Asia Cup: Afghanistan made a big blow to Bangladesh, made it to Super-4

Afghanistan once again performed brilliantly and achieved their second consecutive win in the Asia Cup-2022 on Tuesday. Afghanistan defeated Bangladesh by seven wickets in the T20 match played at the Dubai International Stadium. Bangladesh won the toss and decided to bat first, but Rashid Khan And in front of Mujeeb ur Rahman’s spin, she could not score big. After playing the entire over, Bangladesh’s team could only score 127 runs for the loss of seven wickets. Afghanistan achieved this target in 18.3 overs for the loss of three wickets.

Earlier, he had defeated Sri Lanka in the first match of this tournament. They have become the first team from their group to reach the Super-4. However, the target of 128 runs was not easy for Afghanistan. He had to struggle a bit. But the stormy innings of Najibullah Zadran and Ibrahim Zadran gave Afghanistan victory.

Shakib gave a blow

Bangladesh’s captain Shakib, the highest wicket-taker in T20 Internationals, stumped Afghanistan’s stormy batsman Rahmanullah Gurbaz at the hands of Mushfiqur Rahim on the first ball of the fifth over. After this Mosaddek Hossain showed the way to the pavilion to the second opener Hazratullah Jazai. Gurbaz scored 11 and Jajai scored 23 runs.

two jadran prevailed

After the fall of two wickets for 45 runs, the pressure came on the Afghanistan team. This pressure was further increased when captain Mohammad Nabi was dismissed after scoring eight runs. His wicket fell on the total score of 62. After this Najibullah Zadran and Ibrahim Zadran scored fiercely against the Bangladesh bowlers. Sharing a partnership of 69 runs, both of them crossed the threshold of victory for Afghanistan. Ibrahim scored an unbeaten 42 off 41 balls for the loss of four wickets. In this innings, he hit four fours. Najibullah played a quick innings and scored 43 not out off 17 balls. In his innings, this batsman hit six sixes and hit one four. During this his strike rate was 252.94.

Bangladeshi batsman trapped in spin

The spin duo of Mujeeb Ur Rahman and Rashid Khan troubled Bangladesh. Mujeeb destroyed the order over Bangladesh. Mujeeb 16 while Rashid took three wickets for 22 runs. Hossain (48 not out, 31 balls, four fours, one six) played a career-best innings while Mahamudullah (25) made useful contributions to take Bangladesh to a challenging score. Both of them also shared a 36-run partnership for the sixth wicket. Electing to bat after winning the toss, Bangladesh lost the wickets of both openers Mohammad Naeem (06) and Anamul Haque (05) for 13 runs in the fourth over. After off-spinner Mujeeb bowled Naeem on the carrom ball, Anamul was lbw. Captain Shakib Al Hasan (11) hit two consecutive fours on Naveen-ul-Haq but Mujeeb also bowled him in the next over. Bangladesh’s team could only score 28 runs for three wickets in the power play.

Rashid tackles the middle order

Star leg-spinner Rashid gave Bangladesh the fourth blow by lbw the experienced Mushfiqur Rahim (01) off his second ball. Afif Hossain (12) and Mahamudullah took over the innings. Both took the team’s score to 50 runs for four wickets in 10 overs, but during this innings only four fours were hit. Rashid broke this partnership of 25 runs by LBW to Afif. Mossadek hit Afghanistan captain Mohammad Nabi for the first six of the innings. However, he was lucky as Ajmatullah Umarzai took his catch and bounced the ball towards Rashid but his foot touched the boundary.

Mahamudullah along with Mosaddek took the team’s score beyond 100 runs. Rashid to Mahamudullah Ibrahim Zadran Ended this partnership by getting caught in the hands of. Mosaddek took the team’s score beyond 100 runs in the 17th over with a four on Fazlak Farooqui. Mossadek had a chance to complete the first half-century of his career in the last over of the innings, but he could only score two runs after playing two balls.