The host Bangladesh is going to play a full series against Ireland with the happy memory of whitewashing the world champion England in T20. In the first match of the series, the Tigers set a record in the batting frenzy of the world’s best all-rounder Shakib Al Hasan and the anointed Touhid Hriday. The representatives of red green have put up a huge collection of 338 runs on the scoreboard after losing 8 wickets in the scheduled 50 overs.

Earlier, Bangladesh’s highest score was 333 runs. Bangladesh set this record in June 2019 chasing runs against the powerful Australia. Batting first against South Africa in the same month, the Tigers scored 330 runs. Tamim Iqbal’s team broke their past record.

Bangladesh lost the toss and went into bat against the Irish at the Sylhet International Cricket Stadium on Saturday (March 18). However, like the England series, Tiger captain Tamim also failed against the Irish. Tamim caught Paul Sterling at slip off Mark Adair in the third over of the innings. The Bangladesh captain got out after scoring 3 runs off 9 balls.

After that, another opener Liton Das was leading the innings by forming a pair with Nazmul Hossain Shanto. However, their 34-run pair was broken by Liton’s 26-run dismissal in the team’s 49-run. In the tenth over, Litton got out with a catch to Sterling at cover off Curtis Campher.

Then Nazmul Hossain Shanto was dismissed as the third batsman for 81 runs. 25 runs from this batsman before departure. After that, Shakib Al Hasan tied the pair with debutant Towhid Hriday for the fourth wicket. The two of them put on a huge stand of 135 runs to pave the way for a big collection.

But Shakib missed the century by just 7 runs, becoming the second Bangladeshi to reach the milestone of 7000 runs in ODIs. His innings of 93 runs off 89 balls had 9 boundaries. After that, Mushfiqur Rahim started to bat. He scored 44 runs off 26 balls.

At the other end, Tauhid Hridoy was also batting hard. It seemed that he would create history by scoring a century on debut. But Hridoy went to the home of the nervous Nineties and was dismissed for 92 runs. In all, Bangladesh scored 338 runs after losing 8 wickets in the stipulated 50 overs.