Tamim's joy and Ajmal's relief

The calmer celebration
All eyes were on Tamim Iqbal when he reached the 90s, to see how he would celebrate this hundred. The moment he clipped Junaid Khan through fine leg, he went running towards the dressing room. This time there was no anger, just joy. He swung his arm around five times and punched the air. Sixth ODI hundred in the bag, he just soaked up the applause.

The chant
Mashrafe Mortaza threw the ball towards Rubel Hossain at the end of the seventh over, which brought a loud cheer from a half-filled Shere Bangla National Stadium. The in-house DJ didn't need to announce Rubel's name, but he did, and the crowd cheered again. A few seconds later the uncovered eastern gallery started a chant. It was the name of the actress with whom Rubel was embroiled in a controversy before the World Cup.

The cry rolled around the whole ground until Rubel got to the top of his mark after a couple of swings of the arm. He bowled slightly outside off stump, Sarfraz Ahmed edged it and Soumya Sarkar at slip obliged. Curiously but thankfully, the chant didn't start again.

The connection
Haris Sohail was at the crease for 30 overs but hardly connected a ball with full satisfaction. Both his boundary hits, however, were drilled past and over the bowler. The first was through mid-off off his 12th delivery, but he crawled back into his shell. Finally off his 56th ball, Sohail bludgeoned Shakib Al Hasan over his head for a six. The hit was clean, went high and higher, hitting the sightscreen.

The relief
Saeed Ajmal hadn't played international cricket for more than seven months. He made his comeback in the first ODI but went wicketless and was carted for 74 in ten overs.

The attack kept going after Tamim hit him for three successive fours in his first over of this game. In his fourth over, Ajmal finally got his first wicket when Mahmudullah missed a slog sweep. There wasn't much of a celebration but there was relief written on Ajmal's face.

The trademark
Mushfiqur Rahim going down on one knee to a spinner and slogging towards midwicket has become his trademark. He has hit through that region plenty of times in the last four years, most famously against West Indies on his captaincy debut in 2011 when it brought Bangladesh a victory off the penultimate ball.

In the last game he struck two sixes and three fours with the shot and the moment he middled one off Saeed Ajmal in the 19th over, there was only going to be one result: a six.