Afghanistan Cricket Team
Afghanistan defeated Bangladesh by 92 runs in the first ODI. In this match, young bowler Allah Ghazanfar bowled amazingly for Afghanistan and it is because of him that the Afghan team was successful in winning the match. Batting first, Afghanistan scored 235 runs. After this Bangladesh had scored 120 runs at the loss of 2 wickets. In such a situation, everyone expected that the Bangladeshi team would easily win this match, but it could not happen and the team lost the next 8 wickets at just 23. Allah Ghazanfar stood between Bangladesh and victory.
Ghazanfar took 6 wickets
Bangladesh team had a very bad start. When Tanjeed Hasan returned to the pavilion after scoring just 3 runs. After this, Soumya Sarkar (33 runs) and Nazmul Hasan Shanto (47 runs) did excellent batting. But as soon as these two players were out, Bangladesh’s batting disintegrated. Then Allah Ghazanfar did magic with his balls and took 6 wickets for just 26 runs in 6.3 overs. Apart from him, Rashid Khan took two wickets. One wicket each went to the account of Mohammad Nabi and Azmatullah Omarzai. Because of these players, the entire Bangladeshi team was all out for just 143 runs and could not even play the full 50 overs. Ghazanfar has become the third youngest player to take 6 wicket haul in ODI cricket. His age now is 18 years 231 days. So far he has taken 10 wickets in 6 ODI matches for Afghanistan.
Youngest players to take 6 wicket haul in ODI cricket:
Waqar Younis- 18 years 164 days
Rashid Khan- 18 years 178 days
Allah Ghazanfar- 18 years 231 days
Mohammad Nabi played an excellent innings
Hashmatullah Shahidi (52 runs) and Mohammad Nabi (84 runs) scored excellent half-centuries for Afghanistan. It is because of these players that the Afghan team was successful in reaching a respectable score. Apart from them, Gulbadin Naib scored 22 runs and Sadiqullah Atal scored 21 runs. It was because of the short innings of these players that the Afghan team scored 235 runs. Mustafizur Rahman and Taskin Ahmed took 4 wickets each. But both these players proved to be very expensive. Mustafizur Rahman conceded 58 runs and Taskin conceded 53 runs.
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