Bangladesh Beaten by Afghanistan in 2nd ODI of series, 2016

Afghanistan was scheduled to play a 3 Match ONE DAY International Series in Bangladesh in 2016. Both teams have great players and all rounder’s and match winners and it would be interesting to see them battle in this series. The 2nd ONE DAY international match was to be played on Shere Bangla National Stadium, Dhaka, Bangladesh on 28^th Sep, 2015. Bangladesh leads the series already 1-0.

Afghanistan won the toss and opts to bowl first; this is how Bangladesh team and 11 was looking like in this 2nd ONE DAY international match: Mashrafe Mortaza (c), Mushfiqur Rahim (wk), Shakib Al Hasan, Tamim Iqbal, Mahmudullah Riad, Mosharraf Hossain, Imrul Kayes, Shafiul Islam, Sabbir Rahman, Mosaddek Hossain Saikat, Taskin Ahmed

And Afghanistan team and 11 was looking like this in this 2nd ONE DAY international Match: Asghar Stanikzai (c), Mohammad Nabi, Mirwais Ashraf, Mohammad Shahzad (wk), Shabir Noori, Dawlat Zadran, Hashmatullah Shahidi, Najibullah Zadran, Rahmat Shah, Rashid Khan, Naveen ul Haq

Bangladesh did not batted very well and was able to post total of only 208 runs in 49.2 over’s at the loss of 10 wickets and with top scores of M H Saikat who made unbeaten 45 runs in 45 balls with 4 4’s and 2 six at the strike rate of 100 runs in 100 balls and M Rahim who made 38 runs in 51 balls with 4 4’s and 0 six at the strike rate of 74 runs in 100 balls.

Afghanistan was needed to score 209 runs in 50 over’s to win this match and to take level this 3 ONE DAY match International series 1-1.

Afghanistan batted very well and was able to chase the total of 209 runs in 49.4 over’s at the loss of 8 wickets and with top scores by Asghar S who made 57 runs in 95 balls with 4 4’s and 2 six at the strike rate of 60 runs in 100 balls.

Afghanistan won the match by 2 wickets and levels the 3 match ODI series 1-1 with 1 more games still to play in this series.

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