{"id":39353,"date":"2026-07-11T18:20:14","date_gmt":"2026-07-11T16:20:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.channelafrica.co.za\/channelafrica\/?post_type=news&#038;p=39353"},"modified":"2026-07-11T18:26:26","modified_gmt":"2026-07-11T16:26:26","slug":"bangladesh-win-final-odi-against-zimbabwe-but-lose-the-series","status":"publish","type":"news","link":"https:\/\/www.channelafrica.co.za\/channelafrica\/news\/bangladesh-win-final-odi-against-zimbabwe-but-lose-the-series\/","title":{"rendered":"Bangladesh win final ODI against Zimbabwe but lose the series"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Bangladesh\u2019s Tanzid Hassan fell narrowly short of a century as \u200bhe guided his team to a \u200cseven-wicket victory over hosts Zimbabwe on Saturday in their third One Day International (ODI).<\/p>\n<p>Tanzid \u200bscored 94 before skying the \u200bball for a catch at long \u2060on as he tried to hit \u200ba match-winning six at the Harare \u200bSports Club.<\/p>\n<p>But his 151-run first-wicket partnership with Soumya Sarkar saw Bangladesh most of the way \u200bhome as they chased down Zimbabwe\u2019s \u200b199 off 48.1 overs and secured victory with \u200c84 \u2060balls to spare.<\/p>\n<p>The home side were put in to bat with Wessly Madhevere top-scoring 75 and Brad Evans \u200bhitting 50 \u200bafter \u2060losing early wickets cheaply, with Shoriful Islam taking 4-44.<\/p>\n<p>It was \u200ba consolation win for Bangladesh, \u200bwho \u2060lost the opening two games of the three-match series.<\/p>\n<p>The two countries will \u2060now \u200bplay a three-match Twenty20 \u200bseries in Bulawayo, starting on Wednesday.<\/p>\n<p>&#8211;Reuters&#8211;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"featured_media":39356,"template":"","meta":{"_acf_changed":false},"news-type":[20],"class_list":["post-39353","news","type-news","status-publish","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","news-type-sport","entry"],"acf":{"short_description":"The two countries will \u2060now \u200bplay a three-match Twenty20 \u200bseries in Bulawayo, starting on Wednesday.","published_date":"","news_description":"The two countries will \u2060now \u200bplay a three-match Twenty20 \u200bseries in Bulawayo, starting on Wednesday.","form_embed":"","author":"","image_caption":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.channelafrica.co.za\/channelafrica\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news\/39353","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.channelafrica.co.za\/channelafrica\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.channelafrica.co.za\/channelafrica\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/news"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.channelafrica.co.za\/channelafrica\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news\/39353\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":39355,"href":"https:\/\/www.channelafrica.co.za\/channelafrica\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news\/39353\/revisions\/39355"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.channelafrica.co.za\/channelafrica\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/39356"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.channelafrica.co.za\/channelafrica\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=39353"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"news-type","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.channelafrica.co.za\/channelafrica\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news-type?post=39353"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}