Watch: Taijul Islam's 3 wickets in 5 balls 

<h3>With two days more to go, Bangladesh need another 295 runs to win the Test.</h3>
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At stumps of day three at the Sylhet International Cricket Stadium, the first Test between Bangladesh and Zimbabwe is evenly poised with the home team require near about three hundred more runs to chase with all the wicket remaining in hand.

Bangladesh were 26 without lost in 10.1 overs when bad light stopped the play in pre winter evening at the picturesque Sylhet stadium. Litton Das and Imrul Kayes were unbeaten scoring 14 and 12 respectively.

Earlier in the day, Taijul Islam ripped through the Zimbabwean batting once again, claiming his first 10 wicket haul in Test cricket when he ended bagging the second fifer for the consecutive innings. Taijul’s figure stands tall among all the Bangladeshi bowlers figuring 5 for 62 in the second innings after 6 for 108 in the first innings. Zimbabwe bowled out for 181 in the second innings.

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Despite the valiant effort from Bangladesh spinners, the visitors managed to take the considerable lead crossing 300, credited by the horrific batting display from home team batsmen who furnished a big first innings lead to the opposition.

At the start of the second day, Mehedi Hasan lifted the spirit of the crowd dismissing the opposition skipper Hamilton Masakadza who became increasingly dangerous hitting good shots.

Taijul falsified Sean Williams on the way to a reverse sweep, and as soon as Williams departed, Zimbabwe lost the restrictions against the left arm orthodox bowler; he cleaned up rest of the batsmen in the line up in between several wicket taking deliveries from Miraz and Nazmul Islam Apu.

Brief Score:
Zimbabwe 1st innings 282 all out (117.3 overs)
Sean Williams 88, Peter Moor 63, Hamilton Masakadza 52
Taijul Islam 6/108, Nazmul Islam 2/49, Abu Jayed 1/68

Bangladesh 1st innings 143 all out (51 overs)
Ariful Haq 41, Mushfiqur Rahim 31, Mehedi Hasan Miraz 21
Tendai Chatara 3/19, Sikandar Raza 3/35

Zimbabwe 2nd innings 181 all out
Hamilton Masakadza 48, Brendon Taylor 24, Sikandar Raza 25

Taijul Islam 5/62, Mehedi Hasan Miraza 3/48, Nazmul Islam 2/27

Watch Taijul Islam's 3 wickets in 5 balls 

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Bangladesh 2nd innings 26/0 (10.1 overs)

Litton Das 14*, Imrul Kayes 12

Bangladesh need 295 runs.

Taijul only concentrates on his bowling

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Bangladesh spinner Taijul Islam has been one of the most overrated cricketer of the team who never gets much attention despite his outstanding entry into international cricket. [বাংলায় পড়ুনঃ <a href="http://bn.bdcrictime.com/2017/09/%e0%a6%ac%e0%a7%8b%e0%a6%b2%e0%a6%bf%e0%a6%82%e0%a7%9f%e0%a7%87%e0%a6%87-%e0%a6%b8%e0%a6%ac-%e0%a6%ae%e0%a6%a8%e0%a7%8b%e0%a6%af%e0%a7%8b%e0%a6%97-%e0%a6%a4%e0%a6%be%e0%a6%87%e0%a6%9c%e0%a7%81" target="_blank" rel="noopener">বোলিংয়েই সব মনোযোগ তাইজুলের</a>]

However, the 25-year-old spinner has been playing his role quietly without even thinking of the fact. According to him, he never wanted to become a superstar rather he always wants concentrate on his bowling so that he can give his best for his side.

“I never thought that I have to become a superstar in the Bangladesh team; I only concentrate on my bowling and the role I am given by the team management," Taijul said The Daily Star in his latest interview.

While talking about his role in the recently concluded Test series against Australia he claimed that he was given the role to contain runs and bowl in partnerships with other spinners of the side.

“I was given the role to contain runs and bowl in partnerships with Shakib bhai and Mehedi [Hasan] and I think they bowled really well too," he added.

