Bangladesh defeated the visiting Ireland by a record margin of 183 runs in the first ODI. The second match was abandoned due to rain. Bangladesh will face Ireland today in the third and final match of the three-match series.

The Tigers are taking on the Irish at the Sylhet International Cricket Stadium at 2 pm on Thursday. The second match of the three-match series was washed away by rain, but the hosts are leading the series 1-0 after winning the first match. As a result, the Tigers have no option to win to win the series.

In the first ODI, Bangladesh collected the highest score of 338 runs in their history, in response, Ireland was bowled out for 155 runs. The Tigers won by a record score of 183 runs, Bangladesh tasted their biggest win by a run margin that day. Shakib Al Hasan scored 93 and Touhid Hridoy scored 92 runs. Ebadat Hossain took 4 wickets.

Bangladesh entered the field with the aim of winning the series in the second ODI. Team Tigers do everything they can with the bat to touch the target. Bangladesh got the team’s highest ODI collection with 349 runs, breaking the record of the previous match. Today, Mushfiqur Rahim scored the fastest ODI century for the country in just 60 balls. Moreover, Nazmul Hossain Shanto scored 73 and Liton Das scored 70 runs; 49 runs came from the bat of Hriday.

However, Bangladesh did not get the taste of victory even with such a huge collection in this match. The match was abandoned due to a tie. Mushfiqur Rahim’s brilliant century failed. The Irish didn’t even have to take the field to play a single ball.

Tigers will jump to win the series today, like in the previous two matches everyone will give their best. On the contrary, Ireland wants to avoid the series loss with the last win, wants to return the parity in the series.