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Stats Analysis

Tamim achieves a first and draws level with Shakib

Stats highlights from Mirpur where Bangladesh achieved their first series win against Pakistan.

Shiva Jayaraman
19-Apr-2015
Tamim Iqbal became the first Bangladesh batsman to hit two centuries in a bilateral ODI series.  •  AFP

Tamim Iqbal became the first Bangladesh batsman to hit two centuries in a bilateral ODI series.  •  AFP

0 Number of bilateral series wins for Bangladesh against Pakistan before this one. Bangladesh had previously played five bilateral series against Pakistan and lost all of them, without winning a single game.
3 Number of ODIs that Bangladesh have now won against Pakistan. Their first win was in the 1999 World Cup. Between that game and the start of this series, Bangladesh had lost 25 consecutive matches to Pakistan.
71 Bangladesh's victory margin in terms of balls remaining - their second biggest win against Test teams other than Zimbabwe. Their biggest win came against West Indies in 2011, with 180 balls to spare.
248 Runs scored by Tamim Iqbal in this series - the highest by a Bangladesh batsman in a bilateral series with three or fewer matches. The previous best was by Shahriar Nafees who hit 204 runs in a three-match series against Ireland in 2008.
0 Number of times a Bangladesh batsman made two centuries in a bilateral series, before Tamim's back-to-back centuries. Tamim is only the second Bangladesh batsman to score two hundreds in an ODI series or tournament, after Mahmudullah's successive centuries in the recent World Cup. Incidentally, Tamim is the third batsman after Mahmudullah and Nafees to hit two successive ODI hundreds.
18 Number of boundaries hit by Tamim in his unbeaten innings of 116, which equals the most by a Bangladesh batsman in an ODI. Tamim had hit 18 boundaries, including three sixes, in the last game as well. Nafees and Shakib Al Hasan are the other batsmen to hit 18 boundaries.
6 Hundreds by Tamim Iqbal in ODIs. He is equal with Shakib on the list of Bangladesh batsmen with most ODI centuries. Tamim and Shakib also have the same number of fifties - 28.
0 Number of times Bangladesh had won chasing against Pakistan, in 20 previous attempts before this game. In the other two victories, Bangladesh batted first.
80 Average runs scored by Bangladesh per wicket in this game - their fifth-highest against a Test team in chases in ODIs. The four previous instances when they had averaged better than this came against Zimbabwe.
5 Number of fifty-plus scores by Mushfiqur Rahim in eight ODI innings in 2015. Mushfiqur has made 469 runs this year - with a century and four fifties - at an average of 58.62 and a strike rate of 109.32.
85* Partnership between Saad Nasim and Wahab Riaz - Pakistan's highest against Bangladesh for the seventh wicket and only their second fifty-plus stand against the opposition. Kamran Akmal and Mohammad Yousuf had added 53 in an ODI in 2003.

Shiva Jayaraman is a sub-editor (stats) at ESPNcricinfo.com