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Bulawayo: Mushfiqur Rahim's 98 misses in maiden ODI ton, but helps Bangladesh win series 4-1 by beating Zimbabwe 5-wickets in the fifth and final ODI at here on Tuesday (Aug 18, 2009).
After three consecutive run-fests, the bowlers finally had their say. Zimbabwe won the toss but thoughts of repeating the 312 they posted in the fourth match were undone by an incisive opening spell from Dolar Mahmud. A lower-order revival pushed the score to 210 but it wasn't enough to challenge Bangladesh, who stormed to a 4-1 series win thanks to Mushfiqur Rahim's 98.
Zimbabwe: Mushfiqur Rahim scored 98 and paceman Dolar Mahmud took four wickets on Tuesday to guide Bangladesh to a six-wicket victory over Zimbabwe and clinch the series 4-1.
Rahim started cautiously before opening up, smashing 11 boundaries in 121 balls as Bangladesh romped home with 13 balls to spare at the Queen Sports Club.
The wicketkeeper-batsman was out in the 45th over, leaving his crease to hit through the covers but ending up being stumped by Charles Coventry, who had replaced Brendan Taylor.
Chasing a small total in good batting conditions, Rahim and Tamim Iqbal put on 48 for the first wicket before Iqbal on 4 missed to be clean-bowled by veteran spinner Ray Price.
Bangladesh added just five runs before spectacular one-handed catch by Vusi Sibanda at point removed Mohammad Ashraful for 4 off Elton Chigumbura.
Raqibul Hassan added 24 before Chigumbura induced a wild swing for Malcolm Waller to take the running catch at mid off.
Rahim and captain Shakib Al Hasan put Bangladesh firmly on top with a 70-run partnership. Al Hasan played a supporting role to score 30 before giving Hamilton Masakadza an easy catch on the boundary off leg spinner Graeme Cremer.
Earlier, Dolar Mahmud took a career best 4-28 on Tuesday as Bangladesh bowled out Zimbabwe for 209 in their fifth and final One-Day International match on Tuesday.
Right-arm seam bowler Mahmud, playing his first match of the tour, used the conditions well to extract some swing at the Queens Sports Club for the first time in the series.
Wicketkeeper-batsman Brendan Taylor top-scored for Zimbabwe with a defiant innings of 61 runs. He faced 86 balls and struck three boundaries and a six.
Zimbabwe lost its first wicket when out-of-sorts Vusi Sibanda, opening the batting, moved across the line to lose his leg stump to Mahmud. Charles Coventry, who hit an unbeaten 194 on Sunday to equal the highest ever One-Day International score, was out for a duck when he got a thick outside-edge off Mahmud and was caught by wicketkeeper Mushfiqur Rahim.
Hamilton Masakadza, another Zimbabwean centurion in this series, was the next wicket to fall after adding 25 runs before being run out by Mohammad Ashraful following a mix-up with Malcolm Waller, who himself didn't last long before Mahmud bowled him.
Syed Rasel then trapped Sean Williams (12) in front before Elton Chigumbura (12) went the same way to Mahmud to reduce the hosts to 65-5.
Captain Prosper Utseya, under pressure to step down following criticism of his leadership, then added 54 runs with Ray Price for the seventh wicket off 86 balls, before Utseya (21) was bowled by Mahmudullah Riad.
Price clipped four boundaries over long on to reach 46 off 59 balls. He and Taylor put on 53 for the eighth wicket before Taylor was out lbw to a Mehraib Hossain delivery that appeared to be missing off stump.
The last two wickets to fall were Price, out leg before to a Rasel full length ball, and Graeme Cremer, who was stumped by Rahim off Naeem Islam for 10.
Dolar Mahmud is the Man of the Match, while Bangladesh opener Tamim Iqbal declared player of the tournament.
Brief Score: Bangladesh 212 for 5 (Mushfiqur 98, Price 2-21) beat Zimbabwe 209 (Taylor 61, Price 46, Dolar 4-28) by five wickets.
