Tanvir spins Wolves into submission
Left-arm spinner Tanvir Islam bagged 13 wickets on the match to greatly help the Bangladesh Emerging staff gain the lone four-dayer against the visiting Ireland Wolves by an innings and 23 runs at the Zahur Ahmed Chowdhury Stadium on Chattogram yesterday.
Ireland, resuming the third moment on 35 for four within their second innings, were once caught found in Tanvir's spin web.
The 24-year-old had taken three wickets on the next day, and went on to bag five more wickets to wrap up along with his career-best figures of eight for 51 from 28.3 overs.
The visitors struggled to negotiate the spin and arm-balls from Tanvir, who had picked up five wickets in the first of all innings. He had nothing you've seen prior taken five wickets within an innings in 11 previous first class games.
Skipper Harry Tector top-scored with 55 for Ireland while Curtis Campher added 22, but none of the visiting batsmen could actually score drastically and were eventually bundled out for 139 runs.
Before, Bangladesh took a large 162-run lead in their first innings after having shot out the visitors for 151 within their first innings.
Although it was a green top in Chattogram, it was Tanvir's left-arm spin that hounded the visitors. He explained he tried to use the speed variation and bowl regularly in a particular spot and that brought him rewards.
"As you understand, it had been a green top but our instructor instructed us to bowl found in a specific area. I tried to make use of my pace variation as there is nothing very much for the spinners on the surface. At times I as well bowled the armer which proved helpful well for me personally. But my main power is my flip," Tanvir advised the Daily Star.
The cricketer from Barishal, who had to miss his second-year final test of his graduation course to be a part of the ongoing series, said it was worth it.
"It was for the 3rd time that I missed my second-year last test for cricket. But I have no regrets, in all honesty. But it appears that I have to obtain admitted just as before to my school to entire my graduation," he said with a smile. "It had been my maiden five-wicket haul in first-school cricket and in addition my maiden ten-wicket haul in a game, I am very happy."
The visitors will need part in the first of five unofficial ODIs against Bangladesh on March 5.
