Bangladeshi national cricket team in Pakistan in the 2003 season

The tour of the Bangladeshi national cricket team to Pakistan in the 2003 season took place from August 20 to September 21, 2003. The international cricket tour was part of the 2003 international cricket season and included three tests and five ODIs . Pakistan won the Test Series 2-0 and the ODI Series 5-0.

prehistory

Pakistan previously played a tour in England , Bangladesh in Australia . The last meeting of the two teams on a tour took place in the 2001/02 season in Bangladesh .

Stages

The following stages were designated as the venue for the tour and announced on July 15, 2003.

Faisalabad Karachi Lahore Multan Peshawar Rawalpindi

Tour venues

Stadion	city	capacity	Games
Iqbal Stadium	Faisalabad	18,000	2. ODI
National Stadium	Karachi	34,228	1st test; 5. ODI
Gaddafi Stadium	Lahore	60,000	3. ODI
Multan Cricket Stadium	Multan	30,000	3rd test; 1. ODI
Arbab Niaz Stadium	Peshawar	20,000	2nd test
Rawalpindi Cricket Stadium	Rawalpindi	25,000	4. ODI

Squad lists

Pakistan named its test roster on August 16 and its ODI roster on September 8, 2003. Bangladesh named its test roster on August 17, 2003.

test		ODI
Pakistan	Bangladesh	Pakistan	Bangladesh
Rashid Latif ( K & wk ) Danish Kaneria Farhan Adil Inzamam-ul-Haq Misbah-ul-Haq Mohammad Hafeez Mohammad Yousuf Salman Butt Saqlain Mushtaq Shabbir Ahmed Shoaib Akhtar Shoaib Malik Taufeeq Umar Umar Gul Yasir Ali Yasir Hameed Younis Khan	Khaled Mahmud ( K ) Alamgir Kabir Alok Kapali Habibul Bashar Hennan Sarkar Javed Omar Khaled Mashud ( wk ) Mohammad Ashraful Mohammad Rafique Rajin Saleh Sanwar Hossain Tapash Baisya	Inzamam-ul-Haq ( K ) Abdul Razzaq Imran Nazir Junaid Zia Kamran Akmal ( wk ) Mohammad Hafeez Mohammad Sami Mohammad Yousuf Shabbir Ahmed Shoaib Malik Umar Gul Yasir Hameed Younis Khan	Khaled Mahmud ( K ) Alok Kapali Habibul Bashar Hennan Sarkar Hasibul Hossain Khaled Mashud ( wk ) Mashrafe Mortaza Mohammad Ashraful Mohammad Rafique Mushfiqur Rahman Rajin Saleh Sanwar Hossain Tapash Baisya Tushar Imran

Testing

First test in Karachi

August 20-24 Scorecard	Karachi	Bangladesh 288 (86.3) & 274 (114.1)	-	Pakistan 346 (117) & 217-3 (70)
		Pakistan wins with 7 wickets

Second test in Peshawar

August 27-30 scorecard	Peshawar	Bangladesh 361 (137.5) & 96 (33.5)	-	Pakistan 295 (108.1) & 165-1 (47.3)
		Pakistan wins with 9 wickets

Third test in Multan

September 3-6 scorecard	Multan	Bangladesh 281 (99.2) & 154 (46.3)	-	Pakistan 175 (54.4) & 262-9 (91)
		Pakistan wins with 1 wicket

Bangladesh have long been in a good position but lost an important wicket to a controversial catch from Pakistani captain Rashid Latif . He dropped the ball, but claimed that the catch was correct. When television pictures showed the opposite, he was banned from the ODI series and no longer played any further tests for Pakistan. In 2009, Latif confirmed to Pakistani media that he had deliberately given false testimony.

One-day internationals

First ODI in Multan

September 9 scorecard	Multan	Pakistan 323-3 (50)	-	Bangladesh 186 (43.2)
		Pakistan wins with 137 runs

Second ODI in Faisalabad

September 12th scorecard	Faisalabad	Pakistan 243-8 (50)	-	Bangladesh 169 (42.1)
		Pakistan wins with 74 runs

Third ODI in Lahore

September 15 scorecard	Lahore	Pakistan 257-9 (50)	-	Bangladesh 226-5 (49.5)
		Pakistan wins with 5 wickets

Fourth ODI in Rawalpindi

September 18 scorecard	Rawalpindi	Bangladesh 222-8 (50)	-	Pakistan 226-5 (49.5)
		Pakistan wins with 5 wickets

Fifth ODI in Karachi

September 21 scorecard	Karachi	Pakistan 302-5 (50)	-	Bangladesh 244-7 (50)
		Pakistan wins with 58 runs

statistics

The following cricket statistics were obtained on this tour.

