Afghanistan beats Bangladesh by 7 wickets in the Asia Cup 2022 match played on Tuesday evening at the Sharjah Cricket Stadium to register their second consecutive win of the tournament.
With the Thumping win, Afghanistan finishes on top of the group and becomes the first team to confirm place in the super 4 stages of the tournament.
On a well-rolled Sharjah pitch, Bangladesh captain Shakib Al Hasan opted to bat first after winning the toss.
Spinners Mujeeb Ur Rahman and Rashid Khan took three wickets as Afghanistan restricted the opposition to 127-7.
Chasing 128 for victory, Afghanistan were in trouble at 62-3 when Najibullah (43) joined Ibrahim Zadran (42) for an unbeaten stand of 69 and sailed their side to the victory with nine balls to spare.
Najibullah Zadran tore into the Bangladesi bowling attack with six sixes.
BATTING | R | B | M | 4s | 6s | SR | |||
---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
Mohammad Naim | b Mujeeb Ur Rahman | 6 | 8 | 9 | 1 | 0 | 75.00 | ||
Anamul Haque | lbw b Mujeeb Ur Rahman | 5 | 14 | 18 | 0 | 0 | 35.71 | ||
Shakib Al Hasan (c) | b Mujeeb Ur Rahman | 11 | 9 | 18 | 2 | 0 | 122.22 | ||
Mushfiqur Rahim † | lbw b Rashid Khan | 1 | 4 | 14 | 0 | 0 | 25.00 | ||
Afif Hossain | lbw b Rashid Khan | 12 | 15 | 30 | 0 | 0 | 80.00 | ||
Mahmudullah | c Ibrahim Zadran b Rashid Khan | 25 | 27 | 48 | 1 | 0 | 92.59 | ||
Mosaddek Hossain | not out | 48 | 31 | 47 | 4 | 1 | 154.83 | ||
Mahedi Hasan | run out (†Rahmanullah Gurbaz/Azmatullah Omarzai) | 14 | 12 | 22 | 2 | 0 | 116.66 | ||
Mohammad Saifuddin | not out | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | – | ||
Extras | (lb 3, w 2) | 5 | |||||||
TOTAL | 20 Overs (RR: 6.35) | 127/7 | | ||||||
Did not bat: Taskin Ahmed, Mustafizur Rahman | |||||||||
Fall of wickets: 1-7 (Mohammad Naim, 1.6 ov), 2-13 (Anamul Haque, 3.6 ov), 3-24 (Shakib Al Hasan, 5.2 ov), 4-28 (Mushfiqur Rahim, 6.2 ov), 5-53 (Afif Hossain, 10.3 ov), 6-89 (Mahmudullah, 15.4 ov), 7-127 (Mahedi Hasan, 19.5 ov) |
BOWLING | O | M | R | W | ECON | 0s | 4s | 6s | WD | NB |
---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
Fazalhaq Farooqi | 4 | 0 | 25 | 0 | 6.25 | 9 | 3 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
Mujeeb Ur Rahman | 4 | 0 | 16 | 3 | 4.00 | 13 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 |
Naveen-ul-Haq | 4 | 0 | 31 | 0 | 7.75 | 7 | 4 | 0 | 1 | 0 |
Rashid Khan | 4 | 0 | 22 | 3 | 5.50 | 8 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
Mohammad Nabi | 3 | 0 | 23 | 0 | 7.66 | 5 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 0 |
Azmatullah Omarzai | 1 | 0 | 7 | 0 | 7.00 | 2 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
BATTING | R | B | M | 4s | 6s | SR | |||
---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
Hazratullah Zazai | lbw b Mosaddek Hossain | 23 | 26 | 34 | 3 | 0 | 88.46 | ||
Rahmanullah Gurbaz † | st †Mushfiqur Rahim b Shakib Al Hasan | 11 | 18 | 15 | 1 | 0 | 61.11 | ||
Ibrahim Zadran | not out | 42 | 41 | 60 | 4 | 0 | 102.43 | ||
Mohammad Nabi (c) | lbw b Mohammad Saifuddin | 8 | 9 | 17 | 1 | 0 | 88.88 | ||
Najibullah Zadran | not out | 43 | 17 | 25 | 1 | 6 | 252.94 | ||
Extras | (lb 1, w 3) | 4 | |||||||
TOTAL | 18.3 Overs (RR: 7.08) | 131/3 | | ||||||
Did not bat: Karim Janat, Rashid Khan, Azmatullah Omarzai, Naveen-ul-Haq, Mujeeb Ur Rahman, Fazalhaq Farooqi | |||||||||
Fall of wickets: 1-15 (Rahmanullah Gurbaz, 4.1 ov), 2-45 (Hazratullah Zazai, 9.2 ov), 3-62 (Mohammad Nabi, 12.6 ov) |
BOWLING | O | M | R | W | ECON | 0s | 4s | 6s | WD | NB |
---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
Shakib Al Hasan | 4 | 0 | 13 | 1 | 3.25 | 12 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
Mustafizur Rahman | 3 | 0 | 30 | 0 | 10.00 | 6 | 2 | 2 | 2 | 0 |
Mahedi Hasan | 4 | 0 | 26 | 0 | 6.50 | 11 | 2 | 1 | 0 | 0 |
Taskin Ahmed | 3 | 0 | 22 | 0 | 7.33 | 9 | 4 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
Mosaddek Hossain | 2.3 | 0 | 12 | 1 | 4.80 | 8 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 |
Mohammad Saifuddin | 2 | 0 | 27 | 1 | 13.50 | 3 | 2 | 2 | 1 | 0 |
You can see the Asia Cup 2022 Schedule, that had been officially announced on 2 Aug 2022.
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