Bangladeshi national cricket team in Zimbabwe in the 2000/01 season

The tour of the Bangladeshi national cricket team to Zimbabwe in the 2000/01 season took place from April 4 to April 26, 2001. The international cricket tour was part of the 2000/01 international cricket season and included two test matches and three ODIs . Zimbabwe won the test series 2-0 and the ODI series 3-0.

prehistory

Zimbabwe previously played a three-nation tournament in Australia , Bangladesh a test against India . It was the first tour of the two teams against each other after Bangladesh received Test status at the beginning of the season.

Stages

Bulawayo Harare

Tour venues

The following stages were designated as venues for the tour and announced on January 12, 2001.

Stadion	city	capacity	Games
Queens Sports Club	Bulawayo	9,000	3. ODI; 1st test
Harare Sports Club	Harare	10,000	1. ODI; 2. ODI; 2nd test

Squad

Zimbabwe named its ODI squad on April 3 and its test squad on April 17, 2001.

test		ODI
Zimbabwe	Bangladesh	Zimbabwe	Bangladesh
Heath Streak ( K ) Andy Blignaut Alistair Campbell Stuart Carlisle Dion Ebrahim Andy Flower ( wk ) Grant Flower Brian Murphy Mluleki Nkala Ray Price Brighton Watambwa Guy Whittall	Naimur Rahman ( K ) Habibul Bashar Enamul Haque Hasibul Hossain Mehrab Hossain Aminul Islam Manjural Islam Akram Khan Khaled Mashud ( wk ) Javed Omar Mushfiqur Rahman Naimur Rahman Al Sahariar Mohammad Sharif	Heath Streak ( K ) Andy Blignaut Alistair Campbell Stuart Carlisle Dion Ebrahim Andy Flower ( wk ) Grant Flower David Mutendera Bryan Strand Dirk Viljoen Guy Whittall	Naimur Rahman ( K ) Mohammad Ashraful Habibul Bashar Mehrab Hossain Aminul Islam Manjural Islam Akram Khan Khaled Mashud ( wk ) Javed Omar Mohammad Rafique Mushfiqur Rahman Naimur Rahman Al Sahariar Mohammad Sharif

Tour matches

April 4th scorecard	Harare	CFX Academy 183 (48.5)	-	Bangladesh 184-3 (32.2)
		Bangladeshis wins with 7 wickets

April 13-15 Scorecard	Bulawayo	Bangladeshis 333 (108.2) & 166 (53.5)	-	Zimbabwe A 222-8d (64.4) & 205-3 (42)
		draw

One-day internationals

First ODI in Harare

April 7th scorecard	Harare	Bangladesh 151-8 (50)	-	Zimbabwe 155-3 (43.1)
		Zimbabwe wins with 7 wickets

Second ODI in Harare

April 8th scorecard	Harare	Zimbabwe 230-7 (50)	-	Bangladesh 103 (30.4)
		Zimbabwe wins with 127 runs

Third ODI in Bulawayo

April 11th scorecard	Bulawayo	Zimbabwe 308-4 (50)	-	Bangladesh 272-8 (50)
		Zimbabwe wins with 36 runs

Test matches

First test in Bulawayo

April 19-22 Scorecard	Bulawayo	Bangladesh 257 (91.3) & 168 (58.3)	-	Zimbabwe 457 (138.4)
		Zimbabwe wins with one innings and 32 runs

Second test in Harare

April 26-30 Scorecard	Harare	Bangladesh 254 (120.5) & 266 (100)	-	Zimbabwe 421-9d (147.4) & 100-2 (24.3)
		Zimbabwe wins with 8 wickets

statistics

The following cricket statistics were obtained on this tour.

Testing
Batting
player	team	Games	Innings	Runs	Average	HS	100s	50s
Guy Whittall	Zimbabwe	2	3	238	79.33	119	1	2
Javed Omar	Bangladesh	2	4th	191	63.66	85 *	0	2
Habibul Bashar	Bangladesh	2	4th	164	41.00	76	0	2
Heath Streak	Zimbabwe	2	2	154	77.00	87	0	2
Grant Flower	Zimbabwe	2	2	152	76.00	84	0	2
bowling
player	team	Games	Overs	Wickets	Average	BBI	5W	10W
Heath Streak	Zimbabwe	2	91	11	15.81	4/38	0	0
Brighton Watambwa	Zimbabwe	2	66.5	9	21.55	4/64	0	0
Andy Blignaut	Zimbabwe	2	79	8th	25.50	5/73	1	0
Ray Price	Zimbabwe	1	60	7th	23.57	4/71	0	0
Manjural Islam	Bangladesh	2	78	6th	35.83	6/81	1	0

ODIs
Batting
player	team	Games	Innings	Runs	Average	HS	100s	50s
Grant Flower	Zimbabwe	3	3	174	174.00	142 *	1	0
Stuart Carlisle	Zimbabwe	3	3	138	69.00	56	0	1
Andy Flower	Zimbabwe	3	3	127	63.50	81	0	1
Alistair Campbell	Zimbabwe	3	3	108	36.00	103	1	0
Javed Omar	Bangladesh	3	3	105	52.50	69	0	1
bowling
player	team	Games	Overs	Wickets	Average	BBI	5W	10W
Andy Blignaut	Zimbabwe	3	28	6th	15.50	2/24	0	0
Bryan Strand	Zimbabwe	3	27	6th	16.33	3/56	0	0
David Mutendera	Zimbabwe	3	23.4	6th	18.66	3/23	0	0
Manjural Islam	Bangladesh	3	30th	5	24.00	3/37	0	0
Mohammad Sharif	Bangladesh	3	30th	4th	39.00	3/48	0	0

Player of the Series

The following players were honored as Player of the Series .

series	Player of the Series
test	Heath Streak
ODI	Grant Flower

Player of the Match

The following players were recognized as Player of the Match .

game	Player of the Match
1. ODI	Bryan Strand
2. ODI	Alastair Campbell
3. ODI	Grant Flower
1st test	Javed Omar
2nd test	Guy Whittall

Web links

• The series on espncricinfo.com

Individual evidence

1. ↑ John Ward: Tours to Zimbabwe, 2001 ( English ) Cricinfo. January 12, 2001. Retrieved September 11, 2016.
2. ↑ Zimbabwe ODI squad to play Bangladesh ( English ) Cricinfo. April 3, 2001. Retrieved September 11, 2016.
3. ^ Zimbabwe announce squad for First Test against Bangladesh ( English ) Cricinfo. April 17, 2001. Retrieved September 11, 2016.
4. ↑ Records / Bangladesh in Zimbabwe Test Series, 2000/01 / Most runs ( English ) Cricinfo. Retrieved August 3, 2016.
5. ↑ Records / Bangladesh in Zimbabwe Test Series, 2000/01 / Most wickets ( English ) Cricinfo. Retrieved August 3, 2016.
6. ↑ Records / Bangladesh in Zimbabwe ODI Series, 2000/01 / Most runs ( English ) Cricinfo. Retrieved August 3, 2016.
7. ↑ Records / Bangladesh in Zimbabwe ODI Series, 2000/01 / Most wickets ( English ) Cricinfo. Retrieved August 3, 2016.