Testing
Batting
player	team	Games	Innings	Runs	Average	HS	100s	50s
Habibul Bashar	Bangladesh	3	6th	379	63.16	108	1	3
Yasir Hameed	Pakistan	3	6th	373	74.60	170	2	0
Inzamam-ul-Haq	Pakistan	3	5	226	75.33	138 *	1	0
Mohammad Hafeez	Pakistan	3	6th	214	42.80	102 *	1	1
Javed Omar	Bangladesh	3	6th	187	31.16	119	1	0
bowling
player	team	Games	Overs	Wickets	Average	BBI	5W	10W
Shabbir Ahmed	Pakistan	3	119	17th	20.05	5/48	1	0
Mohammad Rafique	Bangladesh	3	162.4	17th	23.82	5/36	2	0
Umar Gul	Pakistan	3	117.5	15th	25.00	4/58	0	0
Shoaib Akhtar	Pakistan	2	77.5	13	15.00	6/50	1	1
Khaled Mahmud	Bangladesh	3	99	11	23.36	4/37	0	0

ODIs
Batting
player	team	Games	Innings	Runs	Average	HS	100s	50s
Yousuf Youhana	Pakistan	5	5	366	91.50	106	1	3
Yasir Hameed	Pakistan	4th	4th	253	63.25	116	1	1
Inzamam-ul-Haq	Pakistan	5	5	238	119.00	64 *	0	3
Rajin Saleh	Bangladesh	5	5	211	42.20	71	0	2
Alok Kapali	Bangladesh	5	5	205	41.00	69	0	2
bowling
player	team	Games	Overs	Wickets	Average	BBI	5W	10W
Umar Gul	Pakistan	5	44	11	16.18	5/17	1	0
Abdul Razzaq	Pakistan	5	33	7th	19.71	3/32	0	0
Tapash Baisya	Bangladesh	3	25.5	6th	24.16	4/56	0	0
Mohammad Rafique	Bangladesh	5	50	6th	40.00	2/34	0	0
Mohammad Hafeez	Pakistan	5	30.2	5	31.00	3/17	0	0

Player of the Match

The following players were recognized as Player of the Match .

game	Player of the Match
1st test	Yasir Hameed
2nd test	Shoaib Akhtar
3rd test	Inzamam-ul-Haq
1. ODI	Yasir Hameed
2. ODI	Yousuf Youhana
3. ODI	Umar Gul
4. ODI	Yousuf Youhana
5. ODI	Yasir Hameed

Web links

• The series on Cricinfo

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Bangladesh tour schedule announced ( English ) Cricinfo. July 15, 2005. Retrieved December 17, 2016.
2. ↑ Inzamam recalled for Bangladesh series ( English ) Cricinfo. August 16, 2003. Retrieved January 28, 2017.
3. ↑ Inzamam handed captain's armband ( English ) Cricinfo. September 8, 2003. Retrieved January 28, 2017.
4. ↑ New cap named in Bangladesh squad ( English ) Cricinfo. August 17, 2003. Retrieved January 28, 2017.
5. ↑ Latif banned for five matches over disputed catch ( English ) Cricinfo. September 7, 2003. Retrieved January 28, 2017.
6. ↑ Mohammad Isam & Umar Farooq: 'Everyone cried in the dressing room' ( English ) Cricinfo. September 6, 2016. Retrieved January 28, 2017.
7. ↑ Rashid Latif admits to having claimed dropped catch ( English ) Cricinfo. November 11, 2009. Retrieved January 28, 2017.
8. ↑ Records / Bangladesh in Pakistan Test Series, 2003 / Most runs ( English ) Cricinfo. Retrieved February 2, 2017.
9. ↑ Records / Bangladesh in Pakistan Test Series, 2003 / Most wickets ( English ) Cricinfo. Retrieved February 2, 2017.
10. ↑ Records / Bangladesh in Pakistan ODI Series, 2003 / Most runs ( English ) Cricinfo. Retrieved February 2, 2017.
11. ↑ Records / Bangladesh in Pakistan ODI Series, 2003 / Most wickets ( English ) Cricinfo. Retrieved February 2, 2017.