Bangladesh eventually overcame a spirited Ireland on the final day of the second Test to claim a 2-0 series win in Mirpur.<\/p>\n
They won the second Test by 217 runs, having claimed victory in the first Test by an innings and 47 runs.<\/p>\n
Heinrich Mallan’s Ireland side knew they were up against it on Sunday, as they needed 333 more runs on day five to spring an almighty surprise.<\/p>\n
While they fell short of their 509 target, Curtis Campher impressed as he dug in for 71 not out from 259 balls.<\/p>\n
He was partnered by Test debutant Gavin Hoey, who enjoyed a 104-ball stay that brought 37 runs, including four fours, as he and Campher pushed on into the middle session of the day.<\/p>\n
Shortly after lunch, Ireland’s total had become the highest fourth-innings Test score in Dhaka by a visiting side.<\/p>\n
Bangladesh eventually wrapped up victory and the series in the 60th over of the day as Hoey and then Matthew Humphreys were dismissed by Hasan Murad.<\/p>\n
Ireland ended all out for 291 as Murad finished with 4-44.<\/p>\n
“At the start of the day the main word we had was fight,” said Ireland captain Andrew Balbirnie.<\/p>\n
“We knew we would be up against it for most of the day but the application by Curtis and Gavin was really amazing and even Jordan [Neill], the way he played, but particularly Curtis to be out there for as long as he was.<\/p>\n
“A lot of resilience but at the same time, we were definitely outplayed, and Bangladesh were deserving of their win.”<\/p>\n
The second Test will be followed by three T20 internationals, the first of which takes place on Thursday, 27 November.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Bangladesh eventually overcame a spirited Ireland on the final day of the second Test to claim a 2-0…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":279825,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[34],"tags":[1721,101,56,54,55],"class_list":{"0":"post-279824","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-cricket","8":"tag-cricket","9":"tag-sports","10":"tag-uk","11":"tag-united-kingdom","12":"tag-unitedkingdom"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/279824","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=279824"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/279824\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/279825"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=279824"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=279824"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=279824"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}