The effective DJ

Bangladesh let loose as many as four debutants in the match and three of the them in the bowling attack - Muktar Ali, Mohammad Shahid and Abu Hider. While two of them picked up wickets, it was Hider who stood out. All Zimbabwe wickets were falling when the batsmen were offering catches while going for big shots. Five of the six batsmen were caught, except Hider's maiden international wicket. In the last over of the innings, he sent down an accurate yorker to left-handed batsman Sean Williams who shuffled down the pitch for a flick. Williams missed and Hider trapped him low right in front with the same weapon that had reaped him benefits in the BPL last year.

The toss for the match had already been delayed by 20 minutes and the first ball was bowled just in time after a rain interruption. The match got underway and officials, groundsmen, players and fans, all kept getting distracted by the overcast skies that kept the rain threat looming. Just when nobody wanted any more rain, the DJ at the ground played Pitbull's 'Let it rain over me' after the Powerplay and the rain obediently came down right after the seventh over was completed. Not sure if he/she will do that again even when sitting at home on a non-match day.

Bangladesh cricket fans and followers are familiar with the noise Mushfiqur Rahim has been making behind the stumps right from the start of his career. Nurul Hasan seemed to have taken over from Mushfiqur, ensuring that there was no respite for the stump microphones. Nurul kept screaming after nearly every ball for catches, fielders, appeals, run-outs, everything. The most cacophonous of the lot came in the 12th over when Williams tried to sweep Mosaddek Hossain and missed. Nurul then let out the loudest squeal the walls of Sheikh Abu Naser Stadium would have heard. With legs spread apart and both hands high in the air, Nurul screamed and jumped as if to let out an SOS call to a helicopter above him. And that too when Williams had gloved the ball onto his pad.

As far as reverse hits go, Glenn Maxwell had already started the day in Canberra with a reverse lap to collect four runs in the last over of Australia's innings to help them amass 348 for 8. A debutant in Khulna - Mosaddek Hossain - displayed a much better version, though. Legspinner Graeme Cremer pitched a ball on length in the tenth over and Mosaddek switched his position around to look just like a left-handed batsman and reverse pulled that well behind square for a cracking four from the middle of the bat. "Shanked it", as Maxwell would say.

Sabbir Rahman and Soumya Sarkar had been going after the bowlers in the initial overs of the chase as the asking rate approached ten per over. Left-arm pacer Brian Vitori conceded 13 in his first over and changed ends to come back in the fifth over. He was hit for two more fours by Sabbir - both to the leg side - and Vitori then replied with a delivery that would have done Daniel Vettori proud. He dug in a short ball by rolling his fingers over it, sucked the pace out of the ball to make it a slow offcutter and got the reward he wanted - a dot ball.