BSS, Dhaka :
Bangladesh will take on the Zimbabwe in the first T20I game today (Monday) at the Sher-e-Bangla National Cricket Stadium. GTV and BTV will telecast the match live.
The match starts at 6 pm local time.
Earlier, the hosts won the lone Test match by an innings and 106-run before they swept the three-match ODI series. If they can inflict a whitewash on Zimbabwe in T20I series too, that will be a total sweep, something which they are eying for long.
So, a winning start is mandatory to fulfill the aspiration. However, the
T20I captain Mahmudullah Riyad believes it wouldn’t be a cake-walk since Zimbabwe are always good opponents in the short format of the cricket.
“Every game is challenging. There is no way that you can take anything granted,” Mahmudullah said.
“We have played very good cricket in Test and ODI series. But still I think, Zimbabwe are very good side in T20 format. They have a good batting line up. So we have to play our best cricket to beat them. We have to go to the field with positive intent. Because, if we take them lightly it will fetch us a negative result.”
Like the Test and ODI, Bangladesh also have the upper-hand over Zimbabwe in T20 cricket. The two teams so far played 11 matches, of which the Tigers won seven and Zimbabwe had four. In the last two meetings between the two sides, in tri-nation T20I series in Bangladesh in 2018, Bangladesh won both games.
But in the last bilateral series, which was also hosted by Bangladesh, Zimbabwe won a match to draw the series.
Even though they lost the first and last ODI in this series without any significant resistance, Zimbabwe showed they are capable of giving Bangladesh a run for their money, when they made the second game very close before losing it by four runs. One such performance would help them to beat Bangladesh in the T20 cricket also, believes its captain Sean Williams.
“I think T20I can swing either way. Two balls can change the game. We have a young team who are excited to play the shorter format in Mirpur,” Williams said here on Sunday. “We have fully focused on the T20Is.
Bangladesh will take on the Zimbabwe in the first T20I game today (Monday) at the Sher-e-Bangla National Cricket Stadium. GTV and BTV will telecast the match live.
The match starts at 6 pm local time.
Earlier, the hosts won the lone Test match by an innings and 106-run before they swept the three-match ODI series. If they can inflict a whitewash on Zimbabwe in T20I series too, that will be a total sweep, something which they are eying for long.
So, a winning start is mandatory to fulfill the aspiration. However, the
T20I captain Mahmudullah Riyad believes it wouldn’t be a cake-walk since Zimbabwe are always good opponents in the short format of the cricket.
“Every game is challenging. There is no way that you can take anything granted,” Mahmudullah said.
“We have played very good cricket in Test and ODI series. But still I think, Zimbabwe are very good side in T20 format. They have a good batting line up. So we have to play our best cricket to beat them. We have to go to the field with positive intent. Because, if we take them lightly it will fetch us a negative result.”
Like the Test and ODI, Bangladesh also have the upper-hand over Zimbabwe in T20 cricket. The two teams so far played 11 matches, of which the Tigers won seven and Zimbabwe had four. In the last two meetings between the two sides, in tri-nation T20I series in Bangladesh in 2018, Bangladesh won both games.
But in the last bilateral series, which was also hosted by Bangladesh, Zimbabwe won a match to draw the series.
Even though they lost the first and last ODI in this series without any significant resistance, Zimbabwe showed they are capable of giving Bangladesh a run for their money, when they made the second game very close before losing it by four runs. One such performance would help them to beat Bangladesh in the T20 cricket also, believes its captain Sean Williams.
“I think T20I can swing either way. Two balls can change the game. We have a young team who are excited to play the shorter format in Mirpur,” Williams said here on Sunday. “We have fully focused on the T20Is.
