<a href="https://www.cricket.com/players/63206/litton-das/career-stats" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">Litton Das</a> and <a href="https://www.cricket.com/players/3903/tamim-iqbal/career-stats" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">Tamim Iqbal</a> breezed past Ireland&#39;s dismal 101-run total in less than 14 overs for Bangladesh&#39;s first-ever 10-wicket win, sealing a 2-0 series victory during Thursday&#39;s final one-day-international in Sylhet.&nbsp;Litton was unbeaten on 50 alongside Tamim with 41, both untroubled by an Irish bowling attack that served up 10 wides and a leg bye. Pacer <a href="https://www.cricket.com/players/67672/hasan-mahmud/career-stats" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">Hasan Mahmud</a> claimed his maiden five-wicket ODI haul while conceding only 32 runs after the tourists elected to bat first.Taskin Ahmed and Ebadot Hossain also shone with the ball to claim 3-26 and 2-29 respectively, with Ireland recording the lowest one-day score against Bangladesh.&quot;The way we played the whole series was very nice. Now I can proudly say we have a solid, solid, solid fast-bowling department,&quot; said skipper Tamim, according to ESPNCricinfo.&quot;We need to keep believing in our players, there will be ups and downs but we have the unit to be the best in the world,&quot; he said.&quot;The wicket was very good, the way we chased down with authority was a message.&quot;<a href="https://www.cricket.com/players/67442/curtis-campher/career-stats" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">Curtis Campher</a> top-scored with 36, while <a href="https://www.cricket.com/players/66087/lorcan-tucker/career-stats" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">Lorcan Tucker</a> made 28 after surviving a golden duck when Litton dropped his catch at slip. &quot;We&#39;re very disappointed. Don&#39;t think the cricket over the past three days reflects the type of cricket we&#39;ve played in the last 2-3 years,&quot; said Ireland captain Andy Balbirnie.&quot;We did expect spin to play a big part, but our defence with the bat wasn&#39;t good enough. We did not adapt well enough.&quot;Hasan struck in his opening spell to leave Ireland tottering at 22-3 in the ninth over. Taskin then removed Balbirnie for six before Tucker turned up the aggression to hit Ebadot for three fours in one over.Ebadot soon had his revenge, taking two wickets in two balls, and Taskin sealed Ireland&#39;s collapse with a double strike in his seventh over. Bangladesh won Saturday&#39;s opener by 183 runs, with Monday&#39;s second match washed out by rain. The drubbing was Bangladesh&#39;s first 10-wicket win in any format, with the hosts smashing records in each match.Saturday&#39;s opener marked their biggest ODI victory margin. Then on Monday they recorded their highest ODI total with 349-6, Mushfiqur Rahim scoring the fastest ODI century by a Bangladeshi batsman by smashing his ton off 60 balls. &nbsp;Ireland will also play three Twenty20 internationals and a Test during their visit.Brief scores:Ireland 101 in 28.1 overs (Curtis Campher 36, Lorcan Tucker 28; Hasan Mahmud 5 for 32) lost to Bangladesh 102 for 0 in 13.1 overs (Litton Das 50*, Tamim Iqbal 41*) by 10 wicketsPlayer of the match: Hasan MahmudPlayer of the series: Mushfiqur RahimPowered by <a href="https://www.froala.com/wysiwyg-editor?pb=1" title="Froala Editor">Froala Editor</a>

