Rahul Tiwari
khelja|07-11-2024
A three-match ODI series is being played between Afghanistan and Bangladesh in UAE. The first match of the series was played at Sharjah Cricket Stadium. This match was quite historic, in fact, it was the 300th international match on this ground in Sharjah. Afghanistan won this match and started the series with a win. The hero of 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 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 had returned to the pavilion on the score of just 35 runs. But amazing innings were seen from captain Hashmatullah Shahidi and veteran player Mohammad Nabi. Hashmatullah Shahidi contributed 52 runs. Whereas, Mohammad Nabi scored the maximum 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 maximum 4-4 wickets.
Bangladesh team had got the target of only 236 runs to win this match. But no Bangladesh batsman could stay on the crease for long in front of the young bowler Allah Ghazanfar, due to which 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 got 2 successes. Mohammad Nabi and Azmatullah Umarzai also managed to take 1 wicket each. Please tell. The Afghanistan team is currently performing very well. Recently it also defeated South Africa 2-1 in the ODI series. Let us tell you, Bangladesh team was in a very good position at one time. He had scored 120 runs at the loss of 2 wickets. But after this she could add only 23 runs and was all out.