Bangladesh ‘A’ team has made a great start in the Emerging Asia Cup. Akbar Ali defeated Hong Kong in their first match. The captain himself led from the front in this victory. Bangladesh won by 5 wickets due to his stormy innings.
Hong Kong scored 150 runs after losing 8 wickets in the scheduled 20 overs after losing the toss and batting on Friday (October 18). Despite being under pressure in the beginning to respond, the Tigers won with the bat of Akbar Ali. Akbar played a stormy innings of 45 runs off 24 balls. With this win, Bangladesh is at the top of the ‘A’ group table with 2 points.
Hong Kong quickly lost 2 wickets after coming to bat at the invitation of Bangladesh. Then Nizakat Khan and Babar Hayat took the lead. After 6 overs of Powerplay, Hong Kong scored 35 runs after losing two wickets. Nizat departed with the team scoring 74 runs, scoring 25 runs off 20 balls.
Babar was running at great speed, hurling his fifty. But he also had to stop at the head of the team’s 130 runs. Babar played an excellent innings of 85 runs off 61 balls. Ehsan Khan remained unbeaten after playing a 5-ball 13-run cameo innings at the end.
Ripon Mondal took 4 wickets at the cost of 24 runs for Bangladesh. Rakibul Hasan, Rezaur Rahman Raja, Abu Haider Roni and Mahfuzur Rahman Rabbi took 1 wicket each.
Jisan Alam returned to Sajghar with 11 runs off 11 balls to answer. Bangladesh scored 38 runs losing 1 wicket from Powerplay. Parvez Hossain Imon departed after Zisan’s departure, scoring 28 runs off 26 balls. Bangladesh fell under a bit of pressure after losing 3 wickets out of 55 runs.
After that, Akbar paired with Tawhid Hriday. However, due to the slow batting, the pressure increased on the team. Akbar blew that pressure in the 12th over. He picked up 21 runs in one over. That’s where the match turned.
Then Hridoy departed after scoring 29 runs off 22 balls. Akbar almost ensured the victory of the team and got out after 129 runs. Shamim Hossain Patwari and Mahfuzur Rahman Rabbi completed the rest of the work quite easily. Bangladesh easily reached the port of victory with the fluent batting of the two.
Bangladesh won by 5 wickets with 10 balls in hand. Shamim scored 15 runs off 19 balls. Rabbi was unbeaten with 8 runs from 8 balls. Ehsan Khan took 3 wickets for Hong Kong.
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