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Mustafiz cricinfo's T20 bowler of the year

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Published: 17:00, 24 February 2017   Update: 15:18, 26 July 2020
Mustafiz cricinfo's T20 bowler of the year

Sport Desk: Bangladesh pace sensation "the cutter master" has won the most well circulated cricket related website "ESPN cricinfo's bowler of the year in Twenty20 format.

ESPN made this announcement on Friday night.

According to ESPN cricinfo's website, The outcome of the 28th match in the World T20 would have little bearing on either team or the tournament. A few hours after the conclusion of the game, New Zealand would head to Delhi for their semi-final, while Bangladesh, knackered and heartbroken, would return home.

Still, three days following the three-ball brain fade that ended their World T20 campaign, a win on the country's independence day would be a nice consolation prize to take back to Dhaka.

But with a number of players still nursing scars from the previous game, Bangladesh stumbled to 70 all out - their lowest total in T20Is - and lost by 75 runs.

Not before the team's youngest player provided some cause for cheer, though. Mustafizur turned up with a set of toys that weren't exactly a secret anymore.

New Zealand, like other teams, had seen his cutters and knew what he could do. Be that as it may, they couldn't really do much when confronted with them.

He took a wicket in each of his first three overs, and two in the last. His captain, Mashrafe Mortaza, used him in one-over bursts, in the fourth and ninth overs, and then brought him on for the 18th and 20th.

Mustafizur was quick to size up the conditions, and bowled a number of slower deliveries on a dry pitch that offered little pace and variable bounce. Opener Henry Nicholls' dismissal was a good example: the offcutter tiptoeing between bat and pad off an attempted expansive drive.

Except for Grant Elliott's dismissal, which was as much a result of good bowling as of a stunning catch from Shuvagata Hom running backwards, Mustafizur didn't bring his fielders into play: he had four batsmen bowled.

He removed Mitchell Santner and Nathan McCullum off successive deliveries in the last over, but Mitchell McClenaghan whacked the hat-trick ball over long-on, into the crowd.

 

risingbd/Dhaka/Feb 24, 2017/A K Azad

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