MOMENTS
MOMENT OF JOY IN THE PRESS BOX
The second day was a disappointing one in the Sylhet press box as the home side had a horrible outing against Zimbabwe. Despite the positive start to the day with Bangladesh managing to pick five quick wickets to bundle out Zimbabwe for 282, courtesy of Taijul Islam's six-wicket haul, the home batsman wasted the opportunity. They kept losing wickets in clusters and at one stage were reeling at 49 for five. The environment in the press box also became gloomy and there were questions about whether the Tigers, with five wickets in hand, would be able to score the 33 runs needed to avoid the follow-on. Not long after, when Mehedi Hasan Miraz struck a boundary off Kyle Jarvis to take the score to 82, it was a small moment of joy as the journalists in the press box applauded. Those who think the applause was a sarcastic one, probably did not see the regularity and inevitability with which the first five batsmen returned to the pavilion.
WHO LET THE DOGS OUT?
After the young boy who ran onto the field and hugged Mushfiqur Rahim on the first day, there was another pitch invasion at the Sylhet International Stadium during the second day's play yesterday. This time, however, it was a dog that hogged the spotlight as it ran towards the pitch in the middle of Bangladesh's innings and delayed proceedings for a while. The security personnel did eventually manage to guide the dog out of the ground without much difficulty. However, it was not the first time that a dog stopped play at the picturesque venue. A similar incident took place during a Bangladesh Premier League game last year and the canine intruder literally dodged the security staff for quite some time before finally deciding to leave the ground.
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