Bangladesh’s teenage fast bowling sensation Mustafizur Rahman has stormed into record book with his fiery cutters that left India flummoxed at the Tigers’ den.
Published : 21 Jun 2015, 09:22 PM
The 19-year old tore through the much-vaunted India batting line-up to become the first player to pick up 11 wickets in his first two ODIs.
With two successive five-wicket hauls, he also equalled the record of Zimbabwe seamer Brian Vitori.
Mustafizur left India batsman clueless as Bangladesh skittled out the tourists for 200 in 45 overs in the rain-shortened game at the Sher-e-Bangla National Cricket Stadium in Mirpur on Sunday.
He followed up his Thursday’s 5 for 50 with 6 for 43 in the second ODI to become only the second bowler to achieve the feat.
Incidentally, Vitori recorded the feat against Bangladesh in 2011.
Mustafizur varied his pace, line and length to have the Indians guessing all the while in his second spell after his first five overs had cost him 32 runs.
He drew first blood scalping opener Rohit Sharma for a duck in the second ball of the match.
Brought back on in the 36th over, he ripped through the Indian middle-order with cutters just when skipper Mahendra Singh Dhoni (47) and Suresh Raina (34) had looked like making a slow recovery.
He first had Raina caught behind by wicket-keeper Liton Kumar Das off a rising cutter outside the off-stump.