Bangladesh national cricket team went 2-0 up in their five-match Twenty20 International series against Zimbabwe as they won the second match of the series by six wickets at the Zahur Ahmed Chowdhury Stadium in Chattogram on Sunday.
Chasing 139, Bangladesh made an unnecessary mess of their chase losing wickets in the middle, which added with the rain breaks, had Bangladesh losing on D/L method at one point.
However, an unbeaten 37 off 25 balls from Towhid Hridoy, alongside Mahmudullah鈥檚 unbeaten 26 off 16 balls, guided them to the win with nine balls in hand.
After opting to bowl first, Bangladesh once again started brightly as they stifled the Zimbabwean batting lineup, with opener Joylord Gumbie scoring 17 off 30 balls, and the visitors were reduced to 42-5 in 10.2 overs.
From there, though, a 73-run stand between Brian Bennett and Jonathan Campbell 鈥� who is the son of former Zimbabwe batter Alistair Campbell and debuted in this game 鈥� brought them back in the game.
The latter was dismissed for 45 off 24 balls but Bennett managed to stay unbeaten on 44 off 29 balls to take Zimbabwe to 138-7.
Taskin Ahmed and Rishad Hossain picked up two wickets each for the Tigers, while Shoriful Islam, Shak Mahedi Hasan, and Mohammad Saifuddin picking up one each.
In reply, Bangladesh started well as their opening pair of Liton Das and Tanzid Hasan Tamim added 32 runs in just four overs.
Their partnership was broken on 41 in the final over of the powerplay when Tanzid fell for 18 off 19 balls to Ainsley Ndlovu.
The four overs after the powerplay was sluggish for Bangladesh as they produced only 21 runs with Liton falling for a 25-ball 23 and Najmul Hossain Shanto getting out for a 15-ball 16.
Rain interrupted the game for the third time then, and at that point, Bangladesh were three runs behind the par score on DLS method.
A 23-ball 31-run partnership between Towhid and Jaker Ali Anik then took Bangladesh ahead of the DLS par before the latter was castled by Richard Ngarava for 13.
Towhid then saw the game off with Mahmudullah as the duo produced an unbeaten stand of 49 runs off 28 balls.
Luke Jongwe picked up two wickets for Bangladesh, while Ngarava and Ndlovu picked up one each.