Gurbaz 145 and Ibrahim Zadran's 100 power Afghanistan beats Bangladesh and seal the series.
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The 2nd ODI Match of the Afghanistan tour of Bangladesh, 2023 was played today at Zahur Ahmed Chowdhury Stadium, Chattogram. In which Afghanistan beats Bangladesh by a big margin of 142 runs to seal the ODI series by 2-0.
Bangladesh won the toss and invited Afghanistan to bat first, Afghanistan batted first started the inning very strongly, Rahmanullah Gurbaz and Ibrahim Zadran came to start the inning and gave a very strong start with a double-century and a half-century partnership of 256 runs for the first wicket, the first wicket has dismissed for 256 runs in first ball of the 37th over, Rahmanullah Gurbaz dismissed after playing a very brilliant quick poweful century inning of 145 runs with the help of 8 sixes and 13 boundaires in just 125 balls, next batsman Rahmat Shah came to bat and he dismissed very quickly just for 2 runs in 5 balls as second wicket in first ball of the 38th over, the team score was 259 runs, next batsman Hashmatullah Shahidi came to bat and he also dismissed very quickly just for 2 runs in 7 balls as third wicket in last ball of the 39th over, the team score was 286 runs, next batsman Najibullah Zadran came to bat and he good strike rotate for a while with Ibrahim Zadran, the fourth wicket his dismissed for 286 runs in first ball of the 44th over, Najibullah Zadran dismissed for 10 runs in 15 balls, followed by Mohammad Nabi came to bat, after a mements the fifth wicket also dismissed for 299 runs in 45.3 over, Ibrahim Zadran dismissed after playing a very brilliant powerful century inning of 100 runs with the help of 1 six and 9 boundiares in 119 balls, next batsman Rashid Khan came to bat and he dismissed just for 6 runs in 6 balls as sixth wicket in 46.4 over, the team score was 306 runs, next batsman Azmatullah Omarzai came to bat and he dismissed just for 2 runs in 7 balls as seventh wicket in 48.5 over, the team score was 318 runs, next batsman Mujeeb Ur Rahman came to bat and he also dismissed very quickly just for 5 runs in 3 balls as eighth wicket in second ball of the final over, the team score was 323 runs, followed by Fazalhaq Farooqi came to bat and he also dismissed just for 1 run in 2 balls as ningth wicket in final ball of the inning, the team score was 331 runs, and Mohammad Nabi played an unbeaten inning of 25 runs with the help of 1 six and 1 boundary in just 15 balls. In this way, Afghanistan scored 331 runs after losing 9 wickets in the stipulated 50 overs and set a target of 332 runs in front of Bangladesh.
Bangladeshi bowlers Shakib Al Hasan took 2 wickets for 50 runs in his spell, Mustafizur Rahman 2 wickets for 60 runs in his spell, Hasan Mahmud 2 wickets for 70 runs in his spell, Mehidy Hasan Miraz 2 wickets for 60 runs in 9 overs, Ebadot Hossain 1 wicket for 61 runs in 9.2 overs, and Najmul Hossain Shanto was wicketless for 17 runs in 1.4 overs.
Bangladesh chasing 332 runs in the second inning, the entire team dismissed just for 189 runs in the second ball of the 44th over and lost the match by a big margin of 142 runs. Bangladesh started the inning very poorly, Mohammad Naim and Litton Das came to start the inning, and the first wicket has dismissed for 15 runs in the first ball of the 5th over, Litton Das dismissed for 13 runs in 15 balls, next batsman Najmul Hossain Shanto came to bat and he dismissed very quickly just for 1 run in 5 balls as second wicket in 5.5 over, the team score was 20 runs. next batsman Towhid Hridoy came to bat, after a moments the third wicket also dismissed for 25 runs in first ball of the 9th over, the team score was 25 runs, followed by Shakib Al Hasan came to bat and played well with Towhid Hridoy, the fourth wicket dismissed for 65 runs in 16.3 over, Towhid Hridoy dismissed for 16 runs in 34 balls, next batsman Mushfiqur Rahim came to bat, after a moments the fifth wicket also dismissed for 71 runs in last ball of the 18th over, Shakib Al Hasan dismissed after scoring 25 runs with the help of 3 boundaires in 29 balls, next batsman Afif Hossain came to bat and he dismissed very quickly just in 1 ball without score as sixth wicket in 18.3 over, the team score was 72 runs, followed by Mehidy Hasan Miraz came to bat handled the inning and played a very brilliant half-century partnership of 87 runs with Mushfiqur Rahim, the seventh wicket dismissed for 159 runs in 36.3 over, Mehidy Hasan Miraz dismissed after scoring 25 runs with the help of 2 boundaries in 48 balls, next batsman Hasan Mahmud came to bat and he dismissed just for 4 runs in 12 balls as 8th wicket in last ball of 39th over, the team score was 169 runs, next batsman Mustafizur Rahman came to bat and he good strike rotate with Mushfiqur Rahim, the 9th wicket has dismissed for 189 runs in 43.2 over, Mushfiqur Rahim dismissed after playing a very brilliant half-century inning of 69 runs with the help of 6 boundaires in 85 balls, next batsman Ebadot Hossain came to bat and he was abs hurt without playing any ball as 10th and final wicket, and Mustafizur Rahman was remians unbeaten for 7 runs in 10 balls. In this way, continuously wickets failed one after another, and end of the result the entire team was all-out just for 189 runs in 43.2 overs, and lost the match by a big margin of 142 runs, and with this lost also lost this ODI series by 2-0.
Afghanistan bowlers performed very brilliant bowling, Mujeeb Ur Rahman took 3 wickets just for 40 runs in his spell, Fazalhaq Farooqi took 3 wickets just for 22 runs in 7.2 overs, Rashid Khan 2 wickets just for 28 runs in 9 overs, Mohammad Nabi 1 wicket for 29 runs in 6 overs, Mohammad Saleem Safi was wicketless for 34 runs in 6 overs, and Azmatullah Omarzai also wicketless for 30 runs in 5 overs.
Afghanistan batsman Rahmanullah Gurbaz was selected as the best player of the match, he played a very brilliant quick powerful century inning of 145 runs with the help of 8 sixes and 13 boundaires in just 125 balls.
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