Afridi-inspired Pakistan beat Bangladesh in campaign opener

Men in green beat Bengali Tigers by 55 runs in second match of World T20 Super10s

Azeem Siddiqui/Abdul Majid March 16, 2016
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Pakistan captain Shahid Afridi's all-round performance inspired his team to a 55-run victory against Bangladesh in their World T20 Super10s match on Wednesday at the Eden Gardens, Kolkata.

This was Pakistan's second-biggest victory margin in the World T20s after an 82-run victory against Netherlands at Lords in 2009.

After Pakistan won the toss and elected to bat first, Ahmed Shehzad (52) and Muhammad Hafeez (64) scored half-tons to help their team start off well against Bangladesh.

Shahid Afridi walked in at number four and blasted 49 off just 19 balls then to guide the team past 200-run mark.

Taskin Ahmed and Arafat Sunny bagged two wicket apiece for Bangladesh.

While chasing 202 runs, Bangladesh kept the score board ticking but lost wickets after regular intervals.

Shakibal Hasan scored 50 off 40 balls to top-score for Bangladesh. The team could only manage 146 runs in 20 overs for the loss of six wickets.

Muhammad Amir and Shahid Afridi bagged two wickets for Pakistan.

Post-match presentation

Man of the match is Shahid Afridi: My performance is always key. I was hungry for a performance. It’s a big event. I should take responsibility. I had to set an example for the youngsters. [On promoting himself in the batting order] I love to give chances to my batsmen but sometimes you need to come out yourself."

He continued: "Our batsmen were struggling to find runs. Hafeez and Shehzad did good for us today. Sharjeel is also an attacking cricketer who can give us a good start if he stays there for the first six overs. I don't live in the past. We should learn from our mistakes. They are playing good cricket. Our morale is very high after this game.

On a question of what do you enjoy the most? Batting, bowling or captaincy? Afridi said: "Captaincy is difficult but I like it most."

Mashrafe Mortaza: Chasing 200 is always difficult. We didn't bowl well today. We should have scored more runs in the first six overs. We have to be mentally set against Australia. Our bowling will have to come good against them. Mustafiz is getting better, he will be back soon.

Teams

Pakistan: Shehzad, Sharjeel, Hafeez, Malik, U Akmal, Sarfraz (wk), Afridi (capt), Imad Wasim, Wahab, Amir, Irfan

Bangladesh:  Tamim, Soumya, Sabbir, Shakib, Mahmudullah, Mushfiqur (wk), Mithun, Mashrafe (capt), Sunny, Taskin, Al-Amin



BAN 146-6 (20 overs)

Single taken and FIFTY up for Shakib.

SIX! Shakib goes straight on a fuller ball. He moves to 49.

Single on the second ball.

FOUR! Slapped towards extra cover by Mashrafe.

Wahab Riaz bowls the last over.



BAN 134-6 (19 overs)

The 'normal' bowler Amir ends with figures of 27-2 in his four overs.

FOUR! Mashrafe guides the fuller delivery past short third man.

Muhammad Amir in for his last over.



BAN 123-6 (18 overs)

SIX! The straight shot from Mashrafe just clears the rope

OUT! Muhammad Irfan gets his first. Amir takes the catch at third man. Umpires check for no-ball and Irfan just survived. Muhammad Mithun walks back. The captain Mashrafe Mortaza walks in.

FOUR! Picked up from length and dispatches towards deep midwicket.

Muhammad Irfan in for his last over.



BAN 111-5 (17 overs)

OUT! Mushfiqur Rahim top-edge as Sarfraz settles under it for the catch. Muhammad Mithun joins Shakib.

FOUR! Mushfiq goes over mid-off.

Shehzad drops Shakib al Hasan at deep midwicket.

Muhammad Amir is back.





BAN 105-4 (16 overs)

FOUR! Back of the hand slow ball by Wahan and Shakib goes towards extra cover.

Wahab Riaz again.



BAN 98-4 (15 overs)

FOUR! Shakib goes for a lob over short fine leg's head.

Muhammad Irfan is back.





BAN 93-4 (14 overs)

FOUR! Short and Mushfiq plays a pull off the front foot.

