Tigers manifest own feat trouncing Zimbabwe

Bangladesh national cricket team smashed visiting Zimbabwe by 218 runs in the 2nd and final Test of the two-match series on Thursday at Sher-e-Bangla National Cricket Stadium, Dhaka.
This is the second highest winning margin by Tigers after the 226 runs' triumph in 2005 against the same opponents in Chattogram.
Bangladesh were eight wickets away from the post after the play of day-4 being stumped on Wednesday while Zimbabwe resumed their innings following day from overnights' 76 for two to achieve almost unreachable 367 runs deed in the fifth and final day of the match.
Bangladesh turners took devastating form throughout the series and Zimbabwean batters were gasping against Miraz-Taijul whirls. Brendon Taylor was the exceptional to pick hundreds in back to back innings standing against spinning momentum of Bangladesh.

Taylor picked-up his fifth and sixth Test hundred of his career in Dhaka Test, who got five of his total six tons against Bangladesh.
Zimbabwe, however, were bowled out for 224 runs although Tendai Chatara couldn't bat since the fast bowler sustained injury in the first innings and went out of action. Taylor remained unbeaten with 106 runs, who scored 110 in the first innings.
Mehidy Hasan Miraz was absolutely brilliant in Dhaka Test and crashed Zimbabwean fourth innings batting order hauling his sixth five-for conceding 38 runs only, while Taijul took two.
Man of the series of the bilateral longer version clash Taijul Islam hunted 18 wickets, which is the second best bowling figure by a Tigers bowler in a two-match Test series after Mehidy Miraz, who preyed 19 wickets in the Test dual against England in 2016 at home. Miraz grasped 11 wickets in this series as well.
Mushfiqur Rahim named the man of the match for his career best 219 runs' knock, in fact, the highest individual Test innings total by any Bangladesh batter. He became the first Tiger to bag twin Test double tons and solitary wicketkeeper of the world to have the unique record.
The prize giving ceremony was commenced with the sidelined man Tamim Iqbal! BCB awarded the genius Tigers batter with crest and commemorating blazer for 10,000 international runs' cricket career while Mushi also wore the special blazer for the elite record of twin double century in Test cricket.
Earlier, Winning the toss Bangladesh elected to bat first on Sunday and declared their first innings putting 522 runs on the board riding on Mushfiqur Rahim's 219, Mominul Haque's 161 and Mehidy Miraz's 68 runs. They restricted visitors for 304 in the first innings and soaring on the bat of stand-in skipper Mahmudullah Riyad's 101 they declared their second innings putting 226 runs on the board. And thus, Tigers set mammoth 443 runs' target for Zimbabwe, the highest successful chase of whom was 162 against Pakistan in 1998. Zimbabwe were proven 218 short from the berth.
Both Bangladesh and Zimbabwe skippers shared the trophy since Zimbabwe won the Sylhet Test by 151 runs which is their first Test win after 2001 while the biggest delta island dwellers in the world also got their first Test win of the year.
Tigers Test win before the series against Windies might boost them up morally as they will give hospitality to Windies for two Tests, three ODIs and three T20i matches from November 22 to December 22.