Taijul who grabbed only 2 wickets in the Chittagong Test also said the Bangladeshi bowlers were unable to find the rhythm in that match.

"I tried to bowl in a tight line to unsettle the batsmen into making mistakes, but in the second Test in Chittagong I think we were unable to find the rhythm,” he concluded.

- Nazmus Sajid Chowdhury, Contributor, bdcrictime.com.

Beating Australia 2-0 not impossible, says Taijul

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Bangladeshi left arm spinner Taijul Islam is now the 5th Bangladeshi bowler to reach the 50 wicket milestone in Test matches. He reached this milestone in the 2nd innings of the Dhaka Test. However, the pressure of the match made Taijul unaware of his own achievement. [বাংলায় পড়ুন:<a href="http://bn.bdcrictime.com/2017/09/%e0%a6%b0%e0%a7%87%e0%a6%95%e0%a6%b0%e0%a7%8d%e0%a6%a1%e0%a7%87%e0%a6%b0-%e0%a6%95%e0%a6%a5%e0%a6%be-%e0%a6%9c%e0%a6%be%e0%a6%a8%e0%a6%a4%e0%a7%87%e0%a6%a8%e0%a6%87-%e0%a6%a8%e0%a6%be-%e0%a6%a4" target="_blank" rel="noopener">রেকর্ডের কথা জানতেনই না তাইজুল!</a>]

The match was in a tense position, with Australia requiring 21 runs to win and Bangladesh needing only 1 wicket to make history. At that tense moment Taijul came into the attack and trapped Australia's number 11 batsman Josh Hazlewood for a plumb lbw and history was created. The Bangladeshi players were overwhelmed with joy and Australian players were shell shocked at their defeat. Amidst all of this Taijul forgot that the wicket of Hazlewood was his 50th wicket in Test cricket.

"To be honest, at that moment it wasn't in my mind. We were under pressure on field at that moment and were only thinking about the fate of the match. I was  mainly focusing on winning the match."

Taijul took 4 wickets in the match, playing an important helping hand to Shakib Al Hasan and Mehedi Hasan Miraz. He played a crucial role in the 2nd innings, picking up the wickets of Handscomb, Ashton Agar and the final one of Hazlewood.

Taijul is hoping for a spinning track, similar to the Dhaka Test for the 2nd Test in Chittagong. He also urged his teammates to capitalize the opportunity presented before them and beat the Aussies 2-0 at home.

"I'm hoping for a similar wicket, to the one where they(Australia) lost- as it'll help us," Taijul said when asked about what type of wicket will he prefer in the 2nd Test."But just hoping won't win us the match, the batsmen and  the bowlers both will have to play well. Last year we beat England. We could've beaten them 2-0 too but missed the opportunity by a whisker. Beating Australia 2-0 is nothing impossible." 

    Ashfaq Niloy,Correspondent,bdcrictime.com

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Taijul unaware of his own milestone

Rain washed-out day-three's game

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Third day’s game between Mushfiqur Rahim’s BCB Red Team and Tamim Iqbal’s BCB Green Team, has been washed-out due to heavy rainfall in Chittagong. [বাংলায় পড়ুনঃ <a href="http://bn.bdcrictime.com/2017/08/%e0%a6%ac%e0%a7%83%e0%a6%b7%e0%a7%8d%e0%a6%9f%e0%a6%bf%e0%a6%b0-%e0%a6%aa%e0%a7%87%e0%a6%9f%e0%a7%87-%e0%a6%aa%e0%a7%8d%e0%a6%b0%e0%a6%b8%e0%a7%8d%e0%a6%a4%e0%a7%81%e0%a6%a4%e0%a6%bf-%e0%a6%ae" target="_blank" rel="noopener">বৃষ্টিতে পন্ড প্রস্তুতি ম্যাচের শেষ দিন</a>]

Both teams’ were looking to feature in third day’s game to complete their warm-up on a high prior to the Australia series. But, it could not happened.

In the three-day warm up match, most of the cricketers, who are in the line for national team call-up became successful, while senior cricketers like- Imrul Kayes, Tamim Iqbal, Mahmudullah Riyad alongside Liton Das, Sabbir Rahman failed rove their wrth.

