Tigers played series of many 'pain and gain'

The just-late Zimbabwe series showed both the sides of the coin to Bangladesh cricket whiz. Without Shakib Al Hasan and Tamim Iqbal, they succumbed badly to the table quenching Zimbabwe in Sylhet but revived them in Dhaka.
Dhaka Test win over visiting side is more of victory for Tigers since had been facing their rainy days of Test cricket throughout the year. Before this victory they lost four Tests in a row, against which they had lone draw with Sri Lanka in January-February this year at home.
After successive eight below-200 totals, Bangladesh fired-up their spirit and proved their efficiency. They accumulated 110 and 123 runs against Sri Lanka in February followed by four innings of 43, 144, 149 and 168 against Windies in Jun-July, who collected 143 and 181 runs' against Zimbabwe in Sylhet couple of weeks ago.
Thus, twin innings declaration, the 522 for seven in the first innings and 224 for six in the second, must ease Bangladesh batters mental-block in Test. Specially, after the run flows from the Tigers Test batting pillars. Mominul Haque, who has been termed as the 'Bradman of Bangladesh', got his rhythm in Dhaka and scored 161 in the first innings. He picked-up his seventh Test century.
Mr. Dependable, Mushfiqur Rahim got his form back with setting many records. His career best 219 runs' knock is the highest individual Test innings total by any Bangladesh batter. He became the first Tiger to bag couple of Test double tons and solitary wicketkeeper of the world to have the unique record.
Mahmudullah Riyad scored 86 from his nine innings before Dhaka Tests. His scoring figures were 28, 17, 6, 0, 4, 0, 15, 0 and 16. He also had shine with the bat in Dhaka. He scored his second Test century, who took eight years and 35 Test matches between two hundreds.
The genuine all-rounder Mehidy Hasan Miraz bat at number eight or nine and usually being treated as the full time off-break bowler. Although, the man of the series of the Under-19 World Cup 2016, scored 242 runs and took 12 wickets playing six matches. He, however, had represented his all-round performances in the newly-finished Test. Miraz remained unbeaten in both the innings scoring 68 and 27 runs, who hunted eight wickets with a fifer. Miraz grasped total of 11 wickets in the series.
Lefty armour Taijul Islam hunted 18 wickets and served the best in absence of Shakib Al Hasan. He hauled his sixth fifer and three in a row in the series.
Among the new experiments Nazmul Hasan Shanto failed once again but Mohammad Mithun proved his capability, who got his maiden Test fifty wearing maiden cap.
Bangladesh used four fast bowlers in two Tests and the whole unit remained futile in the series. Mustafizur Rahman, Abu Jayed Rahi and Ariful Haque preyed one wicket each while debutant Khaled Ahmed remained wicketless. Zimbabwean pacers trio, showed the contrast picture. Kyle Jarvis took 10 wickets Tendai Chatara and Donald Tiripano picked three wickets each from respective lone appearances. So, this is the area, where Bangladesh think tank need to focus on.