In the Asia Cup 2023 tournament, the second match of the tournament is being played today between Sri Lanka and Bangladesh. In this match, Bangladesh team won the toss and decided to bat first. However, this decision proved to be very heavy for the team. The reason for this is that the Bangladesh team was seen under a lot of pressure from the very beginning in this match and due to this pressure, the team could not even play the entire 50 overs and the entire team collapsed for 164 runs. Najmul Hussain Shanto scored the highest 89 runs from the team. Apart from him, no player could cross the 20-run mark. The team’s experienced batsmen Shakib Al Hasan and Mushfiqur Rahim also looked helpless in front of Sri Lanka’s excellent bowling. All the players lost wickets by playing bad shots, looking at it it did not seem that Bangladesh had come to play fully prepared for this tournament.
Bangladesh team disappointed the fans with its poor batting. Both the opening batsmen of Bangladesh team, Mohammad Naim for 16 runs and Tanjid Hasan returned to the pavilion without opening the account. After the opening failure, the team’s most experienced player and captain Shakib Al Hasan came on the field to play, then Sri Lankan captain Dasun Shanaka showed wisdom and handed the ball to his team’s most dangerous bowler Mathisha Pathirana. Mathisha Pathirana, who played for the CSK team in the IPL, lived up to the expectations of his captain and got Shakib caught out by wicketkeeper Kusal Mendis in his very first over. After Shakib’s dismissal, Bangladesh’s innings has completely faltered.
After the fall of Shakib’s wicket, there was silence in the Bangladesh camp, while a wave of happiness ran in the Sri Lankan team. Seeing the way Mathisha Pathirana, popularly known as Baby Malinga, bowled his first over, it seemed as if Lasith Malinga was playing on the field for the Sri Lankan team today. After Shakib was out, Harido came on the field and he too was out after scoring 20 runs. Bangladesh team lost its 4 important wickets within 130 runs. After this, Mushfiqur Rahim, the most experienced and best player of the Bangladesh team, came to bat, who managed the Bangladesh innings a bit by making a partnership of 32 runs with Nazmul Hussain Shanto, but during this time something happened, which showed Rahim’s long years of experience and tore away the pieces of respect.
In the 31st over of the first match of this match, when Mathisha Pathirana was bowling, Rahim, standing on strike on the second ball of this over of Pathirana, wanted to play the shot, due to which the ball hit the edge of his bat and went into the hands of the wicketkeeper, After which the Sri Lankan bowler and wicketkeeper made a big appeal, but it was declared not out by the umpire. Seeing this, Sri Lankan players Pathirana and Sanaka were completely surprised.
After this, when it was seen in the replay through Speed Fox camera, it was clearly seen that Rahim’s bat had completely touched the ball, despite that, Rahim did not show sportsmanship and remained on the field and also got himself out. Didn’t agree.
Rahim was very happy that he had survived even after getting out and he could now play a big innings, but Pathirana, popularly known as Baby Malinga, dismissed Rahim in his very next over. Rahim scored only 13 runs in this match playing 22 balls. After Rahim was out, Nazmul Hussain Shanto was also out on the score of 89 runs. After which Bangladesh team lost its last 2 remaining wickets within 2 runs.
