Neville Madziva made the most of a reprieve to hit an unbeaten 28 as Zimbabwe shocked Bangladesh by three wickets in the second Twenty20 international to secure 1-1 draw in the two-match series in Dhaka on Sunday.
Madziva took 18 runs in the last over to help Zimbabwe reach 136-7 in 19.5 overs after his 2-25 played a hand in restricting Bangladesh to 135-9 at the Sher-e-Bangla National Stadium.
Bangladesh had the match in their bag when Nasir Hossain dismissed Malcolm Waller in the first ball of the over, but Madziva hit the off-spinner 6, 2, 4, 6 off the next four balls to stun the home side.
Madziva was caught behind for 10 in the previous over off Mustafizur Rahman, but the right-hander was called back after replay showed the bowler had overstepped.
Waller made 40 off 27 balls with two fours and three sixes and shared 55 runs in sixth wicket stand with Luke Jongwe (34) as Zimbabwe recovered from 5-39 to win the game.
It ended their 13-match losing streak against Bangladesh in all formats.
Anamul Haque earlier made 47 off 51 balls to hold the innings for Bangladesh amid free-fall of wickets at the other end.
Pacer Tinashe Panyangara claimed 3-30 for Zimbabwe while leg-spinner Graeme Cremer also claimed two wickets giving away 21 runs.
Bangladesh started confidently after skipper Mashrafe Mortaza elected to bat as Tamim Iqbal and Imrul Kayes put on 34 runs in the opening stand.
Tamim miscued a pull shot off Madziva to give a catch to Sean Williams at long on for 21 and Kayes fell in the next over to Tendai Chisoro for 10.
Zimbabwe then made regular breakthroughs to keep the hosts in check.
Anamul was run out in the final over as Bangladesh settled for their lowest total against Zimbabwe in five Twenty20 internationals.
Source: New Age