After asking to bat first, Mushfiq and his co declared their first innings, adding 140 runs for losing 9 wickets on the scoreboard. Nazmul Hossain Shanto’s 53 was the highest scorer for his side. Mushfiq also scored 30 runs to post the total.

In reply, Tamim Iqbal’s BCB Green Team, got a lead of 143 runs. As BCB Red got a total of 283 runs in their first innings. By riding three fifties from Mominul Haque (73), Nasir Hossain (62) and Tanbir Hasan (51), Tamim and co got the lead.

Among the bowlers of BCB Red, <a href="https://scores.bdcrictime.com/players/rubel-hossain-358/">Rubel Hossain</a> and Saqlain bagged 3 wickets each while Taijul got 2  wickets.

In reply, BCB Red started their second innings in the last phase of second day and lost Imrul Kaye’s wicket to score 24 runs from 5 overs. Then rain interrupted the game. Later, umpires stumped day-two’s game.

Brief scores-
BCB Red team: 140/9 dec (1st innings)
BCB Green Team: 283/10 (Tamim 29, Liton 5, Mominul 73, Sabbir 10, Nasir 62, Tanbir 51, Sanjamul 22, Taskin 2, Rabbi 2, Shafiul 10 *, Mustafiz 2; Rubel 54/3 Saqlain 64/3, Taijul 80/2)

BCB Red team:  24/1 in second innings (Kayes 8, Soumya 9*, Shanto 7*, Mustafiz 3-0-12-1)

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Sunil Narine's batting inspires Taijul

Over the years, there have been numerous examples of cricketers who started out as bowlers or batsmen but sharpened their ability in the other department with time and eventually became specialist in that department for their sides.

Known as a specialist spinner for Bangladesh's Test side, Taijul Islam also had started his cricket career as a specialist batsman but later turned himself into a bowler. In a recent interview, Taijul has shared the story of turning into a bowler from a batsman.

"I was mainly an opening batsman but during playing u-18s cricket I got a lot of wickets. Later I was selected for u-19s team as a bowler," Taijul told.

He added, "On that time, I thought it would be difficult to maintain both batting and bowling at a time. I thought nothing would work perfectly if I concentrate on both. So I decided to concrete on bowling more."

In recent time, Sunil Narine who has stunned the cricketing world with his surprising batting in the top-order, is someone who can be an inspiration to the players like Taijul. And no surprise that Taijul also gets inspired seeing Narine's batting.

"Obviously, Sunil Narine's batting inspires me a lot. Chances were given to him and he proved himself successful. Other players also would be inspired seeing that," Taijul said.

He further added, "If I am asked now to open the innings or play attacking, I don't think I would be able to do that. But if a longer period of time like 6-7 months or a year is given to me, I would be able to do that. I have that confidence."

The 25-year old cricketer wants to be a better cricketer in all three departments which would help him to be a regular member for Bangladesh's ODI side too. He even now practice batting in the nets.

"It becomes easier to play in every formats of cricket when you can bat well. I will try to do well in all three batting-bowling-field departments and get a place in the ODI team," Taijul told.

"Mohammedan coach Sohel Islam gives opportunity to me to practice batting in the nets. But I am not a solid batsman yet. It has already been ten years since I was an opener," he concluded.

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Bangladesh national cricket team led by Mushfiqur Rahim left Dhaka for their month long tour of Sri Lanka on Monday (February 27). Members of the Bangladesh team departed from the Hazrat Shahjalal International Airport today at around 2 pm on a flight to Colombo, Sri Lanka.

