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Impressive Taskin keeps living up to expectation

BSS, Brisbane :
Fast bowler Taskin Ahmed continued to live up to the expectation, making Bangladesh a strong contender in the ICC T20 World Cup even though his side time and again proves them vulnerable in this format.
Bangladesh so far won two matches out of three in the tournament and both victory came, thanks to a terrific bowling performance of Taskin Ahmed. He was adjudged Man of the Match in Bangladesh’s both wins, showing how influential he turned out to be in terms of performance. Not only that, he is now the highest wicket-taker in this World Cup with eight wickets from three matches.
Taskin in fact was always a wicket-taking bowler but the fact is that his achievement was dented due to leaking runs in abundance. Of late he plugged this loophole, making him almost unplayable. Netherlands and Zimbabwe got the wrath as they were undone by his searing spell.
And he also made taking wicket in the first over a habit one. After getting wicket first over against Netherlands and South Africa in the previous two matches in the first over, he again took a wicket in the first over against Zimbabwe in Brisbane on Sunday. That set the tone against an opponent who beat them in three match T20 series by 2-1 three months ago and also came up with high on confidence after beating Pakistan by one run in the last ball thriller in the previous game.
Taskin ended up taking 3-19 but most importantly broke the spine of Zimbabwe batting line up after Bangladesh put up 150-7.