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October 11, 2011
Mushfiqur Rahim, who sealed Bangladesh's victory over West Indies on Tuesday with a six over midwicket, said it was a calculated shot he played to finish the game.
"I was targeting the smaller side of the ground, and I was confident that even a mis-hit could travel for six," he said.
During the recent visit of Zimbabwe Bangladesh Mushfiqur a similar role in the third ODI. Bangladesh needed eight off the last over to win by a gate in his hand, and Mushfiqur, beat is 99, hit a pair of first and punched the ball out for the next six attempts. Here, he said, was not worried about repeating the same mistake.
"In Harare, as there was only one stop left, I knew that if I took one, we lost the match. In other words everything that I was here, as they have had three windows left, I knew that if I shot badly and we find one or two still have a chance to win. "
The game was first Mushfiqur Bangladesh captain and he was glad everything went as expected. "Everyone wants the first match [their stints] be memorable, and I could not ask for more. We won the toss, had a plan for the first bowl, because the baptism would have been a factor, and our bowling is the spin -dependent. We saved 10-12 working in the field and tried to limit them as much as possible. "
With Bangladesh from 93 to 6 in the 16th over, chasing 133, West Indies seemed to get the edge, but Mushfiqur found a partner capable of debutant Nasir Hossain. When Mushfiqur said he wanted to play 20 overs. "I thought if Nasir and I stayed until the last over, even if we needed 10 or 15 tracks [20], we could win.
"We had a few races in the penultimate over [off Carlos Brathwaite 14], which was a bonus for us. In the end, I trusted that if I have the ball in my area so I can hit for four or six. Fortunately, that's what happened. "
Bangladesh's bowlers did well to restrict the Caribbean, he said. "I think we upset extremely well to restrict West Indies to the 132nd was not a very difficult [to hunt]. Rubel [Hossain] was struck by two six, but these things can happen in the power play. What I could as was the way he responded to the responsibility placed on him and came back well. "
Darren Sammy, captain of the West Indies ", said his team had made too many mistakes." We could have scored more points, and could allow more balls in the field, "said Sammy." In the end we made more mistakes than them.
"We knew that there would be an interesting series. They held their nerve better than we did. We do not take for granted."
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