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Photo Album: Tigers leave for Sri Lanka

The post lunch session of the day two of the second and last Test at the Sher – E – Bangla National Stadium in Dhaka went to England; the morning session disaster came to end dramatically for the visitors in the prolific acts of last two batsmen in the crease. The visitors completed their first innings taking a profitable 24 runs lead over Bangladesh in the first innings.
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Chris Woakes and Adil Rashid did the miracle for England; both of them exhibited superb show with the bat against some quality spin attack of Bangladesh. Chris Woakes fall on 46 runs when Mehedi Hasan Miraz hunted his sixth wicket in the innings for the second time in his two Test match career.
Meanwhile Adil Rashid remain unbeaten at 44 runs. The two teams went to lunch with Bangladesh leading by 57 runs and the mid-session of the day provided all those runs to England plus another 24 runs when they were ultimately packed up at 244 runs in the 81st over of the innings.
England gathered 99 runs in a splendid 9th wicket partnership between Adil Rashid and Chris Woakes. The last batsman Finn departed after adding one run on the board. Umpires call for an early Tea break and Bangladesh’s fate will entirely depend upon their second innings batting performance to take any sort of chances in this match in the fourth innings lately.
Youngster Mehedi Hasan Miraz starred once again with a six wicket haul; he conceded 82 runs while Taijul Islam took 3 for 65.
Watch the video of Miraz's 6 wickets-

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Watch: Miraz claims second 6-wicket haul

With one last day in hand, the first Test between Bangladesh and England is evenly poised; the home team needs another 33 runs to win meanwhile the visiting opponents will have to take another 2 wickets to seal the victory. The Tigers might rely on debutant Sabbir Rahman. The hard hitter is unbeaten at 59 along with Taijul Islam at 11.
Quick Link: <a href="http://livescores.bdcricteam.com/match/bangladesh-vs-england-17956/" target="_blank">খেলার স্কোরকার্ড দেখতে ক্লিক করুন এখানে</a>
Preceding Bangladesh began the post lunch session with 7 wickets in hand. With inform Mahmudullah Riyad on the crease, the Tigers hoped of something gracious but even a review could not save the middle order batsman this time. A straight delivery from Gareth Batty trapped Mahmudullah in front when he was on 17 (36 deliveries).
Shakib Al Hasan and Mushfiqur Rahim stood for a 32 run fifth wicket partnership before Shakib was the next man to back in the pavilion. This time Moeen Ali did the damage; once again the effective off break bowling from Moeen put England forward; the thick edge from Shakib was taken by Bairstow. Shakib departed scoring 24 off 39 deliveries.
The sixth wicket partnership between Mushfiqur Rahim and Sabbir Rahman showered huge prospect for the home team; the 87 runs taken between these two but once again Gareth Batty was on the show – the turning wicket of Zahur Ahmed Chowdhury Stadium facilitated any sort of spin all through the match and the extra bounce took the life of Mushfiqur in the crucial point of the match. The wicket keeper batsman scored 39 facing 124 deliveries. Mehedi Hasan Miraz came and go with no stone unturned.
Brief Score:
England 1st innings 293 all out
Moeen Ali 68, JM Bairstow 52
Mehedi Hasan Miraz 6/80
Bangladesh 1st innings 248 all out
Tamim Iqbal 78, Mushfiqur Rahim 48
Ben Stokes 4/26
England 2nd innings 240 all out
Ben Stokes 85
Shakib Al Hasan 5/85
Bangladesh 2nd innings 253/8
Sabbir Rahman 59*, Taijul Islam 11*
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Live: Bangladesh v England, 1st Test, Day-5

Debutant Mehedi Hasan Miraz punched the last blow in the England 1st innings as the visitors have been packed up scoring 293 runs in the morning session of the second day of the first Test at the Zahur Ahmed Chowdhury Stadium in the port city Chittagong.
The second day started dreamily for Bangladesh; the first delivery of the morning session brought the desired wicket of Chris Woakes who was settled in the crease overnight at the score of 36 (78 balls). Mominul Haque took the simple catch in the short leg off the bowling of Taijul Islam.
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The hundredth over of the match brought the penultimate disaster for the visiting side; Taijul Islam hunted his second wicket in the morning took Adil Rashid through a smart catch of Sabbir Rahman. The ball was flying, Sabbir dived left to grab the ball and the Tigers claimed the ninth wicket of the England first innings.
Mehedi Hasan, the eighteen year old all rounder who claimed his five wicket haul in the first day, came to bowl the 106th over of the match and finished things of for the Tigers. Wicket keeper Mushfiqur Rahim took the fine edge from the bat of the last English batsman Chris Broad and once again the decision was reviewed to be finalized.
Earlier England started the second day at 258 for the loss of 7 wickets.
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England bundled out for 293 runs in 1st innings

