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Proteas take series with easy win

Sports Reporter
South Africa clinched the one-day series with a seven-wicket victory over Bangladesh in the second game at the Sher-e-Bangla National Stadium in Mirpur yesterday.
Statistically the visitors posted their second successive win in 48.2 overs while chasing a modest home team total of 173, five runs fewer than what Bangladesh scored in the first one-dayer at Chittagong three days back, but the match was virtually decided after the first 30 minutes when the Tigers suffered a typical top-order collapse.
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With the score at 4-18 in 6.8 overs, the rest of the Bangladesh innings was nothing but an effort for damage limitation. And it was done with some maturity by two young batsmen despite the fact that the batting remained as pathetic as ever.
Shakib Ai Hasan (52) and newcomer Rokibul Hasan (63) put on 119 runs, which is a Bangladesh record for the fifth wicket. But apart from that stand there was nothing to cheer for the half-packed audience.
Captain Mohammad Ashraful won a good toss but his decision to bat first for the second successive time did not change the perennial top-order collapse syndrome and this time around South Africa paceman Andrew Nel did all the damage.
There was however an unusual resistance from the middle-order when Shakib and Rokib batted astutely to revive hopes from the initial hiccups but their effort was not good enough to set up a challenging total on the board as the home team lost six wickets in the span of six overs in the end.
In only his second game, Rokib showed some character by taking smart singles and sensible running between the wickets to build up a partnership but his side lost momentum once he was caught at mid-on while Shakib completed 1,000 runsin theshorter-versionby making his sixth fifty but Bangladesh still could only manage 173 runs before beingal) out in 48.2 overs.
The visitors also suffered a slight wobble in reply to the modest total when pace spearhead Mashrafe Bin Mortaza served the first blow by trapping Herschelle Gibbs in front to get his first wicket of the series before left-arm spinner Abdur Razzak came up with a double strike to see South Africa three down for 60.
Hashim Amla began to look good but Razzak took a sharp return catch to stop the righthander and the Tigers got an edge when the left-arm spinner sent inform Graeme Smith back for 28.
But AB de Villiers (69) and Jean-Paul Duminy (49) sealed the series with a clinical battling display during their unbeaten 119-run partnership for the fourth wicket. The two batsmen didn't take any risk against the three-pronged spin attack which got advantage from the low, slow pitch to ensure South Africa came another step closer to topple Australia from their number one ranking.
The Proteas reached 179-3 in 48.1 overs when right-hander de Villiers smashed Tamim Iqbal over long on for the lone six of the match.
Earlier, man-of-the-match Nel gave a fitting reply at not being included in the team for the Indian tour with a fiery opening burst as Tamim, who top-scored with 82 in the first match, dragged the ball on to his stumps in the third ball of the first over and Shahriar Nafees went fishingoutside his off-stump.
Ashraful was his third victim when the Bangladesh skipper pulled one from outside off-stump to reach Albie Morkel at deep square leg for a four-ball duck.
The senseless run out of wicketkeeper Dhiman Ghosh however seemed cosdy in the end. The decision came not before a drama as it took a few minutes before third umpire AFM Akhtaruddin took the initiative and there also were repeated protests from South African coach Mickey Arthur from outside the rope.
The third and last match will be held at the same venue tomorrow.