Give me five

In Bangladesh U19’s defeat of Canada U19 at Lincoln on Monday, two young bowlers each recorded five-wicket hauls in the same match for only the fourth time in ICC Under 19 World Cup history.

Opening the bowling, Canada’s Faisal Jamkhandi removed the dangerous Pinak Ghosh in his first over and was unstoppable thereafter, claiming a second victim in his opening spell, before returning to pick up three more at the death, including Bangladesh’s brilliant centurion, Towrid Hridoy.

Jamkhandi’s 5/48 may have been the first five-wicket haul recorded in the tournament, but it took just a few hours for Bangladesh’s Afif Hossein – who had earlier made a rearguard 50 in Bangladesh’s innings – to join him at the top of the charts.

After a tidy start by Canada, it was Hossein who made the initial breakthrough, removing Sandhu with the score on 33. From then on, the off-spinner was unstoppable, his five wickets underscoring Bangladesh’s eventual 66-run victory. With a five-for and a fifty, Hossein became just the third player to achieve the feat in an ICC U19 CWC match, after Sri Lanka’s Jeevan Mendis in 2002 and Wayne Parnell of South Africa in 2008.

The feat – of two U19 players each taking five wickets in the same match – has only happened three times before in the ICC U19 CWC.

The first instance, in Chittagong in 2004, saw Bangladesh’s Nazmul Hossain (5/30) and Uganda’s Emmanuel Isaneez (6/37) share the plaudits; in 2010, Afghanistan’s Aftab Alam (6/34) and Papua New Guinea’s Raymond Haoda (5/34) repeated the feat in Napier; and two years later at Townsville in Australia, Papua New Guinea’s Chad Soper ran through India to claim 5/32 before Ravikant Singh struck back with 5/21 as India won by 107 runs.