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Quote from: GigaBit on July 22, 2025, 10:40:06 PM

Bangladesh won the match but the margin was small. Bangladesh was losing wickets from the start but in between Jaker Ali and Mahedi Hasan both played relatively big innings due to which it was possible to make the total score 134. Later, when Pakistan came to bat, they also started losing wickets in the same way. Although Faheem Ashraf scored a half-century, others did not contribute much due to which Pakistan had to lose the match by a few runs. If they had wickets, then it would not have been difficult to win this match because the score was small but Pakistan's weakness was that they could not keep wickets.

That cricket match was real close call where both teams struggled to score runs. Bangladesh started poorly but Jaker Ali and Mahedi Hasan played key innings helping them reach 133. Pakistan then also lost wickets quickly and even though Faheem Ashraf scored great half century others did not help enough. Pakistan lost by small margin because they could not keep enough wickets showing how important it is to have batsmen staying in game especially when chasing small total.

I thought Pakistan would win the second match as they started well and were able to put Bangladesh batsmen under pressure with controlled bowling from the start. The top order batsmen did not score much and there were fears that they might lose all their wickets in a very short span of time but Jaker Ali made 55 off 48 balls and Mahedi Hasan made 33 off 25 balls to take the team to 133. While this was not a big score for the match, the Pakistan batsmen failed miserably and four batsmen were dismissed for 0 runs in the match. And three batsmen could not cross single digit runs. This was a match that should have been won for Pakistan and Khushdil Shah fought hard for the win but they lost by a very small margin.