Wahab Riaz is called back and the task has become nearly impossible for Bangladesh now.



BAN 87-4 (13 overs)

Stump chance but Sarfraz didn't collect the ball and dislodge the bails.

FOUR! Pulled on the back foot towards midwicket by Mushfiqur Rahim.

Single by Shakib to start the over.

Imad Wasim continues.



BAN 79-4 (12 overs)

A loud LBW appeal on Mushfiqur Rahim but the ball was drifting down the leg side.

FOUR! Shakib slaps it towards long off.

Shahid Afridi in for his last over.



BAN 74-4 (11 overs)

OUT! Mahmudullah caught at square leg by a forward-diving Sharjeel Khan.



Imad Wasim has been brought on.



BAN 69-3 (10 overs)

Two taken off the same area by Shakib.

FOUR! Cut square through off by Shakib.

Mahmudullah defends the second ball. Gets one run off leg bye on the next.

Single by Shakib from long-on.

Shahid Afridi in for his third over.



BAN 61-3 (9 overs)

Just a single from the first four balls. Two singles off the last two balls. Just three off the over.

Shoaib Malik continues.



BAN 58-3 (8 overs)

OUT! Tamim Iqbal caught at deep midwicket by Imad as he tries to sweep Afridi. Mahmudullah joins Shakib in the middle.



Run-out chance but both the batsman, Shakibal Hasan, and the fielder at short third man, Ahmed Shehzad, slip.

Shahid Afridi in for his second over.



BAN 55-2 (7 overs)

Umpire calls it a wide as Tamim tries to sweep and Sarfraz jumps up and down to appeal for a catch. Replay show the ball did kiss his thigh pad.

SIX! Tamim plays with the spin and clears the extra cover boundary.



Shoaib Malik has the ball now as two left-handers bat.



BAN 45-2 (6 overs)

BOWLED! Its the wrong'un. Afridi sends Sabbir back to the pavilion. The balls ripped through Sabbir's defence.



FOUR! Sabbir cuts and the fielder stops it, he cuts again and this time he beats the covers fielder.

SIX! Short and pulled over midwicket. Afridi given a taste of his own medicine.



Shahid Afridi is on now.



BAN 33-1 (5 overs)

Wahab forced to come round the wicket.

FOUR! Slashed by Sabbir towards extra cover.

Wahab Riaz has been brought on by Afridi. Tamim takes a single.





BAN 26-1 (4 overs)

Swing and a miss on the last ball by Sabbir.

Three more singles.

Dot to start, single off the second ball followed by a wide.

Muhammad Irfan in for his second over.



BAN 21-1 (3 overs)

Single taken by Sabbir. Over ends with a dot to Tamim.

FOUR! Sabbir drives with authority through covers. Follows it with two dots towards covers.

Single by Tamim.

Muhammad Amir again.



BAN 15-1 (2 overs)

Good over for Bangladesh. Can Amir strike again if he comes on for another one?

FOUR! On his legs and Sabbir guides it past mid-on towards midwicket.

Dot followed by a single.

Muhammad Irfan shares the new ball with Amir. Tamim faces.



BAN 6-1 (1 over)



FOUR! Amir comes round the wicket and Sabbir cuts it towards deep point.

Sabbir Rahman is the new man in and Amir bowls a wide to him.

BOWLED! Amir you beauty! The ball moves in just a bit and Soumya's off-stump is uprooted.



Muhammad Amir starts the defence for Pakistan while Soumya Sarkar and Tamim Iqbal open the chase for Bangladesh.



World praises Pakistan's batting show









PAK 201-5 (20 overs)

Malik faces the last ball... In the block hole and only a single taken. Bangladesh need 202 to win against Pakistan.

Two runs taken and Pakistan reach the 200-run mark.

OUT! Not now. Afridi is caught at deep midwicket as he flicks one off his pads. He departs on 49 off 19.



Full-toss cut towards point as Afridi faces. He is on 49 from 18.

FOURx2! Malik doing some good work for his team at the moment.

Taskin to bowl the last over.



