Pakistan vs Bangladesh: The Super-4 round of Asia Cup 2023 started in a very spectacular way. In this match being played between Pakistan and Bangladesh team, Bangladesh team won the toss and decided to bat first. However, this decision of Captain Shakib did not seem to do any special work for the team. The reason for which is that in this match, Pakistan’s fast bowlers made such a brilliant start against the Bangladesh team, which broke the back of the opposing team.
Pakistan’s fast bowler Naseem Shah got opener Mehdi Hasan Miraz caught by Fakhar Zaman on the first ball of the second over of this innings at the score of zero and along with this, Pakistan team also got a big success.
Liton Das came to the crease after Mehdi’s dismissal, who scored all the runs in his innings of 16 in 13 balls with fours, but in the meantime, Das could not time Shaheen Afridi’s ball properly and was caught by Rizwan. Got out and lost the second wicket on the score of 31 runs. After Naseem and Shaheen, Haris Rauf wreaked havoc against Bangladesh by taking two more wickets within 2 runs and pushed the Bangladesh team completely on the backfoot. Where Mohammad Naeem scored 20 runs, Tauheed Hridayoy got out after scoring 2 runs.
The way the trio of Pakistan’s fast bowlers uprooted four wickets for 47 runs of Bangladesh. Looking at him, it seemed that Bangladesh would be reduced to 130-150 runs in this match, but in the meantime, the most experienced batsmen of the team, Shakib Al Hasan and Mushfiqur Rahim, who came to play on the ground, handled the innings of Bangladesh and slowed down the score. Moving forward slowly, first crossed 100 runs and then after changing gears, started hitting some great shots as well. Due to which Bangladesh was able to emerge from the faltering innings. There was an important partnership of 100 runs between these two players.
When Shakib was playing on the score of 53 runs, Faheem Ashraf dismissed him. After which Bangladesh once again came into trouble. Although Rahim kept on standing on the field in the meanwhile, but Bangladesh’s wickets kept falling continuously from the other end. After which Rahim became the victim of Haris Rauf on a score of 64 runs and Rahim’s dismissal, the last batsman of Bangladesh could not contribute much. The result of which was that Bangladesh could not play full 50 overs in the first innings and the team’s innings was limited to 193 runs.