The hosts won the third game by 10 wickets, chasing 102 down in just 13.1 overs

Litton Das

Tamim Iqbal

Hasan Mahmud

Ireland tour of Bangladesh, 2023

Ireland

Bangladesh

All-round Bangladesh breeze past Ireland to clinch ODI series

Uncapped Bangladeshi cricketers Rishad Hossain and Jaker Ali Anik were named to the Bangladesh squad Wednesday (March 22) for next week&#39;s three-match T20 International (T20I) series against Ireland.Leg-spinner Rishad, 20, has shown promise in domestic matches, while 25-year-old wicketkeeper-batsman Anik was a crucial member of the Comilla Victorians&#39; title-winning team this year. Batter Afif Hossain, left-arm spinner Tanvir Islam and wicketkeeper-batter Nurul Hasan, all part of the squad that thrashed world champions England earlier this month, have been excluded.All three T20 matches against Ireland will be played in the port city of Chittagong on March 27, 29 and 31. Bangladesh are currently playing a three-match One-Day International (ODI) series against Ireland.They won the first by 183 runs and notched a record 349 runs in the second before rain saw the match called off. The third and final ODI will be held in Sylhet on Thursday, and the series will end with a Dhaka Test from April 4-8.Bangladesh T20I squad vs Ireland: Shakib Al Hasan (c), Liton Das, Rony Talukdar, Najmul Hossain, Towhid Hridoy, Shamim Hossain, Mehidy Hasan Miraz, Nasum Ahmed, Mustafizur Rahman, Hasan Mahmud, Taskin Ahmed, Shoriful Islam, Rishad Hossain, Jaker Ali Anik.Powered by <a href="https://www.froala.com/wysiwyg-editor?pb=1" title="Froala Editor">Froala Editor</a>

The duo were part of the side that completed a 3-0 whitewash against England at home recently

Afif Hossain

Nurul Hasan

Bangladesh drop Afif Hossain, Nurul Hasan for Ireland T20Is

Heading into the three-match series against Ireland, Bangladesh had never scored more than 333 in a 50-over game but two games in, the Tigers have already broken their own record not once, but twice. In the first ODI in Sylhet, onslaughts from <a href="https://www.cricket.com/players/3782/shakib-al-hasan/career-stats" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">Shakib Al Hasan</a> and debutant <a href="https://www.cricket.com/players/67719/towhid-hridoy/career-stats" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">Towhid Hridoy</a> enabled them to post what was then their highest ever ODI total (338/8) but astonishingly enough, they ended up breaking it just two days later, amassing 349/6 in the second game which unfortunately had to be abandoned due to rain.Power-hitting and quick run-scoring is something that Bangladesh have struggled with for the longest time, but <a href="https://www.cricket.com/players/63206/litton-das/career-stats" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">Liton Das</a> believes the side&rsquo;s sizzling showing with the bat across the first two ODIs is an excellent sign in a World Cup year where the Tigers potentially could prove to be dark horses.&quot;I think these runs are important in ODIs,&rdquo; Liton said after the second ODI.&ldquo;Big teams often get hundred or close to hundred runs in the last ten overs. It was a challenge for us. We have been talking about how we can get 100 runs in the last ten overs of a T20I too, so it is a good sign that we have started to do it.&quot;Everyone is batting with intent in the middle overs [10-40]. It is a good intent. They are not just targeting big sixes but the focus is on ones, twos and fours.&rdquo;That the Tigers ended up breaking their own record for the second time in three days was down to the stunning onslaught from <a href="https://www.cricket.com/players/3693/mushfiqur-rahim/career-stats" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">Mushfiqur Rahim</a>, who ended up scoring the fastest ever ODI hundred by a Bangladeshi batter, getting to the three-figure mark in just 60 balls.The hosts were 190/4 in the 34th over when Rahim walked in but courtesy his stunning ton, they nearly ended up breaching the 350-mark, amassing 159 off the final 16.4 overs in the innings.Liton was full of praise for the former skipper&rsquo;s knock.&quot;Watching his innings was a great feeling,&quot; Litton said of Mushfiqur&rsquo;s ton.&quot;I have never seen a Bangladeshi batter score a hundred towards the end. When someone plays such a knock in the team, it looks good. When a senior plays such a knock, it is even better. His first ODI knock was amazing too. He made 40-plus but it created a big margin to get a 300-plus total. His innings today really made it a different ball-game.&quot;Top four batters, particularly in ODI cricket, are always told to target &lsquo;hundreds&rsquo; but Liton believes they must not merely be satisfied with a three-figure score and will need to eye daddy hundreds.&nbsp;Both he and Najmul Shanto got dismissed in the 70s and the 28-year-old, who has a highest ODI score of 176, believes they could easily have ended up scoring over 150 had they managed to stay put till the end.&quot;The top four batters want to finish the innings, which these days can even mean a double-hundred. Century shouldn&#39;t be a target. If Shanto and I had batted till the 45th over, we could have got 150-180. We were batting quite well. I had a soft dismissal, Shanto was unlucky. But Mushfiq bhai played a spectacular knock, way better than our efforts,&quot; he said.&nbsp;Powered by <a href="https://www.froala.com/wysiwyg-editor?pb=1" title="Froala Editor">Froala Editor</a>

