Shoriful Islam’s blistering spell units up Bangladesh’s comfort win
Bangladesh 129 for 3 (Litton 53*, Shakib 39, Farooqi 2-26) beat Afghanistan 126 (Omarzai 56, Shoriful 4-21, Taskin 2-23) by seven wickets
Shoriful Islam‘s career-best figures of 4 for 21 fired Bangladesh to a seven-wicket comfort win within the third ODI in Chattogram. Taskin Ahmed and Taijul Islam had been the assist act, taking two wickets every, whereas Shakib Al Hasan was at his miserly greatest, taking 1 for 13 from his ten overs to maintain Afghanistan to 126 – their lowest whole towards Bangladesh.
Bangladesh accomplished the chase in 23.3 overs, with a scientific strategy that was lacking within the first two ODIs. The bowling assault bounced again after conceding 331 for 9 within the earlier recreation. Shakib’s thrifty spell was a key characteristic of this, and solely the third accomplished ODI spell for Bangladesh the place 13 or fewer runs were conceded – tellingly, Shakib has been the bowler on all three events.
Only Azmatullah Omarzai‘s maiden ODI fifty stored the guests from stumbling to a good smaller rating. He made 56 off 71 balls at No. 7, an innings that confirmed up the remainder of the Afghanistan batting line-up for being slightly torpid towards Bangladesh’s correct bowling.
Their rot started within the third over when Ibrahim Zadran, one of many centurions from the earlier recreation, edged a Shoriful supply that was going away from him. Rahmat Shah adopted him later within the over when he edged one other supply that was angling away, however was barely shorter in size. Rahmat’s duck took his tally for the series to only ten.
Taskin received into the act subsequent, when he eliminated the damaging Rahmanullah Gurbaz, who made 145 within the earlier recreation, for six. Gurbaz swung his bat at a bouncer, Mushfiqur intercepting that edge with a high-quality leaping catch over his head. When Shoriful had Mohammad Nabi trapped lbw within the ninth over, it was solely the third time Bangladesh had taken the primary 4 wickets with 15 or fewer runs on the board.
Shakib struck subsequent, when he got here across the wicket to Najibullah Zadran, trapping him lbw because the left-hander missed a sweep shot. Hashmatullah Shahidi was bolwed by Taijul on the tried reverse-sweep and by then Afghanistan had been reeling at 53 for six and going nowhere with near half their innings accomplished.
Shoriful accomplished his four-wicket haul when debutant Abdul Rahman pulled one to Taijul at high-quality leg. Incidentally, he has taken his three four-fours all in the month of July – in 2021 towards Zimbabwe, in 2022 towards West Indies, and now in 2023 towards Afghanistan.
Omarzai seemed like the one batter able to mounting a restoration for the guests. His 56 off 71 balls included a 4 and three sixes. He added 36 runs for the ninth wicket with Mujeeb Ur Rahman, over 9.4 overs. He was the final batter out, miscuing a slog off Taskin, with Mohammad Naim taking a very good catch within the deep.
With the bat, Naim did himself no favours, falling for an eight-ball duck. The swinging and seaming Fazalhaq Farooqi supply he fell to was headed approach exterior the off stump however dragged again on to the stumps by Naim’s tried lower. It was much like how he chopped on within the second ODI, though that was a shorter supply.
Farooqi then eliminated Najmul Hossain Shanto with a ball that took his off stump – Shanto had made a little bit of room to drive, however missed. The two had been concerned in a little bit of back-and-forth earlier within the innings, so the send-off was fairly loud.
Shakib and Litton calmed issues with a 61-run partnership for the third wicket. Shakib struck 5 fours in his run-a-ball 39, whereas Litton performed a largely supporting function on the different finish. After Shakib departed, he received the job completed, finishing the chase with Towhid Hridoy who completed unbeaten on 23.