Pulled straight to deep mid-wicket It was into the pitch just wide of off, he pulled it and got a decent hit but not enough to clear the fielder who took it over his left shoulder without having to move much
Bangladesh vs Afghanistan, 1st T20I at Dhaka, BAN v AFG, Mar 03 2022 - Ball by Ball Commentary
This was the third highest win for Bangladesh in T20Is in terms of runs. They looked a confident side and did not let Afghanistan get away with big powerplay runs. The visitors have a couple of days to review their performance and make amends. You can catch all the action here on ESPNcricinfo. For now, this is Ekanth, signing off on behalf of Himanshu Agrawal, my fellow commentator and K Vairavan, our scorer. Cheers.
Mahmudullah, Bangladesh Captain: Pleasing to see how the boys fought in the middle with the bat, ball. The energy was good too. We thought the total was defendable. Nasum bowled really well, it was a match-changing spell. Litton was superb with the bat, once he gets going it's eye-pleasing. We are happy to win against Afghanistan, who have a good T20 side. But we can't sit back after one win and will look to do it again in the next game.
Nasum Ahmed is the Player of the Match for his 4-0-10-4 - Says his plan was to restrict the runs, pile on the pressure, and take early wickets which came off.
Mohammad Nabi, Afghanistan Captain: The boys bowled really well and restricted them to 150. We thought we could chase it but threw away our wickets in the powerplay which cost us the game. We will try our best in the next game to fight back.
6:16 pm The 50-50 game turned into a one-sider after Nasum took four in the powerplay. The batters taking him on gifted him wickets and the odd missed opportunity or two did not matter as the wickets bogged down the innings. Shakib broke the steady partnership between Nabi and Zadran, brought up his 400th LOI wicket. The procession then continued to the end as the visitors could not get to the three-figure mark.
Sajid: "Very colorful last over!!"
Tasmeem: "One thing is in subcontinent, finger spin rules. The pitches generally aid spin, so traditional spinners do better in all competitions. Teams look for control, which maximum leg spinners fail to provide. So, people tend to want to be the sort of bowlers that get to play, without trying to bring about the change themselves."
Length on the body, pulls it through mid-wicket and enjoys the boundary
Skied to the bowler It was slow on a back of a good length, he made room and tried to slog it over mid-wicket. It took the top-edge to the bowler's right. He had time to take it comfortably
Length outside off, freed his arms and smacked it. Came off the bottom of the bat but beat mid-off to his right along the ground
Around the wicket
Ahasan: "@tinura, most of the pitches in bd is slow and turing, so even finger spinners are pretty hard to play. So teams don't take risk on wrist spinners, because they sometime leak runs. So they never get the opportunity and hence could not come to next stage"
Stays clear of the line and tries to cream it over cover but it's a bit too far and goes through fourth stump to the keeper's gloves
Length outside off goes away with the angle and beats the cut
Length on the stumps, gets across and sweeps it from knee-high to deep backward square
Sliced to cover It was slow, on a good length around middle. Omarzai gave himself room and tried to slog it over long off but holes out to Mahmudullah
Slow, low full toss around off. It had drift and the batter flicks it to deep square. They look for the second but decide against it
Slower yorker outside off, jammed out to the left of the bowler
Over the wicket
Tinura: "Unlike most other T20 teams, why don't Bangladesh have a wrist spinner?" Theories, anyone?
Pacy good length ball just outside off, beats the bat as he tried to slice it behind point
Around the wicket
Slow, ball at around the 6m mark on the pitch. He stayed back, waited for it, and smacked it over mid-wicket
Bouncer at head height beats the pull but was going down leg. Wide given
Length across the right hander over the off stump. Swung hard with one leg out and missed by Omarzai
Cutter into the pitch on the stumps. The batter makes room and swats it front of square through the gap
MD ALTAF HOSSAI: "Actually Bangladesh is coming back where Bangladesh should be. There is nothing extraordinary"
Length around the waist, pulled in front of square to the man in the deep
Back of a good length ball goes across the right hander and beats the prodding bat
Over the wicket
Tosses up a full ball outsise off. Omarzai let his hands go through with the swipe. The ball rolls to the long-off fence at pace
Good length around fourth. It was close to cut but he does it with reasonable control to cover
Slow, back of a good length ball outside off. Cut to deep point
Over 18 • AFG 94/10