Twice in the span of three days, the Tigers have ended up breaking their own record 

Liton Des

Mushfiqur Rahim

Bangladesh’s drastically-improved batting intent a very good sign, says Liton Das 

<a href="https://www.cricket.com/players/3782/shakib-al-hasan/career-stats" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">Shakib Al Hasan</a> and debutant <a href="https://www.cricket.com/players/67719/towhid-hridoy/career-stats" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">Towhid Hridoy</a> both narrowly missed centuries but still guided Bangladesh to a record 183-run victory over Ireland in Saturday&#39;s first One-Day International in Sylhet.Shakib hit 93 and Towhid added 92 to guide Bangladesh to their highest-ever ODI score of 338-8 after the tourists put them in to bat. Ebadot Hossain led the reply with 4-42 and left-arm spinner Nasum Ahmed chipped in with 3-42 to bowl out Ireland for 155 runs just shy of 31 overs.George Dockrell was the last man dismissed after making 45, Ireland&#39;s highest total. Stephen Doheny and Paul Stirling put on 60 runs in the opening stand but once Shakib dismissed Doheny for 34 Ireland collapsed to 5-76, never to recover.&quot;We were not too disappointed at the halfway stage as the wicket was good and the best time was to bat under lights,&quot; Ireland captain Andrew Balbirnie said. &quot;But we kept losing wickets and didn&#39;t get any partnerships.&quot;Graham Hume finished with a career-best 4-60 but the hosts shrugged off early pressure from the Irish bowling attack. Shakib and Towhid added 135 for the fourth wicket to lift Bangladesh from 81-3 after Tamim (3), Litton Das (26) and Najmul Hossain (25) all fell cheaply.Shakib became the second Bangladeshi cricketer to reach 7,000 ODI runs after Tamim. Shakib is now also just the third cricketer to surpass that milestone in ODI runs and 300 ODI wickets after Sri Lanka&#39;s Sanath Jayasuriya and Pakistan&#39;s Shahid Afridi.He shifted gears after reaching his third successive ODI fifty and hitting Harry Tector for five fours in an over. He fell seven runs short of his 10th ODI hundred after chasing a wide yorker from Hume to get the bottom edge.Towhid played the best debut innings for Bangladesh in ODIs, adding 80 runs for the fifth wicket with Mushfiqur Rahim, who struck 44 off 26 balls. Hume removed both batsmen in the same over before taking the wicket of Taskin Ahmed but the tourists were unable to stop the flow of runs.The remaining ODIs will be played in Sylhet on Monday and Thursday. Ireland, who will also play three Twenty20 Internationals and a Test during their tour, last visited Bangladesh for a bilateral series in 2008.Powered by <a href="https://www.froala.com/wysiwyg-editor?pb=1" title="Froala Editor">Froala Editor</a>

The two batters missed out on centuries but propelled Bangladesh to their highest-ever ODI score

