Pakistan, on Thursday (September 25), beat Bangladesh by 11 runs to ebook a spot within the remaining of the continued Asia Cup 2025. In a low-scoring match on the Dubai Worldwide Cricket Stadium, the Males in Inexperienced defended 135 runs to arrange a mouthwatering conflict in opposition to India within the title-decider.
The Males in Inexperienced got here up with yet one more poor batting efficiency, however made amends for it with a wonderful bowling show. Batting first, Pakistan might solely rating a modest complete of 135/8 within the allotted 20 overs. They had been off to a poor begin as in-form Sahibzada Farhan and Saim Ayub departed inside the primary two overs.
Pakistan attain Asia Cup remaining
Pakistan stored dropping wickets at common intervals and had been reeling at 49/5 within the eleventh over. Even the 100-run mark seemed like a distant dream at one stage, however essential contributions from the likes of Mohammad Haris (31), Shaheen Afridi (19), Mohammad Nawaz (25), and Faheem Ashraf (14*) guided them to a decent 130-plus complete.
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In reply, Bangladesh completed their innings on 124/9. Identical to Pakistan, Bangladesh additionally stored dropping wickets at common intervals and by no means actually seemed in rivalry to chase down the whole. Even earlier than the top of the facility play, they misplaced three wickets, together with that of in-form Saif Hassan, and simply couldn’t recuperate after these early setbacks.
Shamim Hossain was the one Bangladesh batter to attain greater than 20 runs as he scored 30. Nonetheless, he obtained little help from the opposite finish as Bangladesh missed out on an excellent alternative to qualify for the Asia Cup remaining for the primary time since 2018.
Comedy of errors as Bangladesh star survives run-out scare
The Tremendous 4s conflict between the two Asian Giants witnessed a weird second when two batsmen ended up on the identical finish however survived the run-out. The incident came about within the fifth over of Bangladesh’s innings when Shaheen Afridi was bowling to Towhid Hridoy.
On the primary ball of the over, Afridi bowled one outdoors the off stump, and Hridoy reduce it exhausting in the direction of backward level, the place Saim Ayub got here up with a superb diving effort to cease the ball.
Within the meantime, Saif Hassan anticipated that the ball would simply go previous Ayub and set off for a single.
Even earlier than he might realise something, he was standing beside Hridoy on the striker’s finish. Ayub rapidly bought up and threw the ball on the non-striker’s finish, however there was no fielding backing up. Consequently, Hassan bought the chance to return contained in the crease safely.
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Each batters on the identical finish however nonetheless survive 😲
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