2 interesting encounters coming up people. We have Afghanistan and Bangladesh duking it out and it's tough to tell who will win among them since they seem evenly matched, but my bet is on Bangladesh.
Afghanistan team's batting line is very weak due to which they were not ready to score enough runs against Bangladesh as well. But Afghanistan team's bowling line is quite strong as Bangladesh team lost two wickets in power play against Afghanistan. Therefore, if the Bangladesh team's patience is increasing at present, Nazmul Islam Shantar. The current pair of Mehdi Hasan Miraj and Nazmul Hasan Shanto depend on the Bangladesh team's run collection.
Bangladesh won the toss and decided to bowl first that a good decision. They all Out Afghanistan is just 157 runs in 37.2 Overs. Bangladesh bowlers bowling performance is outstanding especially Shakib ul hassan who picked 3 Important wicktes by giving 30 runs in 8 overs and Muhammad Hassan also picked 3 wickets by giving 25 runs only in 9 overs. From Afghanistan Rahmanullah Gurbaz is only batter who scored 47 runs and helped his team to cross 150 runs plus. The Current score of Bangladesh is 62 in loss of 2 wickets in 13.2 overs. Bangladesh Need 88 runs in 36 overs to win this match.
Bangladesh announced the XI today with eight batsmen and five bowlers. Bangladesh had Mahmudullah Riyad as the sixth bowling option who is not a professional bowler. If for some reason any bowler among the five bowlers was bad or if the Afghanistan batsmen were set on the wicket, then the sixth bowling option would have been very necessary for Bangladesh.
The performance of the Bangladeshi bowlers was excellent today. I won't mention names but everyone did very well. Those who watched the game from the beginning to the end must have seen the captaincy technique of Shakib Al Hasan.
Shakib Al Hasan is a smart captain and he proved it in this match and we have seen his great captaincy in the previous few matches as well.
Shakib Al Hasan as the captain will get as much praise as the batsmen and bowlers in this match.