Shakib Al Hasan

Towhid Hridoy

Graham Hume

George Dockrell

Ebadot Hossain

Nasum Ahmed

Shakib, Towhid set up record Bangladesh win against Ireland

Ireland skipper <a href="https://www.cricket.com/players/4454/andy-balbirnie/career-stats" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">Andrew Balbirnie</a> took some pressure off his teammates Friday by saying that he was fine with losing in Bangladesh -- so long as they enjoyed themselves.Balbirnie leads Ireland Saturday through the first of three one-day internationals at Sylhet -- valuable white-ball series ahead of this year&#39;s ODI World Cup in India.Bangladesh start as rank favourites having won seven of their past 10 ODIs against Ireland, including all four at home, but the captain said he was not benchmarking the tourists&#39; performance on victories.&quot;I think our message to the group over a number of years now has been the performance... that&#39;s the thing we are trying to improve on,&quot; Balbirnie told reporters Friday.&quot;If we win a game, great, if we don&#39;t that&#39;s fine as long as we are playing a certain way and we are enjoying our cricket,&quot; he added.The ODI series will be followed by three Twenty20s and Ireland&#39;s first Test in more than three years -- and only the fourth since the minnows were granted Test status in 2017.&quot;It will be a challenge for our group no doubt going from one-day to T20 to Test matches. But that&#39;s what we have to do in international cricket,&quot; Balbirnie said.&quot;We have to sort of back ourselves, back each other as optimum as possible, no matter what the format is. And we can play some good cricket along the way,&quot; he added.Bangladesh are fresh from their 3-0 T20 sweep at home against England -- their first series victory against the side in any format -- but are battling some injury concerns.Skipper Tamim Iqbal is sick with a viral infection and may miss the first ODI.Backup opener Zakir Hasan was ruled out with a thumb injury, while all-rounder Mehidy Hasan injured his eyes during Friday training and had to seek hospital treatment.The hosts have called up uncapped Rony Talukdar for injured Zakir.Coach Chandika Hathurusingha said the series was an opportunity for Bangladesh to test its bench strength but warned against complacency.&quot;Winning is always our aim whoever we play,&quot; Hathurusingha told reporters.&quot;No team is easy in international cricket. They beat England during the World Cup. On their day, any team can beat anyone.&quot;The remaining ODIs will be staged in Sylhet on March 20 and 23.Powered by <a href="https://www.froala.com/wysiwyg-editor?pb=1" title="Froala Editor">Froala Editor</a>

The Ireland skipper was in high spirits ahead of his side's month-long tour of Bangladesh

