After the big loss of Taskin Ahmed and Arafat Sunny now the Bangladesh team is unable to win any next match. Now what they gonna do? Now they have left only one way to protect their reputation that is the maximum target if they won next both tosses otherwise they will not make that milestone. Australia’s World T20 campaign continued to show its weaknesses as they emerged victorious in a dramatic fashion.
Essentially knocking Bangladesh out of the competition in Bangalore. Before more difficult matches with Pakistan and India, Adam Zampa and Usman Khawaja delivered impressive performances at the M Chinnaswamy Stadium, but some players didn’t quite live up to the hype. Bangladesh never looked to have the confidence to go all the way to win, especially after Taskin Ahmed and Arafat Sunny were lost because of concerns about their bowling actions.
But Mustafizur Rahman bowled brilliantly for his skipper Mashrafe Mortaza, giving Australia’s top player Steven Smith another poor score. It appears like Smith is still struggling with his game, even after he was promoted to the T20 captaincy ahead of Aaron Finch just a few weeks ago. There seemed to be a certain lack of elegance about the chase, even after Glenn Maxwell had brought Australia to a position where they needed just nine from the last three overs.
After Maxwell recklessly charged at Shakib Al Hasan to be stumped, John Hastings was floored by a hard-handed push as he attempted to cover. Before Hastings got caught in the deep while attempting to secure the winning runs, another run-out opportunity was presented. One term that sprung to me was messy. Just when Bangladesh appeared capable of developing on a tentative start, Zampa bowled an outstanding spell during the middle of the game, and Smith owed him a great deal.
On a sluggish Bangalore surface, Australia’s seam attack was not very dangerous, thus Zampa was permitted to work his way to three wickets; in his opening over, Mitchell Marsh lost a chance that may have gone to him. Zampa’s performance, on a surface that did not spin much, raised more concerns about the selectors’ decision to only bring Ashton Agar, a left-arm spinner who is rarely employed, to the tournament with him.
In these conditions, Khawaja appeared to be Australia’s most confident batsman, much as he had against New Zealand. In Mashrafe Mortaza’s opening over of the innings, he got things going with the most sublime straight six imaginable and found gaps with the kind of ease he has displayed since the Australian summer began. When the objective was well within reach, Khawaja was irritated to be bowled behind his pads.
His departure revealed the uneasiness of those in a batting lineup glaringly devoid of a player who could easily adapt to the slower pace of the ball. Hastings replaced Agar in Australia’s lone alteration to the team that lost their first game in Dharamsala, after the decision of tour selectors Mark Waugh and Darren Lehmann not to bring back Aaron Finch. Bangladesh’s left-arm spinner Saqlain Sajib and off-spinner Shuvagata Hom.
Who both joined the team on Sunday night, took Taskin and Sunny’s places. Due to sickness, Tamim Iqbal was also absent for Mortaza’s team; Mohammad Mithun moved up in the order to take his place. With the new ball, Nathan Coulter-Nile bowled well, while Shane Watson, at the other end, had a propensity for getting wickets, forcing catches from Sabbir Rahman and Soumya Sarkar. Because Hastings and Marsh were a little more costly, Smith had to call Zampa.
Mithun’s short delivery to Watson at deep midwicket was a gift for Zampa’s first wicket, but he found his rhythm after that and refused to give up when Hom hit him for a massive six and another boundary. He attacked the stumps on the next delivery and was declared leg before wicket; before the stint ended, he had also removed Shakib, who had been bowled out for length and bounce. Smith would have expected a small chase from that point on.
But Mahmudullah and Mushfiqur Rahim, who were more at ease with pace than Zampa’s spin, used some ingenuity to locate gaps on the off side and amass 44 runs from the innings’ last three overs. Smith would not have planned for at least 20 extra runs in the intended total of 157 earlier in the evening. Watson and Khawaja got off to a strong start before the all-rounder missed a chance and was removed. He then had another opportunity to score in the following over.
But Sabbir’s brilliant comeback from the deep caught him short. Khawaja purred while Smith stammered, eventually getting bowled between his legs by a Mustafizur delivery that curved back into him after he mixed one straight six with a few miscues. Other teams will notice that Smith was quite unusual in missing a ball on that line.
Warner briefly dazzled until Khawaja lost his leg stump, and the equation momentarily appeared problematic when the vice captain smashed a full ball back to Shakib. Maxwell countered with a few of sharp strokes, but his apparent incapacity to control his own hasty judgments resulted in stumping and a nerve-wracking conclusion against unprepared opponents. Australia is on the board, but they don’t even really resemble competitors.
World T20, 22nd Match, Super 10 Group 2: Australia v Bangladesh at Bangalore, Mar 21, 2016.
Match scheduled to begin at 19:30 local time (14:00 GMT)
T20I no. 544 | 2015/16 season
Played at M Chinnaswamy Stadium, Bangalore
21 March 2016 – night match (20-over match)
Australia team
SPD Smith*, DA Warner, AC Agar, NM Coulter-Nile, JP Faulkner, AJ Finch, JW Hastings, JR Hazlewood, UT Khawaja, MR Marsh, GJ Maxwell, PM Nevill†, AJ Tye, SR Watson, A Zampa
Bangladesh team
Mashrafe Mortaza*, Shakib Al Hasan, Abu Hider, Al-Amin Hossain, Arafat Sunny, Mahmudullah, Mohammad Mithun, Mushfiqur Rahim†, Mustafizur Rahman, Nasir Hossain, Nurul Hasan, Sabbir Rahman, Soumya Sarkar, Tamim Iqbal, Taskin Ahmed
Umpires – IJ Gould and RA Kettleborough
TV umpire – Aleem Dar
Match referee – BC Broad
Reserve umpire – BNJ Oxenford