PAK 189-4 (19 overs)

SIX! Afridi ends the over with a maximum over the bowler's head. Who said Afridi had lost his charm?

Dot and single by Malik.

Single by Afridi.

FOUR! Slow ball fed to Afridi, he waits and hits it with immense power towards extra cover.

Single off the first ball by Shakib as Afridi comes on to face the second ball.



Praise has started to flow in for Soumya's catch.









PAK 176-4 (18 overs)

OUT! Umar goes towards mid-off again, this time on the up and the the fielder takes an easy catch. Shoaib Malik has been sent in.

Umar hits it to mid-off for no run.

Afridi plays a dot and brings Umar Akmal on with a single.

SIX! Short and wide on off, Afridi hits it from the bottom of the bat and still clears the boundary over extra cover. Not a good welcome for Taskin Ahmed.



PAK 168-3 (17 overs)

FOUR! Afridi won't stop. Another boundary.



WHAT A CATCH! Soumya takes the catch at midwicket, throws it in the air and jumps out of the boundary, waits for the ball to come down and then bags it safely. Hafeez departs as Umar Akmal joins Afridi.



FOUR! Hafeez goes square on leg. Finds the fence with ease.

Afridi hits it towards midwicket for another single.

Arafat Sunny to Hafeez. Starts with a single.



PAK 157-2 (16 overs)

SIX! Afridi moves towards leg and hits an incoming fuller delivery straight into the stands.

FOUR! Full-toss and Hafeez uses his wrist to guide it towards extra cover.

FOUR! Hafeez squats and guides the fuller delivery past the keeper towards fine leg.

Afridi takes two from midwicket. Follows up with a single.

Al-Amin is back for his third over.



PAK 139-2 (15 overs)

Single off the last ball. Afridi faces the next over.

SIX! NO BALL and a FREE HIT to Afridi... Mashrafe bowls it wide from round the stumps. Umpire says it not a wide.

FOUR! Afridi guides it towards fine leg.

FOUR! Short and on leg, Afridi plays it late and pulls it towards square leg.

Hafeez takes a quick single and completes his half-century. He is the main man for Pakistan in this event.

Afridi takes a single on the first ball he faces.

Mashrafe Mortaza to Shahid Afridi; captain to captain.



PAK 121-2 (14 overs)

OUT! Shehzad gives the shot his all but finds the fielder at midwicket. Good useful innings played by him on his return. Meanwhile, Shahid Afridi has walked into the ground himself. Are we in for a 'boom boom' innings from Lala.



Hafeez take a single towards covers.

Single followed by two runs.

Sabbir Rahman replaces Al-Amin.





PAK 117-1 (13 overs)

Single to end the over.

FOUR! Short and Hafeez doesn't care about the short midwicket fielder. Plants his foot and goes over his head to find the boundary.

Single and Ahmed Shehzad completes his half-ton on his return to the squad after being dropped for the Asia Cup.

FOUR! Shehzad gets some hand to a ball which rolls down to the fine leg boundary.

Mashrafe Mortaza again.



PAK 106-1 (12 overs)

Three singles follow.

FOUR! Pulled towards square leg by Shehzad. Hundred up for Pakistan with the shot.

Shehzad hits it to point. Dot.

Al-Amin is back.



PAK 99-1 (11 overs)

Cuts it away for two on the last ball.

Goes for a sweep on the next ball and misses it.

FOUR! Short and pulled by Hafeez. He had to put a lot of power in it.

Two taken by Hafeez as he hits one towards deep cover.

Shehzad starts with a dot and then gets a single in an attempt to for a big booming drive.

Shakibal Hasan.



Meanwhile, Ajmal and Dean Jones share some thoughts







PAK 90-1 (10 overs)

FOUR! Short and pulled by Shehzad towards cow corner. Two fielder concur but cannot stop it.

Sabbir Rahman with his off-spinner now.



PAK 83-1 (9 overs)

Three more singles from three balls.

Three singles for Hafeez, Shehzad and Hafeez respectively.

Shakibal Hasan is back.





PAK 77-1 (8 overs)

FOUR! Exquisite from Shehzad. Cuts it past point and third man.

One run taken by Hafeez from midwicket.

