Bangladesh's won is due to AFIF MIRAZ
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He has to roar like a tiger. After losing 6 wickets for just 45 runs, fighting like a hero with the bat and giving the team an incredible victory of 4 wickets, such excitement only suits them.
5 wickets for 28 runs, 6 wickets for 45 runs. Tamim, Liton, Mushfiqur, Yasir Rabbi, Shakib Al Hasan and Mahmudullah Riyad returned one by one. The full strength of Bangladesh's batting is almost gone. There was a fear, how few runs Bangladesh ended!
The war of nerves was created in the minds of the supporters of Bangladesh. Fearing defeat, some people stopped watching the game. Will have to lose to Afghanistan at home!
But the heroism shown by two young men, Mehdi Hasan Miraj and Afif Hossain Dhruv, is unbelievable. Playing together in the BPL Chittagong Challengers, the two have created such an understanding between themselves, from there they took the Bangladesh team to the port of victory.
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Mehdi Hasan Miraj and Afif Hossain Dhruv fought hard against the 215-run ruin of the Afghans. Bangladesh won the match 6 balls earlier with a record pairing of 174 runs.
Bangladesh got off to a good start in the three-match series with a 4-wicket win at the Zahur Ahmed Chowdhury Stadium in Chittagong. Also got full 10 points in World Cup Super League. Now Bangladesh is at number two with 90 points in 13 matches. England's collection at the top is 95 points.
Tamim Iqbal got off to a positive start by hitting a boundary off the last two balls of the first over by Fazal Haque Farooqi after batting for 218 runs. The 21-year-old pacer turned around in his next over. Liton Das (7) was caught behind the third ball of that over.
Senior opener Tamim Iqbal (1) fell into the trap of leg before the last ball. The umpire did not point a finger at either of the two wickets. However, the Afghans took wickets with two reviews. Lytton hit the inside edge of the bat as he pitched lightly into the middle stump. The ball in the line of the stamp from about the same length hit Tamim's pad.
Experienced batsman Mushfiqur Rahim (3) returned to the dressing room after losing two openers. He could not play with the delivery bat pitched at Farooqi's good length. The ball hits the pad. The umpire ruled out. Mushfiqur could not save his wicket even with the review, on the contrary a review is lost.
In the last over of the same over, Yasir Ali Rabbi (0) became bold when the gap of the bat-pad melted. It was on this ground that Yasir was bowled in a similar manner in his Test debut. Bangladesh lost 4 wickets for only 16 runs. Shakib Al Hasan and Mahmudullah Riyadh are in charge. But Shakib was disappointed.
Shakib was bowled in the fourth ball of the eighth over by Mujib Ur Rahman. Shakib, who scored 10 off 15 balls, was plagiarized while cutting the ball outside the offstump. In his farewell power play, 5 wickets fell. In the first ten overs, Bangladesh scored 39 runs for 5 wickets.
Of course, this is not a record. Afghanistan has a record of losing the most 6 wickets in a power play. They lost 6 wickets in 10 overs after chasing just 16 runs against Zimbabwe in January 2016. The Afghans were all out for 58 runs that day.
But this is a record for Bangladesh. Earlier in 2012, they lost 5 wickets for just 13 runs in six overs against West Indies. Today 5 wickets fell for 26 runs in 8 overs. Mahmudullah Riyad (6) also returned to the dressing room after the team scored 45 runs in the 12th over of the innings.
However, Mehdi Miraj and Afif Hossain Dhruv believed. These two youngsters used to play together against Rashid Khan, Mujib Ur Rahman and Mohammad Nabi. Without taking any risk, without trying anything extra, these two youngsters continue to move ball by ball.
And that is the success. After celebrating Mahmudullah's wicket in the 12th over of the innings, Afghanistan did not get a happy occasion. Miraj and Afif delighted the four thousand spectators present in Ulto Sagarika. They have run around the wicket.
However, Miraj, who is on non-strike, has just thrown his hands in the air to celebrate the victory. He remained unbeaten on 63 off 120 balls. And 93 runs from 115 balls came from Afif's bat. Miraj has been named Man of the Match for his stingy bowling with batting