Player of the Match
Player of the Match

This was the third highest win for Bangladesh in T20Is in terms of runs. They looked a confident side and did not let Afghanistan get away with big powerplay runs. The visitors have a couple of days to review their performance and make amends. You can catch all the action here on ESPNcricinfo. For now, this is Ekanth, signing off on behalf of Himanshu Agrawal, my fellow commentator and K Vairavan, our scorer. Cheers.

Mahmudullah, Bangladesh Captain: Pleasing to see how the boys fought in the middle with the bat, ball. The energy was good too. We thought the total was defendable. Nasum bowled really well, it was a match-changing spell. Litton was superb with the bat, once he gets going it's eye-pleasing. We are happy to win against Afghanistan, who have a good T20 side. But we can't sit back after one win and will look to do it again in the next game.

Nasum Ahmed is the Player of the Match for his 4-0-10-4 - Says his plan was to restrict the runs, pile on the pressure, and take early wickets which came off.

Mohammad Nabi, Afghanistan Captain: The boys bowled really well and restricted them to 150. We thought we could chase it but threw away our wickets in the powerplay which cost us the game. We will try our best in the next game to fight back.

6:16 pm The 50-50 game turned into a one-sider after Nasum took four in the powerplay. The batters taking him on gifted him wickets and the odd missed opportunity or two did not matter as the wickets bogged down the innings. Shakib broke the steady partnership between Nabi and Zadran, brought up his 400th LOI wicket. The procession then continued to the end as the visitors could not get to the three-figure mark.

Sajid: "Very colorful last over!!"

17.4
W
Shoriful Islam to Mujeeb Ur Rahman, OUT, Pulled straight to deep mid-wicket It was into the pitch just wide of off, he pulled it and got a decent hit but not enough to clear the fielder who took it over his left shoulder without having to move much

Mujeeb Ur Rahman c Afif Hossain b Shoriful Islam 4 (5m 4b 1x4 0x6) SR: 100.00

Tasmeem: "One thing is in subcontinent, finger spin rules. The pitches generally aid spin, so traditional spinners do better in all competitions. Teams look for control, which maximum leg spinners fail to provide. So, people tend to want to be the sort of bowlers that get to play, without trying to bring about the change themselves."

17.3
4
Shoriful Islam to Mujeeb Ur Rahman, FOUR, Length on the body, pulls it through mid-wicket and enjoys the boundary
17.2
W
Shoriful Islam to Qais Ahmad, OUT, Skied to the bowler It was slow on a back of a good length, he made room and tried to slog it over mid-wicket. It took the top-edge to the bowler's right. He had time to take it comfortably

Qais Ahmad c & b Shoriful Islam 8 (13m 9b 1x4 0x6) SR: 88.88

17.1
4
Shoriful Islam to Qais Ahmad, FOUR, Length outside off, freed his arms and smacked it. Came off the bottom of the bat but beat mid-off to his right along the ground

Around the wicket

END OF OVER:
17 | 2 Runs 1 Wkt | AFG: 86/8 (70 runs required from 18 balls, RR: 5.05, RRR: 23.33)

  • Mujeeb Ur Rahman0 (2b)
  • Qais Ahmad4 (7b)
  • Mustafizur Rahman3-0-19-1
  • Shoriful Islam3-0-21-1

Ahasan: "@tinura, most of the pitches in bd is slow and turing, so even finger spinners are pretty hard to play. So teams don't take risk on wrist spinners, because they sometime leak runs. So they never get the opportunity and hence could not come to next stage"

16.6
0
Mustafizur Rahman to Mujeeb Ur Rahman, no run, Stays clear of the line and tries to cream it over cover but it's a bit too far and goes through fourth stump to the keeper's gloves
16.5
0
Mustafizur Rahman to Mujeeb Ur Rahman, no run, Length outside off goes away with the angle and beats the cut
16.4
1
Mustafizur Rahman to Qais Ahmad, 1 run, Length on the stumps, gets across and sweeps it from knee-high to deep backward square
16.3
W
Mustafizur Rahman to Azmatullah Omarzai, OUT, Sliced to cover It was slow, on a good length around middle. Omarzai gave himself room and tried to slog it over long off but holes out to Mahmudullah

Azmatullah Omarzai c Mahmudullah b Mustafizur Rahman 20 (22m 18b 2x4 1x6) SR: 111.11

16.2
1
Mustafizur Rahman to Qais Ahmad, 1 run, Slow, low full toss around off. It had drift and the batter flicks it to deep square. They look for the second but decide against it

Afghanistan 2nd innings Partnerships

WktRunsPlayers
1st1Hazratullah ZazaiRahmanullah Gurbaz
2nd7Hazratullah ZazaiDarwish Rasooli
3rd0Najibullah ZadranDarwish Rasooli
4th12Najibullah ZadranKarim Janat
5th37Mohammad NabiNajibullah Zadran
6th5Najibullah ZadranAzmatullah Omarzai
7th4Rashid KhanAzmatullah Omarzai
8th19Azmatullah OmarzaiQais Ahmad
9th5Qais AhmadMujeeb Ur Rahman
10th4Mujeeb Ur RahmanFazalhaq Farooqi