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Shahriar shines as Tigers post 250

Al-Amin, from Canterbury
Shahriar Nafees scored his maiden one-day international fifty and wicketkeeper batsman Khaled Mashud hit a carrier-best 71 as Bangladesh recovered from a hopeless start to post a fighting 2508 in their final NatWest Series match against Australia here on Thursday.
Shahriar hit a solid 75 after Bangladesh lost three wickets for 19 runs. He is the first specialist southpaw to bat at the top-order and has been a revelation in the series. Shahriar hit three fours in an innings that featured 116 balls.
A batsman with solid defence, Shahriar was also involved in a 96
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run stand for the sixth wicket with Mashud after Bangladesh were reduced to 75-5. The previous best of the 19-year-old, who was playing only his fourth game, was 47 also against Australia at Old Trafford, Manchester.
Mashud, whose previous best was exactly 50, hammered an unbeaten 71 off 105 balls. The experienced Rajshahi wicketkeeper hit four boundaries in his partnership with Khaled Mahmud, which was worth 57 in 47 balls.
Mahmud, who came in place of left-arm spinner Manjarul Islam, scored a brisk 22.
Earlier, Bangladesh captain Habibul Bashar during his 24-ball 30 smashed four boundaries in one Brett Lee over. But his innings was cut short by a snorter from Shane Watson.
Bashar would have loved to have won the toss and fielded first in overcast conditions. But it was not be after incorrectly calling the coin for the seventh time (including the two Tests) in eight games.
There was also no surprise from his Australian counterpart Ricky Ponting, who will never forget the rueful decision he made in the first meeting of the two sides at Cardiff.
About a thousand Bangladeshi supporters with a few wearing the one-day jersey of the Tigers and painting their faces with red and green colours were however least concerned with the toss factor.
They were confident of a good start especially after the last two games, where Bangladesh provided some solidity at the top.
But they were unstuck by the
return of an all-too familiar top-order collapse with the first three wickets falling with just 19 runs on the board.
Opener Javed might have thought that the luck was on his side after he was dropped in the slips by Matthew Hayden off Lee in the third over. But the doughty right-hander, fresh after his 81 against England at Headingley, was out caught behind off a beauty of a delivery from Jason Gillespie in the next over and trudged back to the dressing room without troubling the scorer.
If Javed's dismissal was testimony of Australia's feared fast bowling then the fall of Tushar Imran and Mohammad Asfraful in quick succession as classic cases of stupidity.
Tushar went for an expansive drive the first ball he faced. But the dead straight 99 mph delivery from Lee knocked off his stumps.
Ashraful hit a magnificent six over square leg off the third ball he faced off Lee, and the crowd roared in anticipation of yet another thunderstorm from the little genius after his 100 and 58 against the same side.
But the audience was stunned into silence when Ashraful tried to drove an off-stump yorker and was clean bowled.