Player of the Match
Player of the Match

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Best performances - Batsmen

Mushfiqur Rahim
Mushfiqur Rahim
46(37) 7x4 - 0x6
Control %59%
  • Productive Shot
  • off drive
  • 10 runs
  • 2x4 - 0x6
11 4 1 10 4 8 0 8
Mahmudullah
Mahmudullah
45(38) 3x4 - 2x6
Control %73%
  • Productive Shot
  • slog shot
  • 14 runs
  • 0x4 - 2x6
4 8 1 4 3 4 4 17

Best performances - Bowlers

Nazmul Islam
Nazmul Islam
O4
M0
R18
W2
Eco4.50
RHB
OFFLEG
1W
1W
  • FTFULL TOSS
  • YYORKER
  • FFULL LENGTH
  • GGOOD LENGTH
  • SGSHORT OF GOOD LENGTH
  • SSHORT LENGTH
Abu Jayed
Abu Jayed
O4
M0
R27
W2
Eco6.75
RHB
OFFLEG
1W
1W
  • FTFULL TOSS
  • YYORKER
  • FFULL LENGTH
  • GGOOD LENGTH
  • SGSHORT OF GOOD LENGTH
  • SSHORT LENGTH
LHB
LEGOFF

Match Details

Toss

Afghanistan , elected to bat first

Player Of The Match

Player Of The Series

Series result

Afghanistan won the 3-match series 3-0

Match number

Season

Hours of play (local time)

20.00 start, First Session 20.00-21.20, Interval 21.20-21.40, Second Session 21.40-23.00

Match days

7 June 2018 - night match (20-over match)

Reserve Umpire

Match Referee

END OF OVER:
20 | 7 Runs 2 Wkts | BAN: 144/6 (2 runs required, RR: 7.20)

  • Ariful Haque5 (3b)
  • Rashid Khan4-0-24-1
  • Karim Janat4-0-44-1

11.55pm Asghar Stanikzai collects the trophy and soaks in the landmark moment with his team-mates. Scenes in Dehradun. Afghanistan will next travel to Bengaluru for their maiden Test, which begins on June 14. Many thanks for tuning in. Goodbye and good night for now.

Mushfiqur, Man of the Match: We knew it was going to be difficult in this track. Credit goes to Afghanistan and they deserve the win. Hopefully, we will learn from this. Although, we lost the series we were playing for pride. I thought 145+ was par, but with Mujeeb and Rashid it was tough. We lost early wickets and Shakib, we needed more partnership and boundaries. The wicket, however, was slow. We just wanted to take it to the last over. Rashid is difficult to play. Last ball can go either way.

Rashid Khan, Man of the Series (and Man of the Year already?): I am always trying my best to believe in my skills. I had one plan: whatever happens bowl in good-length area. Whether legspin or wrong'un, I just enjoy. The ball was gripping on a good length and that was my plan. Bowling this area got me success. Full credit to my fitness. If you're fit, you can delivery in any department. Doesn't matter whether I'm playing in league cricket or national team, I just want to enjoy. Thanks to the crowd for the support and love you've given us. We will come again and again to Dehradun. We will give you the best performances.

Shakib: We played better today than last two games. Overall, we have to come up with better plans. I thought we restricted them to reasonable total. We were so close, but in the middle overs that cost us. I thought Mushfiq and Mahmudullah gave us a chance but they could not finish it. These conditions suited Afghanistan and they had quality spinners.

Stanikzai: Good to win the series 3-0. Great preparation for Test match against India. The morale is high. Last couple of years we have performed well. We want to achieve it for Afghanistan. You see the batsmen, bowlers are all in good form. We have a few days for the Test match - thanks for the support.

11.40pm Afghanistan's players go on a lap of honour. What an effort from Shafiqullah. They last ball seemed destined to go to the boundary until he intervened and sealed a memorable 3-0 series win for Afghanistan. Karim Janat was smashed for five successive boundaries in the penultimate over, but that man Rashid Khan finished it off for his team with a stellar final over backed up by stellar fielding. After all, not many can defended eight off the last over.

Sourabh Sriom: "Stanikzai's address to the crowd was heart warming. They have embraced India as their home and Indians have embraced them as one of their own. I am up after working all night just to watch them play. Never thought this would happen for any other team than India."

MahneelMusa: "You think breakups and heartbreaks are tough? Come be a fan of Bangladesh cricket team."

Arunkumar: "Rashid Khan is the only bowler in the world right now that I'll be confident of defending 8 runs in the last over."

19.6
W
Rashid Khan to Ariful Haque, 2 runs, OUT, SENSATIONAL effort at the edge of the long-on boundary from Shafiqullah. He was won it for Afghanistan. They whitewash Bangladesh 3-0! Another googly, but the length is shorter and outside off, hoicked away hard and flat to long-on. Will it go over the boundary? Nope. Shafiqullah leaps to his left and attempts to catch the ball. He can't catch it but manages to swat it into the field of play even as the ball swerves away from his reach. Then the ball somehow finds its way to wicketkeeper Shahzad, who breaks the bails, to run out Mahmudullah on the third. The third umpire is called in to see if Shafiqullah had stepped beyond the boundary when he flicked the ball back into the field of play. It is a matter of an inch, but he had not. And if Bangladesh had pilfered the third run, it would have been a tie. Shahzad does the nagin dance now. Go for it, champ. Rashid takes flight in joy. Celebrations in full swing in the Afghanistan camp. Madcap finish in Dehradun

Mahmudullah run out 45 (38b 3x4 2x6) SR: 118.42

Rashid, Shahzad, and Gani have a mini-conference. Mahmudullah and Ariful, playing his first game of the series, chat at the other end. Bangladesh need four off the last ball

19.5
1
Rashid Khan to Mahmudullah, 1 run, another wrong'un outside off, Mahmudullah drags a sweep to deep midwicket off the inside half
19.4
1
Rashid Khan to Ariful Haque, 1 run, tossed-up legbreak, spins away outside off, slogs and edges it to short third man
19.3
2
Rashid Khan to Ariful Haque, 2 runs, wrong'un outside off, Ariful does not pick the variation, goes low and swings for the hills nevertheless. He slog-sweeps and inside-edges it past the stumps, wide of the keeper

Bangladesh need eight off four balls

19.2
1
Rashid Khan to Mahmudullah, 1 run, googly? drifting down leg, Mahmudullah tickles a sweep and finds short fine leg

The batsmen crossed over. So, Mahmudullah on strike

19.1
W
Rashid Khan to Mushfiqur Rahim, OUT, Rashid has Mushfiqur holing out to deep square leg. What a gun bowler. Rashid pushes it through full on middle stump, Mushfiqur goes for his favourite slog-sweep but he does not get all of it. He hits it straight into the lap of Najibullah Zadran

Mushfiqur Rahim c Najibullah Zadran b Rashid Khan 46 (37b 7x4 0x6) SR: 124.32

Can Rashid defend eight off the last over? Bangladesh will back their seniors Mushfiqur and Mahmudullah

Bangladesh 2nd innings Partnerships

WktRunsPlayers
1st16Tamim IqbalLitton Das
2nd16Soumya SarkarLitton Das
3rd3Mushfiqur RahimLitton Das
4th18Mushfiqur RahimShakib Al Hasan
5th84MahmudullahMushfiqur Rahim
6th7MahmudullahAriful Haque