An excellent century was seen in the third match of the ongoing ODI series between Bangladesh and Pakistan. Batting first in the series decider in Mirpur, host Bangladesh opener Tanjid Hasan Tamim scored a memorable century. This is the first century of Tanjeed, who has been playing international cricket for about two and a half years, in any format. This explosive left-handed batsman played a strong innings, which included 13 fours and sixes, thrashing the Pakistani bowlers.
First century after missing several times
After easily winning the first match of the series, the Bangladeshi team lost the second match equally easily. In such a situation, eyes were on the third match, where it was to be decided who would win the trophy. When the Bangladeshi team came out to bat first, Tanjid Hasan took the responsibility of taking it towards a big score. Tanjeed, who has played 75 matches in international cricket, had not scored any century before this. He came close to a century on many occasions but did not succeed. Even in the first match he had scored an unbeaten 67 runs.
But this time their wait was over. With the help from other top order batsmen, Tanjeed completed his century in just 98 balls. Tanjeed completed this century by hitting a brilliant six over long on. This was his first international century in 31 ODI and 45 T20 matches. While the rest of the Bangladesh batsmen were facing difficulty in scoring runs at a fast pace, Tanjeed was scoring runs freely without any problem. Finally, his excellent innings came to a halt in the 37th over. Tanjeed scored 107 runs in 107 balls, which included 7 sixes and 6 fours.
Bangladesh’s strong score
On the basis of this innings of Tanjeed, Bangladesh batted first and scored a strong score of 290 runs. Apart from them, Liton Das played strong innings of 41 runs and Tauheed Hridoy also played unbeaten innings of 48 runs, on the basis of which Bangladeshi team was able to reach this score. For Pakistan, fast bowler Haris Rauf took the maximum of 3 wickets for 52 runs in 10 overs.