Performance as important as results: Andrew Balbirnie

Ireland are set to lock horns against Bangaldesh in a seven-match multi-format series, and <a href="https://www.cricket.com/players/67442/curtis-campher/career-stats" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">Curtis Campher</a> is excited by the prospect of playing in Asian conditions along with a potential Test debut on the cards in the first week of April.&nbsp;The two sides will lock horns in the three ODIs and T20Is starting on Saturday, March 18, in Sylhet and will conclude with the final T20I on Friday, March 31, at Chattogram.&nbsp;After three days of break, they are set for a historic Test match at the Shere Bangla National Stadium in Dhaka starting April 4. Ahead of the series, Campher shared his thoughts on the upcoming matches after his first training session in Bangaldesh.&nbsp;&ldquo;I think when you&rsquo;re travelling this distance, you try to get over the jet lag as quickly as possible. You try to implement a few things and try not to have naps. It&rsquo;s always great to get a nice little run around, play a bit of football with the lads, and have a light hit,&quot; he said.&nbsp;&quot;It was a good day to try and get acclimatised, get used to the sun, and the heat and the humidity, and to get out of the hotel, of course,&quot; he added.&nbsp;The 23-year-old made his international debut in 2020 and has been an integral part of Ireland&#39;s rise in the world arena, with 915 runs and 35 wickets across two white-ball formats, including two T20 World Cup appearances.&nbsp;He was also part of the Chattogram Challengers in the Bangladesh Premier League and feels the experience of playing in the league will be beneficial for the team heading into the series.&nbsp;&ldquo;The Bangladesh Premier League (BPL) experience definitely helped me come back to Sylhet, having played here before. We&rsquo;ve got a warm-up game during the day, which is a little bit different. I&#39;ve only played day-nighters here, but I think the One-Day internationals will be day-nighters, so that&#39;ll be good preparation,&quot; Campher said.&nbsp;&quot;I&#39;ve really enjoyed the BPL. It was really good for me on a personal level because I got to experience the crowd, the wickets, and how the surface reacted a bit differently. I think watching a bit of the England series, the ball is really turning quite sharply, so we do expect it to turn quite a bit.&nbsp;&quot;However, in saying that, It&rsquo;s been a good batting track. Even after today&#39;s nets, the wickets played really nicely, so I think it&#39;s going to be hard for both batters and bowlers with the conditions as it should be really warm, but we&rsquo;re really looking forward to getting going,&quot; he further added.&nbsp;The all-rounder also stated that if he gets selected to feature in the playing XI of the one-off Test, it will be the highlight of his career, and he looks forward to contributing to the sport in the red-ball format.&nbsp;&ldquo;If selected to play in the Test match, that would be one of the highlights of my cricket career. Obviously, Test Cricket is the highest and purest form of the game, and thankfully a lot of people share the same opinion. It&#39;s something that would be amazing to do. It&#39;s not an easy place to play Test cricket, but I think that&#39;s what you want.&quot;&quot;You want to test yourself. Test cricket is the hardest format, and it&#39;s going to be really tough out here. They&rsquo;ve got a great record at home. To be a part of it would be amazing for me. And hopefully, we can maybe get the first Test win for Ireland,&quot; he concluded.&nbsp;Powered by <a href="https://www.froala.com/wysiwyg-editor?pb=1" title="Froala Editor">Froala Editor</a>

The all-rounder shared insights on the preparations of the team ahead of the series against Bangaldesh and the excitement of donning the Test whites

Curtis Campher

Playing a Test match would be the highlight of my career: Curtis Campher

Bangladesh have rested their star all-rounder <a href="https://www.cricket.com/players/3956/mahmudullah/career-stats" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">Mahmudullah</a> for the first two ODIs of the three-match ODI series against Ireland. The three-match series will kick-off on March 18, with the last two ODIs on March 20 and 23, with the all-rounder set to return to the setup for the final clash.&nbsp;Alongside that, the two teams will also play a three-match T20I series followed with a one-off Test, that will begin in Dhaka from April 4. In a conversation with publication Cricbuzz, BCB&rsquo;s chief selector, Minhajul Abedin insisted that Bangladesh are looking forward to trying out different combinations.&nbsp;&quot;We have rested Mahmudullah in the series and we are looking forward trying out other options that we have at the moment. We have to see our different combinations as we are preparing our team for the next World Cup but his omission certainly does not imply that everything is over for him,&quot; BCB chief selector Minhajul Abedin told Cricbuzz on Sunday.Alongside that, uncapped batter, Zakir Hasan, who starred in the two-match Test series against India too has been included. Zakir has previously played for Bangladesh in the shortest format too, before making his Test debut last year.&nbsp;Squad: Tamim Iqbal (Captain), Litton Kumer Das, Najmul Hossain Shanto, Shakib Al Hasan, Mushfiqur Rahim, Afif Hossain, Yasir Ali Chowdhury, Towhid Hridoy, Mehidy Hasan Miraz, Nasum Ahmed, Taskin Ahmed, Ebadot Hossain Chowdhury, Mustafizur Rahman, Hasan Mahmud, Shoriful Islam, Zakir HasanPowered by <a href="https://www.froala.com/wysiwyg-editor?pb=1" title="Froala Editor">Froala Editor</a>

