Abul’s wicket-less seven ODIs

Abul Hasan Raju had an illustrious record in Test cricket—he shot to fame when he became the first No.10 to score a century on Test debut in 110 years. He achieved the feat against West Indies in Khulna in November 2012, even before he took the new ball - his primary role in the Bangladesh team. If someone looks at his stat, his average in Test batting will be shown 83. Someone might mistakenly deem him a batsman. He is not a specialist batsman, he is indeed fast bowler. But alas he didn’t take any single wicket in the six ODIs he played he before being dropped from the team in 2015. On the back of superb performance in domestic circuit, he was included in the team and got a match against Sri Lanka, considered as dead rubber for Bangladesh. However in this match, he failed to take a single wicket after delivering four overs and thereby his wicket-less journey stretched to seven matches. Not a record, that any bowler wants to be part of.

Sri Lanka join South Africa

A 10-wicket defeat to Sri Lanka is Bangladesh 12th all-wicket defeat to any team. And Sri Lankan joined South Africa to inflict this humiliating experience for the third time. Australia is the other team which gave Bangladesh such defeat more than one. England, West Indies and New Zealand are the other teams to give them Bangladesh this shameful experience.

After three and half years

Bangladesh were dismissed below 100, 17 times now after their latest 82 against Sri Lanka. The lowest was 58 against South Africa in 2011 World Cup at home soil and India, also at home den in June, 2014. After that in 2014 West Indies tour, they were bowled out for 70. And that was the last time as they started enjoying a purple patch in ODI cricket. However yesterday’s incident brought back 2014 again.

2nd biggest defeat in terms of balls remaining

When Sri Lanka raced to the victory, there were 229 balls remaining of the innings. It meant, it was Bangladesh’s second biggest defeat in terms of balls remaining. The biggest was against New Zealand who kept 264 balls unused against Bangladesh in 2007. Bangladesh scored 93 runs but New Zealand overhauled the target of 94 in just six overs with Brendan McCullum made the carnage, hitting 21 ball-80 not out.