Bangladeshi cricket team in Zimbabwe in 2000–01
# Bangladeshi cricket team in Zimbabwe in 2000–01

The Bangladeshi cricket team toured Zimbabwe for a two-match Test series and a three-match One Day International (ODI) series between 7 and 30 April 2001. Zimbabwe won the Test series 2–0 and the ODI series 3–0. It was Bangladesh's inaugural overseas Test series.

## Squads

| Zimbabwe Test | Bangladesh Test | Zimbabwe ODI | Bangladesh ODI |
| - | - | - | - |
| Heath Streak (c) Mluleki Nkala Andy Flower (wk) Alistair Campbell Grant Flower Guy Whittall Stuart Carlisle Andy Blignaut Brian Murphy Dion Ebrahim Brighton Watambwa Ray Price | Naimur Rahman (c) Habibul Bashar Javed Omar Khaled Mashud (wk) Mohammad Sharif Aminul Islam Akram Khan Hasibul Hossain Mehrab Hossain Manjural Islam Mushfiqur Rahman Enamul Haque Moni Al Sahariar | Heath Streak (c) Andy Flower (wk) Alistair Campbell Grant Flower Guy Whittall Stuart Carlisle Bryan Strang Dirk Viljoen Andy Blignaut David Mutendera Dion Ebrahim | Naimur Rahman (c) Habibul Bashar Javed Omar Khaled Mashud (wk) Mohammad Rafique Mohammad Sharif Aminul Islam Akram Khan Al Sahariar Manjural Islam Mushfiqur Rahman Mehrab Hossain Mohammad Ashraful |

## ODI series

### 1st ODI

* 7 April 2001 Scorecard

| Bangladesh 151/8 (50 overs) | v | Zimbabwe 155/3 (43.1 overs) |
| - | - | - |
| Akram Khan 35 (108) Andy Blignaut 2/24 (10 overs) | | Andy Flower 40* (63) Mushfiqur Rahman 1/20 (10 overs) |

* Zimbabwe won by 7 wickets Harare Sports Club, Harare Umpires: Kevan Barbour (Zim) and Graeme Evans (Zim) Player of the match: Bryan Strang (Zim)
* Bangladesh won the toss and elected to bat.
* Dion Ebrahim (Zim) and Mohammad Sharif (Ban) made their debut.

### 2nd ODI

* 8 April 2001 Scorecard

| Zimbabwe 230/7 (50 overs) | v | Bangladesh 103 (30.4 overs) |
| - | - | - |
| Alistair Campbell 103 (145) Mohammad Manjural Islam 3/37 (10 overs) | | Javed Omar 33* (86) David Mutendera 3/23 (5.4 overs) |

* Zimbabwe won by 127 runs Harare Sports Club, Harare Umpires: Ahmed Esat (Zim) and Ian Robinson (Zim) Player of the match: Alistair Campbell (Zim)
* Bangladesh won the toss and elected to field.
* Javed Omar carries his bat.

### 3rd ODI

* 11 April 2001 Scorecard

| Zimbabwe 308/4 (50 overs) | v | Bangladesh 272/8 (50 overs) |
| - | - | - |
| Grant Flower 142* (128) Mohammad Manjural Islam 2/50 (10 overs) | | Habibul Bashar 74 (91) Bryan Strang 3/56 (10 overs) |

* Zimbabwe won by 36 runs Queens Sports Club, Bulawayo Umpires: Russell Tiffin (Zim) and Charles Coventry (Zim) Player of the match: Grant Flower (Zim)
* Zimbabwe won the toss and elected to bat.
* Mohammad Ashraful (Ban) made his debut.

## Test series

### 1st Test

* 19–22 April 2001 Scorecard
* Zimbabwe won by an innings and 32 runs Queens Sports Club, Bulawayo Umpires: Kevan Barbour (Zim) and Rudi Koertzen (SA) Player of the match: Javed Omar (Ban)
* Zimbabwe won the toss and elected to field.
* Dion Ebrahim, Andy Blignaut, Brighton Watambwa (Zim) and Javed Omar, Mushfiqur Rahman, Mohammad Sharif and Manjural Islam (Ban) all made their debut.
* Javed Omar carries his bat in the second innings.

### 2nd Test

* 26–30 April 2001 Scorecard
* Zimbabwe won by 8 wickets Harare Sports Club, Harare Umpires: Doug Cowie (NZ), Russell Tiffin (Zim) Player of the match: Guy Whittall (Zim)
* Zimbabwe won the toss and elected to field.
* Enamul Haque Moni (Ban) made his test debut.
