Pakistan Beat Bangladesh in 1st ODI of Bilateral Series

Bangladesh was scheduled to play a 5 Match one day International series in Pakistan. Bangladesh have been playing good cricket and it will be interesting to see these 2 teams battle it out in the bilateral series.

1^st Match of the One Day international series was to be played on Gaddafi Stadium, Lahore, Pakistan on 8th April. Pakistan won the toss and opts to bat first, so this means Bangladesh will bowl first.

This is how Pakistan team and 11 was looking like in this 1^st Match of the One Day international series: Shoaib Malik (c), Mohammad Yousuf, Kamran Akmal (wk), Younis Khan, Shahid Afridi, Salman Butt, Misbah-ul-Haq, Iftikhar Anjum, Umar Gul, Sohail Tanvir, Nasir Jamshed

And Bangladesh team and 11 was looking like this in this 1^st Match of the One Day international series: Mohammad Ashraful (c), Abdur Razzak, Aftab Ahmed, Mashrafe Mortaza, Shahriar Nafees, Farhad Reza, Shakib Al Hasan, Tamim Iqbal, Dhiman Ghosh (wk), Mahmudullah, Raqibul Hasan

Pakistan batted very well and was able to score total of 322 runs in allotted 50 over’s at the loss of only 5 wickets and with the contributions of M yusuf who made 108 runs in 103 balls with 11 4’s an d1 six at the  strike rate of 105 runs in 100 balls, Skipper S Malik who made 85 runs in 75 balls with 7 4’s and 1 six at the strike rate of 113 runs in 100 balls and Misbah Ul haq who made 38 runs in 27 balls with 1 four and 2 sixes at the strike rate of 141 runs in 100 balls.

Bangladesh was needed to score 323 runs in 50 over’s to won the match.

Bangladesh batted poorly and was bowled out for only 129 runs in 30 over’s and with the contributions of M Mortaza who made 25 runs in 20 balls with 3 4’s and 1 six at the strike rate of 125 runs in 100 ablls and S Nafees made 24 runs in 24 balls with 2 4’s and 1 six at the strike rate of 100 runs in 100 ablls.

Pakistan won the match and M Yusuf was the Man of the match for great batting.

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