Sheffield Cricket Lovers' Society Year Book 2022

37 it up on the Lord’s honours board’! Bangladesh in fact acquitted themselves well at the start of each innings with stands of 88 and 185, posting scores of 282 and 382 respectively. It ensured that England, having scored 505, were required to bat again to win by 8 wickets. Within four days the other huge loss followed at Old Tra ord. e bright spark was, in reply to England’s total of 419, Tamim Iqbal and his opening partner Imrul Kayes putting on 126. Ninety runs later the team was all out for 216 with Tamim scoring 108, exactly half of the team’s total score. In the three ensuing One-day Internationals Bangladesh hit back by winning the second at Bristol by ve runs. ey have not returned since then but in 2016-17 England toured Bangladesh and shared the two-match series one all. A er England won the rst Test at Chittagong by a mere 22 runs, the second, at Mirpur, resulted in a well- deserved 108 run home triumph. e redoubtable Tamim Iqbal scored another century, 104, in the second innings, and the other architect of the victory was o spinner, Mehedi Hasan; only just 19, he claimed match gures of 12-159, taking six wickets in each innings. A total of 95 players had represented Bangladesh in Tests to the end of 2019 and just one, unsurprisingly Tamim Iqbal, has been voted a Wisden Cricketer of the Year. Certainly, Bangladesh cricket is on the way up. Whilst not touring here since 2010, they have played against fellow Indian Subcontinent countries. In 2017-18 they posted a win in a shared two match rubber in Sri Lanka which threw up a fascinating statistic. e Sri Lankans were captained by their long standing test match le arm spinner, with 433 test wickets to his name, HMRKB Herath - surely a rst in test cricket. Habibul Bashar.