Record whitewash Bangladesh twice all out in one day

On the one hand, when the whole country is busy with the women's team SAFF championship title celebration. On the other hand, the reverse of the coin is in Bangladesh cricket. Common people were moved by the excitement of the girls in Dhaka's open-top bus, and Nazmul Hossain Shanto's team brought down the sadness of the state in Chittagong. South Africa beat Bangladesh by a record second highest innings and a margin of 273 runs.

After the Mirpur Test, the hosts Bangladesh showed extreme failure with the bat at Zahur Ahmed Chowdhury Stadium in Chittagong. Only by losing the previous match in the second and final Test could they avoid a washout. Shanta-Mushfique and Sadman Islam proved it impossible once again with poor batting. In both innings, Bangladesh was in a hurry to finish the match as quickly as possible! With South Africa's tail-ender batsmen also scoring centuries and fifties, the Tigers were in a race to get out!

On the third day, Bangladesh lost 16 wickets in two innings and completed the 16th streak of failure. But narrowly escaped the biggest Test defeat. Earlier, West Indies lost by a record highest innings and 310 runs. But that was during Bangladesh's journey in Test cricket. Today's loss is the second highest shy of that record. That would not have been possible in the tail-ender Hasan Mahmud's personal best innings of 38 runs. In the second innings, the hosts were all out for 143 runs.

Earlier, the Proteas declared the first innings with 575 runs for 6 wickets with three centuries. On the other hand, Bangladesh fell to the follow-on in the first innings after being bowled out for just 159 runs. They lost 4 wickets for 38 runs while batting in the late afternoon of the second day of the Test yesterday. Today (Thursday) the remaining 6 wickets have to be added to the team's collection of 121 runs. After that, Aiden Markram's Protea camp sent Bangladesh into the second innings in the follow-on.

Bangladesh's top order, which fell behind by 416 runs in the follow-on, failed once again in the second innings. The two openers managed to add only 15 runs to the opening pair. Suffering from run shortage, Sadman returned with only 6 runs. Another opener Mahmudul Hasan Joy could not benefit. He could not score more than 11 runs in 31 balls. Muminul Haque, who scored the highest run for the team in the first innings, was called up. Zakir Hasan also returned quickly (6). The top-order batsman was stumped after coming down the wicket in the last ball of the second session.

It was the same pattern in the Tigers' batting after the tea break. The team expected a responsible innings from Mushfiqur Rahim, who came to the wicket after losing four wickets for 43 runs. But Mushfiq could not. When this batter returned with 2 runs, the hosts lost the fifth wicket for 47 runs. Mehdi Hasan Miraj also returned with only 6 runs. Nazmul Hossain disappointed after a while with the hint of keeping calm. 36 runs came from Bangladesh captain's bat. At the end pacer Hasan narrowed the margin of loss. His 38 runs in 4 sixes is the personal highest in Bangladesh's second innings.

Keshav Maharaj took the maximum 5 wickets for the Proteas on the way to ensure Bangladesh's drubbing. Apart from this, Senuran Muthshamy took 4 wickets and Dan Patterson took 1 wicket. Earlier, Kagiso Rabada who took 5 wickets in the first innings became the best of the series. And Protea opener Tony De Georgi became the man of the match by scoring a personal maximum of 177 runs.