The all-rounder has been rested from the opening two ODIs of the series

Mahmudullah

Bangladesh rest Mahmudullah for Ireland ODIs

Chandika Hathurusingha has made a comeback to his old role of coaching Bangladesh, replacing Russell Domingo, who resigned in acrimonious circumstances even though his contract ran till the end of the 50-Over World Cup in India. Further, Bangladesh moving away from the split coaching formula, Hathurusingha will be in charge of all three sides, and there are no reports on the role of Sridharan Sriram.&nbsp;&quot;It&#39;s an honour to have been given this opportunity to coach the Bangladesh national team once again. I really loved the warmth of the people and the culture of Bangladesh whenever I have been there. I&#39;m looking forward to working with the players once again and enjoying their successes,&quot; Hathurusingha said in a press release.The former Sri Lanka all-rounder was the head coach of the Bangladesh side that had tremendous success including ODI series against India, Pakistan, and South Africa, alongside achieving Test victories versus Sri Lanka, England, and Australia during a three-year period between 2014 and 2017. Hathurusingha also went on to have various coaching positions with Sri Lanka, Canada, NSW, and Sydney Thunder.&quot;Chandika&#39;s experience and knowledge of Bangladesh cricket will be an advantage for him and will benefit the players. He is a proven tactician and we have seen his impact on the national team during his first assignment,&rdquo; BCB chief executive Nizamuddin Chowdhury said.&nbsp;Powered by <a href="https://www.froala.com/wysiwyg-editor?pb=1" title="Froala Editor">Froala Editor</a>

Hathurusingha will be in charge of all three sides as there are no reports on the role of Sridharan Sriram for now

Chandika Hathurusingha

Chandika Hathurusingha returns as Bangladesh head coach

Ireland will finally play a Test match after a gap of close to four years during their multi-format tour of Bangladesh in March and April, the Cricket Ireland confirmed on Monday (January 23). Apart from a five-day game in Dhaka, Ireland will also play three ODIs in Sylhet and as many T20Is in Chattogram.Ireland played their first Test against Pakistan in May 2018 but have played only two more red-ball games since then. Their second Test came against Afghanistan in March 2019 and played another one against England in July 2019. They don&rsquo;t have a great record in this format as they have lost all these Tests. This will also be Ireland&rsquo;s first bilateral tour of Bangladesh since 2008.&quot;We are delighted to confirm Ireland men&#39;s seven-match, multi-format tour of Bangladesh - and thank the BCB for their cooperation and support in agreeing this month-long tour. Since the two sides first met in 1997, there has been a great on-field rivalry formed and we look forward to what looks set to be another competitive series,&quot; said Cricket Ireland chief executive Warren Deutrom.&quot;Of particular interest to players and fans alike will no doubt be the last fixture on the schedule - the match marks Ireland&#39;s return to playing Test cricket. It will undoubtedly be a challenging experience in Asian conditions for our squad, but it will be invaluable to our players&#39; development knowing that we will be playing a great deal of cricket in Asia over the coming years.&quot;Meanwhile, BCB chief executive Nizamuddin Chowdhury said: &quot;Ireland&#39;s visit to Bangladesh is another exciting event in our home season after the series against India and England,&quot; Chowdhury said. &quot;The BCB and Cricket Ireland have a cordial and strong relationship and the two boards have worked very closely to arrange this bilateral tour despite the challenges of a busy international calendar. This is also a statement of the BCB&#39;s commitment to the ICC FTP.&quot;The Three ODIs will be played on March 18, 20 and 23, while the T20Is will happen on March 27, 29 and 31. Meanwhile, the one-off Test will be played in Dhaka from April 4.Powered by <a href="https://www.froala.com/wysiwyg-editor?pb=1" title="Froala Editor">Froala Editor</a>

Ireland are scheduled to play three ODIs, as many T20Is and a one-off Test during their tour of Bangladesh

IRELAND TOUR OF BANGLADESH 2023

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