{"id":1323,"date":"2026-07-09T11:25:39","date_gmt":"2026-07-09T11:25:39","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/dailytherepublic.com\/?p=1323"},"modified":"2026-07-09T11:25:39","modified_gmt":"2026-07-09T11:25:39","slug":"aiming-to-level-series-bangladesh-to-bowl-first-vs-zimbabwe","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/dailytherepublic.com\/bn\/2026\/07\/09\/aiming-to-level-series-bangladesh-to-bowl-first-vs-zimbabwe\/","title":{"rendered":"Aiming to level series, Bangladesh to bowl first vs Zimbabwe\u00a0"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Bangladesh captain Mehidy Hasan Miraz won the toss and chose to bowl first in the second ODI against Zimbabwe on Wednesday. GeographicReference<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Bangladesh made one change from the side that lost the opening match by 25 runs, bringing in left-arm fast bowler Shariful Islam for Mustafizur Rahman.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">After the toss, Miraz said Bangladesh wanted to make use of the first 10 overs, with the conditions expected to assist the seamers.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Bangladesh trail 1-0 in the three-match series after being bowled out for 116 in pursuit of 142 in the opener. Nahid Rana took 6 for 21, the best ODI figures by a Bangladesh bowler, as Zimbabwe were dismissed for 141.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Before the tour, Bangladesh had won ODI series against the West Indies, Pakistan, New Zealand and Australia.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Batting coach Mohammad Ashraful said he expected the batters to improve after the first match and pointed to the larger boundaries and extra bounce in Harare.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Bangladesh are also without Litton Das for the series. The Bangladesh Cricket Board (BCB) said the wicketkeeper-batter has not recovered from the injury he suffered during the ODI series against Australia last month.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Another defeat would give Zimbabwe an unassailable lead in the series.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Post by News Desk<\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Bangladesh captain Mehidy Hasan Miraz won the toss and chose to bowl first in the second ODI against Zimbabwe on Wednesday. GeographicReference Bangladesh made one change from the side that&hellip;<\/p>","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":1325,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[114,109,7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1323","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-all-news","category-international","category-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/dailytherepublic.com\/bn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1323","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/dailytherepublic.com\/bn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/dailytherepublic.com\/bn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailytherepublic.com\/bn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailytherepublic.com\/bn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1323"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/dailytherepublic.com\/bn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1323\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1326,"href":"https:\/\/dailytherepublic.com\/bn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1323\/revisions\/1326"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailytherepublic.com\/bn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1325"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dailytherepublic.com\/bn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1323"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailytherepublic.com\/bn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1323"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailytherepublic.com\/bn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1323"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}