six sixes, the last of which was the winning hit. He had earlier been their best bowler too, taking 1-48.

Fifties from Litton Das (81), Anamul Haque (73), Tamim Iqbal (62) and Mushfiqur Rahim (52*) had them sitting pretty, but scoring just 39 runs in the last five overs hurt them. It is only the third time that Bangladesh have lost a game scoring in excess of 300, and the fourth time for Zimbabwe have won one chasing 300-plus.

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Things had been so different at the start of the chase. Regis Chakabva barely had any time to soak in the fact that he was the first Zimbabwean to captain, keep wicket and open the batting since Andy Flower in 1996. He chopped a Mustafizur Rahman delivery on to his leg-stump for 2. Tarisai Musakanda skied Shoriful Islam to cover in the next over, and Zimbabwe were suddenly 6 for 2.

Wessly Madhevere fended Bangladesh off, with Kaia, adding 56 runs for the third wicket. But the partnership ended disastrously when miscommunication between the two, having seen a fumble out in the deep, resulted in an entirely avoidable run-out.

That brought Zimbabwe's match-winners together and though there were a few iffy moments - substitute Taijul Islam dropped Raza on 43, a simple chance at cover. Kaia was dropped twice in the same Shoriful over on 68 and 74 respectively - they soon settled into rhythm.

And when they brought up their 162nd run in tandem, they broke the record for Zimbabwe's biggest ODI partnership against Bangladesh, eclipsing the Flower brothers, Andy and Grant, effort from October 1997.

Raza was the dominant one in the partnership, starting his six-hitting in the 21st over when he hammered Shoriful down the ground. He pulled Taskin over midwicket, took a five-over break between the 25th and the 30th, then smashed Mustafizur straight back over his head to reach his fifty. He thrashed his next six off Mehidy Hasan Miraz, pulled Shoriful over midwicket for good measure and finally sealed the match with 10 balls to spare by carting Mosaddek Hossain over the ropes as well.

Luke Jongwe played an important hand (24 off 19) after Kaia got out for 110 in the 42nd over.

Tamim couldn't find a wicket-taker among his bowlers. To make matters worse, Shoriful looked to have hurt his knee. Their gamble to go without a left-arm spinner for the first time against Zimbabwe also hurt them.

Bangladesh's score of 303 for 2 was built around four half-centuries but it was the big partnerships that really helped them. Tamim and Litton added 119 runs, their fourth 100-plus stand as an opening pair. Tamim was the first to fifty, and shortly afterwards when he reached 57 runs, he became the first from Bangladesh to reach 8,000 ODI runs.

After Tamim's departure, Litton got to his seventh fifty, and suddenly got into a groove to hit a cluster of fours and a six to get to 81. But while taking a quick first run, he pulled his hamstring, and had to stretchered off after the second drinks break.

Anamul followed the openers with his first fifty for Bangladesh in almost eight years. This was also the innings in which he struck the ball the sweetest since making his comeback this year. Anamul got into the Bangladesh side with a world record 1,138 runs in the domestic List-A tournament, the Dhaka Premier League. He continued on the same vein against Zimbabwe, hitting his tenth one-day fifty in 2022, and this was his sixth in a row in this format.

Anamul added 96 runs for the second wicket with Mushfiqur, as the pair got into the last ten overs with a gung-ho approach. But after taking 51 runs between the 41st and 45th, they got only 39 runs in the last five. The Zimbabwe bowlers pulling back the scoring rate was their only success in an innings in which they took just two wickets.

Mohammad Isam is ESPNcricinfo's Bangladesh correspondent. @isam84

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