NAIROBI, Sept 4: Bangladesh, riding on Mashrafe Mortaza’s unbeaten 20-ball 40, defeated Uganda by 21 runs in the fifth match of the Twenty20 Quadrangular tournament on Tuesday.

Chasing 146 to win, Uganda got off to a frenetic start when Roger Mukasa lofted Syed Rasel over long-off for a six off the first ball of the innings before mistiming the third to Farhad Reza at cover. Abdur Razzak, the left-arm spinner, kept it tight in the next over, with the only runs coming as leg-byes.

It got worse for Uganda when Lawrence Sematimba was stumped by Mushfiqur Rahim after missing a leg-side delivery from Rasel and Arthur Kyobe was run out to leave them at 31 for 3.

But captain Joel Olwenyi, coming in at No 4, did not let the early wickets deter him and top-scored with 46 off 36 balls with three fours and two sixes.

Nandi Patel hit a 20-ball 21 before he was caught in the deep.

Summarised scores:

BANGLADESH 145-5 in 20 overs (Mashrafe Mortaza 40, Tamim Iqbal 27, Aftab Ahmed 23; E. Isaneez 2-21, J. Olwenyi 2-29); UGANDA 124-9 in 20 overs (J. Olwenyi 46, N. Patel 21; Syed Rasel 2-19, Abdur Razzak 2-19, Mohammad Ashraful 2-27, Mashrafe Mortaza 2-29).—Agencies