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Careless batting costs Bangladesh

Sports Reporter
Kenya played the last rites of the l>eleaguered Bangladeshis In the President's Cup when thev troun-
ced the tourists by eight wickets at the Aga Khan ground in Nairobi yesterday.
The penultimate league engagement of the three-nation Invitational tournament, which marked a complete whitewash of the ICC trophy champions, witnessed a repeat display of reckless batting by the Bangladeshis, who were riding in dizzy heights after winning the cup of the associatemember nations in Malaysia four months back.'
Batting first after winning the toss, Bangladesh were bundled out for a meagre 100 runs in a truncated 46-over-a-slde match with sundry things topscoring 18. In reply, Kenyans scored 102 for two wickets in Just 17 overs to avenge their defeat in the final of ICC Trophy in a fitting manner.
A brief rain in the morning session appeared to be a welcome relief for Bangladesh, who were at one stage reeling on 17 for 3. But there was no respite for the shamateures of Bangladesh squad as the fickle Kenyan rain went off soon, much to the relief of the hosts.
The never-ending procession towards the dressing room appeared to have reflected the latent follies of the Bangladeshis to turn tall in a Jiffy from the Kenyan Une of fire. Bangladesh batsmen seemingly engaged in eye-soring battle to award their wickets to the not-so-telling Kenyan bowlers.
The massacre started in the very first over when opener Athar Ali Khan was returned for a duck, offering a simple catch to Kenedy Otieno off right-arm seamer Martin Sull.
Mohammad Raflque, who was promoted in the batting order to exploit the first fifteen-over field restriction, lasted only eleven balls for a struggling one before Suji hit again.
One-down Habibul Basher Sumon. who was out to prove that his dazzling 70 against Zimbabwe was nothing out a flash in the pan, was bowled by Tony Suji alter scoring only 4. And when skipper Akram Khan
and Minhazul Abedin Nannu, the veteran of the veterans of the country, were dismissed by Martin Suji in quick succession. Bangladesh lost half of their wickets with an insignificant 40 runs on the board.
The burly Bangladesh captain. whose success on the day ended at a point when he called the coin correctly in the morning. made only 7 while Nannu scored a 18-ball 5. Nannu. who featured in all the 19 International matches that Bangladesh ever played, scored 1. 16. 18 and 5 in four matches.
On a slow and turning wicket Shahri ar Hossain Bidyut with a 47-ball 16 offered some sort of resilience among the so-called recognised batsmen. But the bulk of the paltry total came as a compliment from the tall-en-ders, where right-arm seamer Mofizur Rahman Munna and off-spinner Sheikh Salahuddin contributed 16 and 12 runs respectively.
Bangladesh, in defence of their fourth minimum total in Internationa) matches, however. gave the Kenyans an early scare when new-ball bowler Haslbul Hossain Shanto captured two wickets in successive deliveries, reducing Kenya to 11/2.
The tall right-arm seamer, who returned opener Depak Chudasama for 4. raised a glimmer of hopes in the match by dismissing Maurice Odumbe for a first-ball duck.
But then Shanto lost his way In the face of some terrific assault from Kenedy Otieno and Aplesh Vadher, who guided the home side to victory sharing 89 runs for the undefeated third wicket.
Opener Otieno scored an unbeaten 42 off 53 balls while Vadher, the young right-handed batsmen, took three hall less to match the score of his more experienced compatriot.
Although Shanto, captured both the wickets, he eventually proved most expensive as he conceded 54 runs In his six overs.
With this win Kenya ensured their berth in the best-of-three finals before featuring in their last league match to be played against the other finalists Zimbabwe at the same venue tomorrow.
The national team, which revisited the heart-breaking performance in the 1994 ICC Trophy championship also In Kenya, Is likely to return home tomorrow.
AFP meanwhile quoted the Bangladesh coach Gordon Greenidge lamenting. "We are unable to come up with an answer to the problem, which is. turning into a crisis.
You can lose a match, but we have been losing in a disappointing way. We need to look into the future and rethink our strategy and make changes ... some maybe considered drastic." said the Caribbean coach of Bangladesh.
SCOREBOARD
Scoreboard of the President's Cup match between Ban-gladesh and Kenya at the Aga Khan ground in Nairobi Wednesday:
BANGLADESH
Athar c Otieno b M Suji 0 Raflque c Modi b M Suji 1 Sumon b T Suji 4
Shahrlar c Tlkolo b Odoyo 16 Akram c Odoyo b M Suji 7 Minhazul c Odoyo b M Suji 5 Masud c Vadher b Karim 12 Mofizur c Sheikh b Karim 16 Salauddin hit wckt b Sheikh 12 Haslbul c Vadher b Odumbe 8
Safluddln not out 0
Extras (lb-2. nb-7. w-10) 19
Total (all out. 41.2 overs) 100
Fall of wickets: 1-2; 2-9: 3-10. 4-28; 5-40: 6-51; 7-63; 8-88; 9-100.
Bowling O M R W
M Suji 10 1 24 4
T Suji 6 0 19 1
Odoyo 9 2 15 1
A Karim 9 1 21 2
M Odumbe 5.2 1 16 1
M Sheikh 2 0 3 1
KENYA
Chudasama c Shariar b Haslbul 4
Otieno not out 42
Tlkolo b Haslbul 0
A Vader not out 41
Extras: Ob-2 nb-4. »S 14
Total (for 2 wkis In 17 Overs) 102
Fall of wickets: 1-11:2-11.
Bowling: O M R W
Haslbul 6 0 54 2
Safluddln 4 0 18 0
Raflque 4 0 15 0
Salauddin 2 0 12 0
Mafizur 10 10
Result: Kenya won by eight wickets, match was reduced to 46 overs due to rain.