Match Report
Tamim Iqbal player of the day blasts his innings today v Netherlands in World T20, 3rd Match 9 March 2016. He scored 83 runs and played his innings till the end of the Bangladesh team innings and goes not out. Bangladesh won the opening World T20 match in Dharamsala by eight runs thanks to a masterful bowling performance by Taskin Ahmed, who conceded only eight runs in the last over when the Netherlands needed to win by 17.
Due to neither team’s ability to seize control of the match, the game had changed direction almost every over. After Tom Cooper was out on the first ball, Mudassar Bukhari and Pieter Seelaar added 16 runs in the penultimate over to keep the Netherlands in contention. In the last over, Bukhari was run out, and Logan van Beek and Seelaar were unable to locate the boundaries.
In the end, Bangladesh won thanks to Tamim Iqbal’s undefeated 83, Mashrafe Mortaza’s boundary-free final three overs, and Taskin’s precise final over while the rest of the Bangladeshi batting lineup faltered. With seven wickets remaining and 54 runs needed in the final five overs, the Netherlands had the game under control. Opening the attack was Captain Peter Borren, who swept four runs past midwicket with one hand.
The same fielder then caught him at the end of the over after Nasir Hossain had dropped him in the same area. After the ball hit the off stump but the bails remained in place, Mortaza, who gave up one four throughout his delivery, was unfortunate not to have taken Cooper’s wicket in the following over. However, Van van Merwe was substituted later in the match, with the razor-thin edge going to Mushfiqur Rahim.
Wesley Barresi had earlier been dismissed by Al-Amin Hossain in the fifth over, but Ben Cooper and Stephan Myburgh, his opening partner, continued to pile up runs. Then, in the ninth over, Nasir gave Bangladesh the breakthrough by getting Myburgh to bowl for a run-a-ball of 29. After reverse-sweeping Nasir for two boundaries in one over, Borren got right to work. There were no boundaries off the bat in the following 26 balls.
Timm van der Gugten and Paul van Meekeren combined to take five wickets for 38 runs in eight overs during the first innings. Bangladesh’s late push was halted by van der Gugten’s double-strike in the 15th over, and van Meekeren made up for his missed catch in the opening over with figures of 2 for 17. The only batsman to stop the bowling was Tamim, who scored his first T20I fifty since December 2012.
His third-highest T20 score of 83, off 58 balls, with three sixes and six fours. Taking lots of singles in the early portion of his innings, Tamim assessed the situation before hitting a stunning cut off van Meekeren in the sixth over. After misfiring on his first six, which just managed to clear long-off, he displayed his form with a late dab past short third man in his next boundary.
Tamim shifted gears when Shakib Al Hasan was removed from the game and struck van der Merwe for a straight six in the 13th over, but he avoided being stumped off the next ball. In the following over, he hit two fours off Logan van Beek, but he found it difficult to farm the strike as wickets kept falling all around him. In the final over, he managed to smash just one more four and a flat six. The remainder of the batsmen’s troubles demonstrated the significance of Tamim’s knock.
World T20, 3rd Match, First Round Group A: Bangladesh v Netherlands at Dharamsala, Mar 9, 2016.
World T20 – First Round Group A
T20I no. 524 | 2015/16 season
Played at Himachal Pradesh Cricket Association Stadium, Dharamsala (neutral venue)
9 March 2016 – day/night match (20-over match)
Umpires – S Ravi and RJ Tucker (Australia)
TV umpire – CB Gaffaney (New Zealand)
Match referee – AJ Pycroft (Zimbabwe)
Reserve umpire – NJ Llong (England)
