Bangladesh Beat Afghanistan in 1st 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 1st ONE DAY international match was to be played on Shere Bangla National Stadium, Dhaka, Bangladesh on 25^th Sep, 2015.

Bangladesh won the toss and opts to bat first; this is how Bangladesh team and 11 was looking like in this 1^st 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 1st 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 batted very well and was able to post total of 265 runs in 50 over’s at the loss of 10 wickets and with top scores of T Iqbal who made 80 runs in 98 balls with 9 4’s and 0 six at the strike rate of 82 runs in 100 balls and M Riad who made 62 runs in 74 balls with 5 4’s and 2 six at the strike rate of 84 runs in 100 balls.

Afghanistan was needed to score 266 runs in 50 over’s to win this match and to take lead in this 3 ONE DAY match International series 1-0.

Afghanistan batted very well and was unable to chase the total of 266 runs and was able to make only 258 runs in 50 over’s at the loss of 10 wickets and with top scores by h Shahidi who made 72 runs in 110 balls with 6 4’s and 0 six at the strike rate of 65 runs in 100 balls.

Bangladesh won the match by 7 runs and takes lead of 1-0 in this 3 match ODI series with 2 more games still to play in it.

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