Twitter Reactions: Kayes and Sarkar's blitz carve clean-sweep for Bangladesh

After a couple of one-sided matches, Bangladesh and Zimbabwe locked horns in the dead rubber at Zahur Ahmed Chowdhury Stadium in Chottogram. The home team already won the series and they managed to whitewash their opponents with a seven-wicket victory in the third match and it was mostly because of some blistering batting by the Bangladeshi top order.

Sean Williams propels visitors to a competitive score

After the Tigers won the toss and opted to bowl first, Zimbabwe lost a couple of early wickets in the form of both their openers. While left-armer Abu Hider Rony got rid of captain Hamilton Masakadza, Mohammad Saifuddin nipped out Cephas Zhuwao to reduce the visitors to 6/2 in the third over. However, Brendan Taylor and Sean Williams came to the party.

The duo put together 132 runs for the third wicket in merely 24 overs. Spinner Nazmul Islam Apu broke the stand by dismissing Taylor for 75. Nevertheless, Williams went on to score 129 runs from 143 balls with the help of 10 boundaries and a six. The knock lifted his team to 286 in 50 overs. Sikandar Raza and Peter Moor also contributed with 40 and 28 runs respectively.

Kayes and Sarkar wreak havoc

The run-chase started on a horrendous note for Bangladesh as Kyle Jarvis sent Liton Das packing for a golden duck in the very first ball of the innings. That turned out to be the only moment of joy for Masakadza’s men as Imrul Kayes and Soumya Sarkar cobbled together a mammoth 220 runs in the next 179 balls to take the sting out of the Zimbabwean bowling attack.

Sarkar plundered six sixes and nine boundaries in his 92-ball 117. Kayes was the calmer of the two batsmen and he finished with a knock of 115 from 112 balls with the help of 10 fours and a couple of sixes. Keeper-batsman Mushfiqur Rahim scored 28 runs, in the end, to build a fifty plus stand and complete the formalities of scoring the remaining runs.

Here is how Twitter reacted

Another Whitewash for Zimbabwe.
Bangladesh win by 7 wickets and take the series 3-0

Zimbabwe in their last 3 series :
0-5 vs Pakistan
0-3 vs South Africa
0-3 vs Bangladesh#BANvZIM #BANvsZIM pic.twitter.com/S4QCgokiAO

— Abhijeet (@TheYorkerBall) October 26, 2018

Mushi finishes off in style, a magnificent strike into the crowd.
Bangladesh wins the ODI series 3-0.

Chased down 287 in just 42.1 overs 😨#BANvZIM

— Deepak Sharma (@Imdeepak_s) October 26, 2018

Most runs in a 3-match ODI series:

360 Babar Azam v WI, 2016
349 Imrul Kayes v Zim, 2018 *
342 Q de Kock v Ind, 2013
330 M Guptill v Eng, 2013
312 Tamim Iqbal v Pak, 2015#BANvZIM pic.twitter.com/Nf9XoU9jH0

— Pankaj Bishnoi 🇮🇳 (@impankajbishnoi) October 26, 2018

Really love this friendly behavior#BANvZIM pic.twitter.com/4OSFZsVCs0

— Maruf Ashiful islam (@Maruf26) October 26, 2018

Three ODIs match in the series
The record for making the second highest score was made.

1. @baberazam258 360 Runs 3 century 💯vs Westindies.
2. @ImrulKayes45 349 Runs ( 2×century💯, 1×50 average 166.33 )
vs Zimbabwe.#BANvZIM

— Tanuj Singh (@TanujSi47701251) October 26, 2018

Imrul Kayes vs Zimbabwe in the three ODI matches :-

First ODI – 144(140)
Second ODI – 90(111)
Third ODI – 115(112) #BANvZIM pic.twitter.com/EHE2Dx0tlZ

— Johns (@CricCrazyJohns) October 26, 2018

Congratulation!! @ImrulKayes45. You played really well in this series. #BANvZim

— নীরব আত্মা (@MyslfSolayman) October 26, 2018

Thrilled to watch the innings of @soumya_sarkar and @imrul_kayes@BCBtigers congratulations both 👏👏#BANVZIM#ZIMvBAN #tigers

— Badhan Goswami🔮 (@JusticeBadhan) October 26, 2018

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