Abdur Razzak bowled one of his most expensive spells in the third One Day International match against West Indies at Warner Park. The left arm spinner gave away 76 runs in his quota of 10 overs.
The day might not have been this bad for Razzak if his captain Mushfiqur Rahim had held onto a stumping chance.
Pretty early in his spell, Razzak had outfoxed Darren Bravo by pulling his length slightly back. The Caribbean no. 3 could not connect and Mushfiqur had enough time to take the bails off, but, he failed in completing the process as he fumbled the ball and the batsman stayed on.
With that lost chance, Bangladesh almost lost the game too as Bravo clattered them to all parts afterwards.
Bravo was pretty severe on Razzak who was bowling right in his arc.
There was moderate wind blowing as well which, if anything, helped the West Indies batsmen as even their mistimed hits reached outside the fence.
However, it would not be fair to blame Mushfiqur only for Razzak’s poor looking figures. The bowler himself is also to be blamed as he tried to bowl short of a length more often than not and was cut frequently off the back foot by both the left hander Bravo as well as the right hander Denesh Ramdin.
Razzak had not played in the first match of the series. He was brought in the second match to provide some variety to the bowling line up of the Bangladeshi side, but, he couldn’t live up to what was expected as he remained wicket less in the two matches that he played.
The 32-year old bowled his full quota in both the matches conceding 119 runs in total at an economy rate of just below 6.