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Scotland fall to in-form Tigers
World Cup warm-up, Barbados: Bangladesh 156-3 beat Scotland 152-9 by seven wickets
Match scorecard

Gavin Hamilton was surprised to see a ball scuttle on to bowl him

Scotland suffered a second hefty World Cup warm-up defeat at the 3Ws Oval in Barbados after losing their way against Bangladesh's impressive spin attack.

Scotland mustered only 152-9 and were powerless to stop Tigers captain Habibul Bashar (57 not out) helping his team to a second win in the week.

Bangladesh had more than 15 overs and seven wickets to spare at the end.

Scotland's batsmen squandered a strong start, which saw them safely reach 73-2 after 23 overs as they batted first.

Little went right for them thereafter, as Abdur Razzak (3-25) and his fellow slow left-armers Mohammad Rafique and Saqibul Hasan put the squeeze on.

Top-scorer Navdeep Poonia (32) fell disappointingly, mistiming an easy catch into the ring after opener Fraser Watts (28) had fallen lbw to Razzak.

Much then depended on seasoned pros Gavin Hamilton and Dougie Brown, but neither was able to produced the goods.

Both were bowled by spin and the innings soon unravelled.

Scotland's seamers briefly kept their team in the hunt, as Paul Hoffman and John Blain each claimed an early breakthrough.

But Habibul and Saqibul soon engaged in controlled pursuit of an obviously achievable target.

The job was as good as done by the time Saqibul fell to an aerial cut at Brown, snaffled by Neil McCallum at point five short of his half-century.

Habibul made no mistake though, and came away with a 57 not out off 76 balls, an innings which contained five fours.



Bangladesh v Scotland
08-03-2007 at Barbados
Bangladesh beat Scotland by 7 wickets
Bangladesh won the toss and decided to field
Scotland Innings
152 for 9 (50.0 overs)
Bangladesh Innings
156 for 3 (34.1 overs)


Scotland Innings
Runs Balls 4s 6s
R M Haq run out 5 15 0 0
D F Watts lbw b Abdur Razzak 28 0 1 0
N S Poonia c Saqibul Hasan b Tapash Baisya 32 34 5 0
R R Watson c Aftab Ahmed b Abdur Razzak 6 0 0 0
G M Hamilton b Abdur Razzak 9 0 0 0
N F I McCallum c Tapash Baisya b Mashrafe Mortaza 19 0 0 0
D R Brown b Mohammad Rafique 3 0 0 0
C J O Smith c Mushfiqur Rahim b Saqibul Hasan 9 0 0 0
C M Wright lbw b Mohammad Rafique 7 0 0 0
J A R Blain not out 13 0 0 0
P J C Hoffmann not out 7 0 0 0
Extras 7w 3b 4lb 14
Total for 9 152 (50.0 ovs)

Bowler O M R W
Mashrafe Mortaza 10.0 0 35 1
Syed Rasel 5.0 0 20 0
Tapash Baisya 5.0 0 24 1
Abdur Razzak 10.0 0 25 3
Mohammad Rafique 10.0 3 16 2
Saqibul Hasan 10.0 2 25 1
Fall of wicket
12 R M Haq
58 N S Poonia
73 R R Watson
82 D F Watts
89 G M Hamilton
96 D R Brown
112 C J O Smith
122 N F I McCallum
130 C M Wright


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Bangladesh Innings
Runs Balls 4s 6s
Tamim Iqbal c G M Hamilton b J A R Blain 7 17 1 0
Shahriar Nafees c G A Rogers b P J C Hoffmann 0 4 0 0
Aftab Ahmed retd hurt 19 26 2 0
Saqibul Hasan c N F I McCallum b D R Brown 45 55 6 0
Habibul Bashar not out 57 87 6 0
Mohammad Ashraful not out 23 20 5 0
Extras 2nb 1w 2lb 5
Total for 3 156 (34.1 ovs)

Bowler O M R W
P J C Hoffmann 6.0 1 19 1
J A R Blain 6.0 0 33 1
G A Rogers 5.1 0 30 0
C M Wright 5.0 1 14 0
R M Haq 4.0 1 14 0
R T Lyons 4.0 0 25 0
D R Brown 4.0 1 19 1
Fall of wicket
7 Shahriar Nafees
7 Tamim Iqbal
108 Saqibul Hasan


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Umpires: S J A Taufel, M R Benson
Bangladesh: Habibul Bashar, Mushfiqur Rahim, Shahriar Nafees, Tamim Iqbal, Aftab Ahmed, Saqibul Hasan, Mohammad Ashraful, Mohammad Rafique, Mashrafe Mortaza, Javed Omar, Syed Rasel, Tapash Baisya (sub), Abdur Razzak
Scotland: C M Wright, D F Watts, R M Haq, N S Poonia, R R Watson, G M Hamilton, N F I McCallum, D R Brown, C J O Smith, J A R Blain, G A Rogers, P J C Hoffmann (sub), R T Lyons

Text and Picture courtesy of www.bbc.co.uk

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Photos

Gavin Hamilton....
Linlithgow lad Gaving Hamilton seen here in action in Barbados earlier today in a World Cup Warm up match.

Gav Close up
Same picture as the other but a close up of Gav's dejected face after his dismissal