Taskin Ahmed claimed three wickets in an over as Bangladesh stored its cool below stress to beat Ireland by 22 runs in a rain-affected first Twenty20 worldwide in Chittagong on Monday.
Bangladesh posted in 19.2 overs earlier than rain ended its innings, halting the sport for greater than an hour and forcing match officers to set Ireland a revised goal of 104 runs in eight overs.
Ireland completed with 81-5 regardless of making a flying begin to its run chase with 18 runs scored within the first over.
Taskin pressured the guests to decelerate along with his three-wicket burst within the fourth over earlier than claiming one other wicket within the ultimate over to complete with 4-16, his career-best figures in T20Is.
Gareth Delany top-scored for Ireland and was unbeaten on 21.
Earlier Rony Talukdar struck a career-best 67 from 38 balls to energy Bangladesh after stand-in Ireland skipper Paul Stirling gained the toss and elected to bowl.
Rony placed on 91 runs in simply seven overs in a gap stand with Liton Das, who made 47 off 23 balls.
Craig Young broke the stand when he pressured Liton to gap out to Stirling at mid-off, and Harry Tector quickly had Najmul Hossain stumped for 14.
Ireland hoped to place the brakes on Bangladesh’s scoring spree as soon as Graham Hume bowled Rony, who smacked seven fours and three sixes in his maiden T20I fifty.
However, Shamim Hossain’s 20-ball 30 and Shakib Al Hasan’s 20 not out off 13 balls helped Bangladesh race previous the 200-run mark earlier than rain introduced a untimely finish.
Right-arm pacer Young claimed 2-45 for Ireland.
The recreation was Bangladesh’s first T20I at residence in opposition to Ireland, who’ve rested common skipper Andrew Balbirnie for the three-match collection.
The second match is scheduled on the identical floor on Wednesday.
Bangladesh gained the previous three-match one-day worldwide collection 2-0. The groups will meet for a one-off Test in early April.
Source web site: sportstar.thehindu.com
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