Afghanistan’s unilateral victory. (Photo-PTI)
A three-match ODI series between Afghanistan and Bangladesh is being played in the United Arab Emirates. The first match of the series was played at the Sharjah Cricket Stadium. This match was quite historic, in fact it was the 300th international match at this ground in Sharjah. Afghanistan won this match and started the series with a victory. The hero of the victory in this match for Afghanistan was an 18-year-old player. This young bowler further destroyed the Bangladesh team like a house of cards.
Afghanistan’s unilateral victory
Afghanistan captain Hashmatullah Shahidi won the toss in this match and decided to bat first. But the Afghanistan team could not play even 50 overs. The entire Afghanistan team was reduced to just 235 runs in 49.4 overs. During this time, four batsmen of the team returned to the pavilion with just 35 runs, but captain Hashmatullah Shahidi and veteran player Mohammad Nabi saw incredible innings. Hashmatullah Shahidi contributed 52 runs. While Mohammad Nabi scored the maximum of 84 runs.
Mohammad Nabi played this innings facing 79 balls. During this period, his strike rate was 106.32, which included 4 fours and 3 sixes. Apart from these two players, no batsman could touch the 30-run mark. Whereas, for Bangladesh, Taskin Ahmed and Mustafizur Rahman took a maximum of 4-4 wickets.
Allah Ghazanfar Magic Bowling
Bangladesh team was targeting only 236 runs to win this match. But no Bangladesh batsman could stay in the crease for long against the young bowler Allah Ghazanfar, so the entire Bangladesh team collapsed after scoring 143 runs in 34.3 overs. During this, Allah Ghazanfar made 6 batsmen his victims by giving away 26 runs in just 6.3 overs. Apart from this, Rashid Khan scored 2 hits. Mohammad Nabi and Azmatullah Umarzai also managed to take 1 wicket each. Please tell me. The Afghanistan team is performing very well at the moment. They also recently defeated South Africa 2-1 in the ODI series. Let us tell you that Bangladesh team was in a very good position at some point. He had scored 120 runs with the loss of 2 wickets. But after this she could only add 23 runs and was eliminated.
