Afghanistan became the first team to reach Super-4
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- Afghanistan beat Bangladesh by 7 wickets
- Afghanistan became the first team to reach Super-4
- Najibullah Zadran scored 43 not out of 17 balls.
Asia Cup 2022, AFG vs BAN: Afghanistan continued their impressive performance at the 2022 Asian Cup, beating Bangladesh by 7 wickets in their second league game. In the first match, the Afghan team also defeated Sri Lanka by 8 wickets. With this victory, Afghanistan has also become the first team to reach Super-4. In Group B, Afghanistan will continue to top the points table with two wins. At the same time, the name of the second team will be decided from the match between Bangladesh and Sri Lanka.
Speaking of this match, the Afghanistan bowlers once again performed brilliantly today. The Bangladeshi batsmen got caught in the turn of Mujeeb ur Rahman and Rashid Khan and could only score 127 runs from 7 wickets in the stipulated 20 overs. Musaddak Hossain remained undefeated in 48 for Bangladesh. Bangladesh captain Shakib Al Hasan won the toss and chose to bat and Bangladesh got off to a poor start. The team lost the first four wickets by 28 runs.
After this Mahmudullah (25) and Afif Hossain (12) managed the innings to some extent and brought the score to 50. Rashid Khan also broke this association and then Musadk came to the crease. He added 36 runs for sixth wicket with Mahmudullah. But Rashid did not stay here and also sent Mahmudullah to the pavilion, whom he saw on the set. In the end, Mehndi Hassan scored 14 runs and ran out. Musadt Hossain was not left out after scoring 48 runs from 31 balls.
The pair of ‘Zadran’ did wonders
Chasing a target of 128 runs, Afghanistan started smoothly, starter Rahmanullah Gurbaz becoming a victim of Shakib after scoring 11 runs in a total of 15 runs. After this, captain Mohammad Nabi (8) and second starter Hazratullah Zazai (23) also returned to the arena. Then Ibrahim Zadran and Najibullah Zadran took the lead and batted vigorously, giving Afghanistan the victory in 18.3 overs. Ibrahim made an unbeaten 42 in 41 balls and Najibullah posted an unbeaten 43 in 17 balls (1 four and 6 sixes) to lead the team to the Super-4.