Bangladesh’s easy win over Afghanistan by six wickets in Dharamshala,

Bangladesh’s easy win over Afghanistan by six wickets in Dharamshala,

Afghanistan batsmen trapped in Bangladesh’s spin, target of 157 runs completed in 34th over

Dharamshala, 07 October (Arvind Sharma)

In today’s  ICC ODI World Cup match at HPCA Stadium in Dharamshala

Bangladesh defeated Afghanistan and started their World Cup journey with a win.

 Bangladesh while Chasing the small score of 156 runs put up by  Afghanistan registered a spectacular victory by six wickets. Afghanistan faced this  defeat due to Bangladesh’s all-round performance in this match.

In ICC ODI World cup match in Dharamsala on Saturday ,Bangladesh won the toss and  took the decision of fielding first which was absolutely correct as

Afghanistan’s batsmen could not do anything special in front of the brilliant spin  bowling of Bangladesh and the  entire Afghani team was  out on the low score of 156 runs in just 37.2 overs.

Chasing the target, Bangladesh team finished the task in  34th over by  losing just four wickets. Although Bangladesh’s opening was not good and

Both the openers returned to the pavilion in the early stage of the inning  but later Bangladesi batsman  Mehdi Hasan and Nazim ul Hossain Shanto sealed the victory by scoring half centuries.Shanto scored 59 not out.

Fazhalaq Farooqui, Naveen ul Haq and Azmatullah claimed  one wicket each.

Afghanistan opener Rahmanullah Gurbaz contributed the maximum of 47 runs. Whereas the other opener Ibrahim Zadran scored 22, Azmatullah scored 22, captain Hashmatullah Shahidi and Rahmat Shah scored 18 each, Najibullah Zadran scored just five runs.

captain Shaki Al Hasan and Mehdi Hasan of  Bangladesh  took three wickets each.