The series of T20 matches between Bangladesh and Zimbabwe was played in Bangladesh recently. The first T20 between Bangladesh and Zimbabwe was played at Dhaka on the 9th of March, 2020. As expected by the fans the match was truly full of excitement. Bangladesh once again was dominant on Zimbabwe as they saw a comfortable win of 48 runs in the first T20.
Zimbabwe won the toss and elected to bowl first. Bangladesh gave Zimbabwe a hefty score-line of 200 runs. Trio Tamim Iqbal, Liton Das, and Soumya Sarkar excelled as they scored 41runs in 33 balls, 59 runs in 39 balls and 62 runs in 32 balls respectively. It was a below-par bowling performance as Zimbabwe could only take 3 wickets. Christopher Mpofu allowed 58 runs in just 4 overs. Sikandar Raza, Wesley Madhivere and Christopher Mpofu all took a wicket each but fell short to face the hard hitters of the Bangladeshi batting line up.
In the 2nd innings of the match, Zimbabwe was given a target of 201 runs in 20 overs with a require run-rate above 10 runs per over. Their batting line-up performed terribly, not a single batsman could take his tally above 28 runs. They managed to score 152 runs in 19 overs before all of them were sent back to the pavilion. The Bangladeshis gave an outstanding bowling performance. None of their bowlers conceded more than a total of 34 runs. Mustafizur Rahman and Aminul Islam took 3 wickets each while trio Shafiul Islam, Mohammad Saifuddin, and Afif Hossain managed to take a wicket each.
Zimbabwe could not compete for neck to neck with the Bangladeshis in any sense or any area of the match. Not a single player from their side could come up with a decent performance. The man of the match was awarded to Soumya Sarkar.