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As It Happened: Bangladesh vs South Africa, 1st ODI in Mirpur
Live cricket score and ball-by-ball commentary from the 1st ODI match between Bangladesh and South Africa at the Shere Bangla National Stadium, Mirpur on Friday.
Kagiso Rabada takes six-for on ODI debut© AFP
South Africa beat Bangladesh by eight wickets in the first one-day international to take a 1-0 lead in the three-match series at the Sher-e-Bangla National Stadium in Dhaka on Friday. Catch all the highlights of the match here: (SCORECARD)
South Africa reached 164-2 with 8.5 overs in hand after they were set an easy target after Bangladesh were dismissed for 160 in 36.3 overs in the rain-reduced 40-over-a-side game.
The second and third ODI of the three-match series will be held on July 12 and 15 in Dhaka and Chittagong.
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South Africa Cricket Team
Bangladesh Cricket Team
Shere Bangla National Stadium, Mirpur
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Kagiso Rabada
Faf du Plessis
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Live Score: Bangladesh vs South Africa
That's it for today as South Africa have taken the 1-0 lead in the three match series. Join us again as we will come back on 12th July 2015 at 1450 Local Time. Until then, Goodbye and take care.
Man of the match - Khagiso Rabada. It had to be him for his bowling performance of 6/16.
Shakib Al Hasan picks up the award for the best Bangladeshi performer. Mortaza said the total was not really competitive and Shakib and Rahim had a good partnership but it was not enough.
In reply, Quinton de Kock and Amla entered with intent. They both got off to a good start but after the dismissal of Amla, Quinton looked uncomfortable. He managed to play himself to 35 before getting out. After the two openers departed, in came Rossouw and du Plessis. Both of them played all the way til the end to take South Africa through comfortably. They never looked troubled and Bangladesh will be questioning their bowling and batting after tonight's performance. Also, this was the first wicketless preformance by Mustafizur Rahman. There's a;ways a first isn't there?
That's it then, Bangladesh lose the first ODI and South Africa lead the 3 match series 1-0. They have done it very very convincingly. It all started with the brilliance of Khagiso Rabada. He picked up 6 wickets and gets the best bowling figures on debut. His day couldn't have been any better as he even got a hat-trick to his name. Along with his bowling partners, South Africa restricted the Bangladeshi's for 160.
FOUR! That's it. Rossouw cuts this through point and nobody bothers to stop it. South Africa win this match by 8 wickets.
Shabbir Rahman comes in to bowl.
Drives this superbly to covers this time. No runs.
FOUR! That looked like it was going all the way. du Plessis smacked the ball over mid wicket for a boundary. The ball was tad short and asking to be hit.
du Plessis has played that off the front foot and into the ground.