"When the run out happened, people started coming in and I started running," said Khaled Mahmud Sujan. After defeating Pakistan in the 1999 World Cup, Bangladeshi cricket fans really couldn't contain themselves. They are introduced with a different feeling. It was a different experience for everyone involved in cricket.
Because that was Bangladesh's first World Cup, and that was the taste of losing a Test status team for the first time. The man of the match of that match was Khaled Mahmud Sujan. He thinks that the win took Bangladesh another step towards getting Test status.
But its context is actually further back. And that victory with Pakistan is not the biggest victory in the cricket history of Bangladesh, and it is not a celebration!
Many of those who grew up in the nineties started their love of cricket with the 1997 ICC Trophy. Listening to the game on the radio, Bangladesh's epic 1-ball 1-run match with Kenya, followed by colorful celebrations, the colors that spread across the country!
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Twenty-six years ago, Bangladesh's ICC trophy victory paved the way for today's Shakib-Tamim-Mushfiqur.