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Butt's century completes sweep
Agencies
Published in The Saudi Gazette on 20 - 04 - 2008

breaking century by opener Salman Butt propelled Pakistan to a crushing 150-run win over Bangladesh in the fifth and final one-dayer on Saturday.
Pakistan completed a 5-0 series sweep after amassing 329 for nine, its highest total against Bangladesh, and bowling the visitors out for 179 in 40.5 overs.
Butt's 136, his second hundred in five matches, gave him the record for most runs (451) scored by a Pakistani in a bilateral series and by any one-day international batsman in a five-match series.
He comfortably surpassed the previous best of 405 by compatriot Mohammad Yousuf in a five-match series against Zimbabwe in 2003.
Pakistan President Pervez Musharraf witnessed the final overs as Pakistan took its record winning streak in one-dayers to 11, with 10 coming against Bangladesh and Zimbabwe.
Bangladesh's batsmen were undone by the new ball. Mohammad Asif took three quick wickets, including two in successive balls in his third over, to reduce Bangladesh to 23 for four.
Captain Mohammad Ashraful made his highest score of the series (30) before his soft dismissal in the 14th over opened the floodgates again.
Asif had opener Junaid Siddique caught at gully by Butt for six and next ball trapped Aftab Ahmed lbw for a duck.
Fellow paceman Umar Gul had opener Tamim Iqbal (9) caught behind and the biggest blow came when Asif bowled Shakib Al Hasan (5), who made 75 and 108 in the two previous games.
Ashraful pushed a wide ball from Shahid Afridi to first slip before left-arm paceman Wahab Riaz bowled Farhad Reza (1) off an inside edge to make it 71 for six.
Mahmudullah Shahadat Hossain (37) and wicketkeeper Dhiman Ghosh (29) featured in a face-saving stand of 57 but Afridi then struck twice in quick succession, dismissing Ghosh and Mashrafe Mortaza (2).
Earlier, Butt again put Bangladesh's bowlers to the sword, making his sixth one-day hundred from 100 balls with nine fours and one six.
He and Younis Khan (69) set the platform for the record total by putting on 179 from 178 balls for the second wicket after Kamran Akmal (10) fell to Mortaza, who finished with four for 65.
Yousuf out of T20
Pakistan on Friday dropped experienced batsman Mohammad Yousuf for its first ever home Twenty20 international, against Bangladesh on Sunday.
Squad: Shoaib Malik (captain), Salman Butt, Younis Khan, Nasir Jamshed, Misbah-ul-Haq, Shahid Afridi, Kamran Akmal, Mohammad Asif, Umar Gul, Sohail Tanvir, Rao Iftikhar, Wahab Riaz, Fawad Alam, Shoaib Khan, Mansoor Amjad.Australia agrees to split tour
Cricket Australia have agreed to split its postponed tour of Pakistan into two and complete it before the teams meet in Australia in 2009, the Pakistan Cricket Board said on Saturday. __


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