The fourth edition of Bangladesh Premier League is featured to start from 4 November. Before the kick off the tournament, franchises will be picking up their preferred cricketers in their squad from players draft, which will be held today. [Read in Bangla: <a href="http://bangla.bdcricteam.com/2016/09/%e0%a6%ac%e0%a6%bf%e0%a6%aa%e0%a6%bf%e0%a6%8f%e0%a6%b2%e0%a7%87-%e0%a6%aa%e0%a7%81%e0%a6%b0%e0%a6%a8%e0%a7%8b-%e0%a6%a6%e0%a6%b2%e0%a7%87-%e0%a6%a5%e0%a7%87%e0%a6%95%e0%a7%87-%e0%a6%af%e0%a6%be/" target="_blank">বিপিএলে পুরনো দলে থেকে যাওয়া ক্রিকেটাররা</a>]

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Although 144 local cricketers are included in the list of ‘players draft’, all of they won’t be available for the auction today, as many of the cricketers have been retained by their old franchises.

According to the decision of BPL technical committee, Each teams are getting chance to retained their two cricketers from the previous season of BPL. As a result, Five franchises of third edition BPL who are also eligble to participate in the fourth edition of BPL, have retained their two cricketers from their previous season.

It has learnt that, among the cricketers young talented batsman Mosaddek Hossain, Nasir hossain are retained by Dhaka Dynamites, Imrul Kayes and Litton Das have been retained by the defending champion Comilla Victorians, Taskin Ahmed and Anamul Haque by Chittagong Vikings, Arafat Sunny and Mohammad Mithun by Rangpur Riders and Barisal Bulls have retained  Al-Amin Hossain and Taijul Islam.

-Imran Hasan, Correspondent, bdcricteam.com

Ten cricketers retained by franchises

<img class="aligncenter wp-image-18175 size-medium" src="http://img.bdcrictime.com/2014/10/Taijul-islam-after-gettting-8-wickets-600x337.jpg" alt="CRICKET-BAN-ZIM" width="600" height="337" />Left arm orthodox spinner Taijul Islam made a history not only in Bangladesh but also in world cricket. His 8/39 is one of the best bowling figures in the history of test cricket as a left hander spinner. But Taijul is rather classical in his bowling style. He does not have much variation like modern left handed spinners, he likes to spot his ball in the same place with flight; but eventually it works. When he gave two flights in two consecutive deliveries, Sikandar Raza hit both of them for sixes; but Taijul did not seem distracted and gave another flight in the next ball which ultimately caused Sikandar Raza to get out. Shakib Al Hasan was the owner of the best bowling record for Bangladesh in test cricket before Taijul has broken it yesterday.

Taijul said that to be ordinary is his philosophy of bowling. He turns and bounces his ball simultaneously but it made him successful though till now. Taijul took 5 wickets in his debut test against West Indies and now he became the part of cricket history. When asked about his feeling, Taijul remarked, “I’m feeling really good. I couldn’t do well in the first innings so I wanted to do really well in the 2nd innings. I know it is the place to fight. It is hard to survive if one cannot perform well. I’m feeling good now to become successful” – it is indeed a quite honest realization that one has to do well in order to survive in the contest and Taijul is too young and inexperienced to have that realization.

Skipper Mushfiqur Rahim said, “He really works hard. He has a hunger for success”. In the just completed 1st test against Zimbabwe, Taijul was not only successful with his ball but also made crucial contributions with bat. He scored 19 in the 1st innings which helped Bangladesh to take a paltry lead at last. And in the nerve wrecking situation in the 2nd innings, Taijul made a knock of 15 runs at the late order. When the top and middle order batsmen collapsed chasing a minimal winning target of 100 runs, those 15 runs scored by Taijul paved the way of victory for Bangladesh.

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