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At the beginning of the World Cup, thousands of discussions and criticisms started about the Bangladesh team. However, everything seems to have come to an end in the first match. Bangladesh started the World Cup mission by destroying Afghanistan. Tiger Army won by 6 wickets with 92 balls remaining.
Bangladesh and Afghanistan will meet in the third match of the World Cup at Dharamsala, India on Saturday (October 7) at 11 am. Shakib Al Hasan invited Afghanistan to bat after winning the toss in the match. Batting first, the Afghan forces lost all wickets after scoring 156 runs in 37.2 overs. In response, Bangladesh won by losing 4 wickets in 34.4 overs.
Mehdi Hasan Miraj led Bangladesh's victory with 57 runs with the bat and 3 wickets with the ball. Photo: Collected
At the start of the match, the Tigers had to gain momentum to break the opening pair of the Afghans. However, the world's best all-rounder Shakib gave the team a breakthrough of 47 runs. He took the wicket of Najibullah Zadran when he came to bowl in the second over of his quota. At that time, opener Zadran scored 22 runs before returning to Sajghar with a catch from Tanjid Tamim.
Then Rahmanullah Gurbaz was spinning the wheel of runs with Rahmat Shah. Shakib also broke their pair of 36 runs. Rehmat caught Liton Das inside the crease. Afghan batsman scored 18 runs off 25 balls.
Mehdi Hasan Miraj sent back Hashmatullah Shahidi for the team's 112 runs. The Afghan captain took a catch in the hands of Tawheed Hriday while chasing the boundary. He returned to Sajghar after scoring 18 runs off 38 balls. Then Mustafizur Rahman struck. Rahmanullah Gurbaz became dangerous and left the field after becoming his victim.
Shakib came to bowl his sixth over in the team's 29th over. He directly broke the stumps of Najibullah Jadran in that over. The Afghan batsman departed for 5 runs. Mohammad Nabi was bowled directly in Taskin's personal fifth over. The Afghan all-rounder scored 6 runs off 12 balls. Rashid Khan returns with 9 runs.
However, Azmatullah played an effective innings. After scoring 22 runs off 20 balls, Shariful Islam left the field as an inside edge. At that time, the Afghan team's score was 156. Mirage sent back Mujeeb with the score still standing. He also took Rashid's wicket. Naveen ul Haque and Fazal Haq Farooqui could not open the account of runs. In Bangladesh, except Mahmudullah Riyad, all the rest got wickets.
Batting with a target of just 157 runs, Bangladesh lost their first wicket for 19 runs. Opener Tanjid Hasan Tamim (5 runs from 13 balls) was caught in the run out trap. After that, Afghan bowler Fazlhaq Farooqui returned another opener Liton Das for 27 runs. Lytton went for a classic shot off Farooqui's off-stump. But the ball went inside-edge and hit the leg-stump. Litton's innings ended with 13 runs off 18 balls. After that Shanto and Miraj took the lead of the team.
In between, Mirage, who got life a few times, picked up a half century. In the end, he was out for a personal 57 runs. Mirage played 72 balls to score this run. This Bangladeshi all-rounder has hit 5 fours in his innings of 57 runs. He went on to bowl Novin over mid-off in 28.1 overs. But Rahmat Shah took a great catch there. That was the fall of the third wicket.
After that, captain Shakib proceeded to the port of victory with Shanto. However, Shakib returned to Sajghar with only 11 runs remaining from victory. World's best all-rounder Omarzai, who scored 14 runs off 19 balls, returned with a catch in the hands of Fazal Haq Farooqui, who was standing at midwicket. In the end Shanto left the field after confirming the win with Mushfiq. Shanto remained unbeaten on 59 runs off 83 balls with the help of 3 fours and 1 six. And 2 unbeaten runs from 3 balls came from the bat of Mushfiqur Rahim.
Short score
Afghanistan: 156/10 in 37.2 overs (Gurbaz 47, Ibrahim 22, Rahmat 18, Shahidi 18, Najibullah 5, Nabi 6, Omarzai 22, Rashid 9, Mujeeb 1, Naveen 0, Farooqui 0*; Taskin 6-0-32 -1, Shariful 6.2-1-34-2, Mustafiz 7-1-28-1, Shakib 8-0-30-3, Miraz 9-3-25-3, Mahmudullah 1-0-7-0) .
Bangladesh: 158/4 in 34.4 overs (Tanjid Tamim 5, Litton 13, Miraj 57, Shanto 59*, Shakib 14, Mushfiq 2*; Farooqui 5-0-19-1, Mujeeb 7-0-30-0, Naveen 5.4-0-31-1, Rashid 9-0-48-0, Nabi 6-1-18-0 and Omarzai 2-0-9-1).
Result: Bangladesh won by 6 wickets.
Man of the Match: Mehdi Hasan Miraj.
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