Single taken by Shehzad as he steps forward, inside edges it and then turn back to avoid a stumping. Hafeez tells him he is safe as they complete a single.

FOUR! Short and Shehzad pulls it off his legs towards square leg. The fielder tries but couldn't stop it.

Two singles taken by Shehzad and Hafeez respectively.

Mashrafe Mortaza brings himself into the attack.



PAK 65-1 (7 overs)

SIX! Hafeez comes forward and goes over the bowler's head. Pakistan dominating Bangladesh at the moment.

Shehzad nudges the ball towards square leg for another single.

Sunny runs towards midwicket as Hafeez takes a single.

Hafeez leaves the delivery as it spins away from him. Dot.

Shehzad takes one run from long-on.

Single taken by Hafeez as he kisses the ball towards short third man.

Arafat Sunny in for his third over.



PAK 55-1 (6 overs)

Hafeez steals a quick single off the last ball. End of the powerplay.

FOUR! Hafeez gives the charge again and this time slaps it past wide mid-off.

STUMP APPEAL on Hafeez! The ball was sliding down the leg side as Mushfiqur Rahim dislodges the bails. Hafeez's foot was cemented firmly in the crease. He survives. Also given as a wide.

FOUR! A tad fuller and Hafeez goes towards long-off.

Starts with a dot to Shehzad who takes a single on the second ball.

Shakibal Hasan, Bangladesh's best spinner with the ball is called on, now.



PAK 44-1 (5 overs)

Another dot as Hafeez plays it towards covers.

Single taken by Shehzad as Hafeez plays a dot.

FOUR! Shehzad steps forward and slams it over extra cover.

Shehzad defends for a dot.

Single taken by Hafeez.

Arafat Sunny is back.



PAK 38-1 (4 overs)

Hafeez charges, Taskin bowls a short ball, it goes into the hands of the mid-off fielder as hits directly while Hafeez dives in. Replay shows he is comfortably in.

Single taken as Shehzad defends one towards mid-off and runs hard towards the non-striker's end.

Hit hard towards covers but Shehzad again finds the fielder.

Driven towards mid-on for another dot.

Carved towards point for a dot by Shehzad.

FOUR! Timed to perfection by Shehzad towards midwicket.

Taskin is back.



PAK 32-1 (3 overs)

Dot on the last ball.

SIX! Hafeez middles one over long-on.

Muhammad Hafeez is in and defends the first ball.

BOWLED! Sharjeel's off-stump is rattled by Sunny.



Sharjeel defends the second ball.

Singles by Shehzad.

Arafat Sunny on now.



PAK 25-0 (2 overs)

FOUR! Fuller this time and Sharjeel goes over mid-off's head this time. Sharjeel boasting his hitting prowess here.

Single from short midwicket by Shehzad.

Inside edge onto the pads and Shehzad quickly reaches the striker's end as Sharjeel strolls towards non-striker's end.

SIX! Straight this time. Sharjeel waits and dispatches it.

Misses the next ball as it shapes away from him.

SIX! Sharjeel hits one off the pads towards square leg. What a start to the over.



Al-Amin shares the new ball with



PAK 7-0 (1 over)

Leg bye and Sharjeel takes a single to end the over.

Followed by a single. Sharjeel to face the last ball off the over.

FOUR! Length and on off, Shehzad goes for the cover drive.



Shehzad defends his first ball towards mid-off.

Sharjeel just survives. Lofts one over mid-on and Tamim isn't able to reach it. Single taken!

Dot to start the proceedings.

Taskin Ahmed warms up to bowl the first over for Bangladesh. Ahmed Shehzad and Sharjeel Khan are going to open for Pakistan.



National anthems being played for Pakistan and Bangladesh.



















Toss

Pakistan have won the toss and elected to bat first against Bangladesh.
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COMMENTS (14)

Saad | 8 years ago | Reply Afridi is afraidi of nobody.
Haji Atiya | 8 years ago | Reply @nasser: Ok, point taken. Rather we have edged closer to being considered minnows now as Bangladesh, on average, has improved over recent years whilst we, on average, have gone in the reverse direction.
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