Scorecard<\/a><\/p>\nBangladesh claimed their first one-day international series win against Australia with a five-wicket victory in the second game in Mirpur.<\/p>\n
The hosts, who won their first 50-over match against Australia in 21 years in the series opener, had lost all four of their previous ODI series against the six-time World Cup winners 3-0.<\/p>\n
Their only previous match win was in a tri-series with England in 2005, but back-to-back victories means a first ODI series success to add to their T20 triumph in 2021.<\/p>\n
Chasing a revised 192 in 41 overs after the Australia innings was halted by rain, Bangladesh lost opener Tanzid Hasan Tamim for a duck in the first over.<\/p>\n
Soumya Sarkar (42) and Najmul Hossain Shanto (41) put on 86 for the second wicket but both fell in quick succession to leave the hosts 98-3.<\/p>\n
However, they got over the line with six overs to spare, with Tawhid Hridoy making an unbeaten 40 and captain Mehidy Hasan Miraz 22 not out.<\/p>\n
Mehidy was hit by a bouncer from Nathan Ellis and needed treatment but continued to bat despite a stretcher being called for.<\/p>\n
Australia – who are without key players including Mitch Marsh, Travis Head, Pat Cummins and Josh Hazlewood – had earlier posted 187-8 in 42 overs before the rain arrived.<\/p>\n
They were reduced to 0-3 inside two overs – just the fourth instance in 4,975 men’s ODIs of a side losing three wickets for no runs – before stand-in captain Josh Inglis made 34.<\/p>\n
Marnus Labuschagne added an unbeaten 55 and shared a seventh-wicket stand of 103 with Xavier Bartlett (52), but the latter and Adam Zampa fell just before the rain to reduce the target Bangladesh required on the DLS method.<\/p>\n
The final game in the three-match series takes place in Mirpur on Sunday from 06:00 BST.<\/p>\n
The series could be significant for England and qualification for the 2027 World Cup.<\/p>\n
England are eighth in the International Cricket Council one-day rankings, Bangladesh ninth and West Indies 10th.<\/p>\n
Only the top nine teams in September qualify directly for the World Cup, and England face the tough challenge of India in their next one-day series in July.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Second one-day international, Mirpur Australia 187-8 (42 overs): Labuschagne 55*; Mustafizur 3-27 Bangladesh 195-5 (35 overs): Soumya 42,…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":633372,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[34],"tags":[1721,101,56,54,55],"class_list":["post-633371","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-cricket","tag-cricket","tag-sports","tag-uk","tag-united-kingdom","tag-unitedkingdom"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/633371","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=633371"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/633371\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/633372"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=633371"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=633371"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=633371"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}