4th ODI: Bangladesh v Zimbabwe @ Dhaka

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Bangladesh: Rajin Saleh, Nafis Iqbal, Aftab Ahmed, *Habibul Bashar, Mohammad Ashraful, Manjural Islam Rana, Mohammad Rafique, Mashrafe Mortaza, +Khaled Mashud, Khaled Mahmud, Nazmul Hossain

Zimbabwe: Matsikenyeri, Rogers, Ebrahim, Masakadza, Taylor, *+Taibu, Chigumbura, Panyangara, Utseya, Hondo, Mpofu

Umpires: AFM Akhtaruddin (Bangladesh) and Asad Rauf (Pakistan)

Series: Zimbabwe lead the 5 match series 2-1

Bangladesh won the toss and elected to bat, only change to the sides from the previous match is Mohammad Rafique back from injury replacing Enamul Haque jnr

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Taibu nailed an excellent stumping, a leg side wide from Hondo with Taibu standing up at the stumps to remove the dangerous Bashar. Bangladesh will be happy with 247. Interesting that they have dropped their most successful bowler of recent times to make way for Rafique. I think they would have been better off playing both spinners.

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After a 102 run, 22 over partnership for the first wicket, Zimbabwe lost 9/67 in the next 21 overs. The spinners took 4 each, Mortaza got the other one, all but one c&b, lbw or bowled

Hondo and Mpofu added 20 for the tenth wicket before a run out ended the match with Zimbabwe 59 runs short and with 16 balls not bowled.

Bangladesh level the series 2-2 with the decider on Monday

Bangladesh 9/247
Nafis Iqbal 56 (76)
Khaled Mashud 51 (61)
Aftab Ahmed 44 (49)
Taylor 3/54 (7)
Mpofu 2/39 (8)

Zimbabwe 189
Matsikenyeri 50
Rogers 49
Masakadza 33
Mohammad Rafique 4/33 (10)
Manjural Islam Rana 4/36 (10)

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Manjural Islam Rana MOTM for the second game in a row

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Fantastic result for Bangladesh. Good positive batting from some of the less experienced batsmen. Would love to see them win this series and hurry the return of Streak and co.