Tamim departs after breezy start
Bangladesh ODI captain Tamim Iqbal set the tone for the Tigers' chase of West Indies' 149 for 9 with a breezy 33.
Bangladesh lost Liton Das early as Windies mirrored Bangladesh's tactics of starting with a left-arm spinner at one end. Akeal Hossein got one to drift in with the arm and bamboozle Liton in the third over as the ball rapped the pads. Liton went for the review but the umpire's call could not be overturned as ball tracking showed the ball would have hit the leg stump. Tamim started playing his shots following that wicket. A few classy shots off Anderson Phillip accelerated the score in a rain-curtailed match. Tamim found the fine-leg fence with a clipped six to become the first Bangladesh batsman to hit 100 sixes in ODIs. Then he robbed back onto his toes to guide another between point and slip.
Tamim while looking very good, then made the wrong call to run a risky single in the eighth over. Tamim ran towards the striker's end and Phillip produced a direct-hit from point to see the Tigers' ODI captain depart for 33 off 25 deliveries.
At the end of 10 overs, Nazmul Hossain was batting at a run-a-ball 20 along with Mahmudullah Riyad on 1 as Tigers reached 60 for 2 in 10 overs. Earlier Windies were restricted to 149 for 9 in a 41-over-per-team game.
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