{"id":2576,"date":"2021-07-16T22:20:19","date_gmt":"2021-07-16T16:50:19","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.businessupturn.com\/sports\/?p=127047"},"modified":"2021-07-16T22:20:19","modified_gmt":"2021-07-16T16:50:19","slug":"bangladesh-beat-zimbabwe-by-155-runs-in-1st-odi-liton-das-and-shakib-al-hasan-shines","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.businessupturn.com\/sports\/cricket\/bangladesh-beat-zimbabwe-by-155-runs-in-1st-odi-liton-das-and-shakib-al-hasan-shines\/","title":{"rendered":"Bangladesh beat Zimbabwe by 155 runs in 1st ODI, Liton Das and Shakib Al Hasan shines"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Liton Das\u2019 century and Shakib Al Hasan\u2019s five wickets helped Bangladesh defeat Zimbabwe by 155 runs in the opening match of their three One-Day Internationals on Friday at the Harare Sports Club. Liton struck 102 as Bangladesh recovered from a shaky start to post 276-9 in 50 overs before knocking Zimbabwe out for a meagre 121.<\/p>\n<p>At 74-4, Bangladesh seemed to be in trouble, but Das and Mahmudullah rescued them with a 93-run partnership, putting them on track for an impressive total on a challenging wicket. Afif Hossain scored 45 off 35 balls while Luke Jongwe took 3-51, who had lost their one-off test against Bangladesh at the same venue earlier this week.<\/p>\n<p>Zimbabwe responded with Regis Chakabva scoring 54, but they were unable to form any significant partnerships as a flurry of rash strokes cost them crucial wickets.\u00a0<span style=\"text-transform: initial\">By bowling a brilliant spell of 5-30 in the match, Shakib Al Hasan became Bangladesh\u2019s leading ODI wicket-taker with 274 wickets surpassing Mashrafe Mortaza.<\/span><\/p>\n<p>Timycen Maruma\u2019s hamstring injury on the field also meant Zimbabwe was one batter short as their innings ended in only the 29th over.\u00a0<span style=\"text-transform: initial\">On Sunday, the two teams will clash in Harare for their second One-Day International.<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Shakib Al Hasan became Bangladesh\u2019s leading ODI wicket-taker with 274 wickets surpassing Mashrafe Mortaza.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":180,"featured_media":25662,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[427,1452,338,1010,389,946],"class_list":["post-2576","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-cricket","tag-bangladesh","tag-liton-das","tag-odi","tag-shakib-al-hassan","tag-sports","tag-zimbabwe"],"reading_time":"1 min read","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.businessupturn.com\/sports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2576","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.businessupturn.com\/sports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.businessupturn.com\/sports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.businessupturn.com\/sports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/180"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.businessupturn.com\/sports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2576"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.businessupturn.com\/sports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2576\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.businessupturn.com\/sports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/25662"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.businessupturn.com\/sports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2576"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.businessupturn.com\/sports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2576"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.businessupturn.com\/sports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2576"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}