BAN vs PAK | Twitteratti go insane as Bangladesh end series with big loss

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BySportsCafe Desk,SportsCafe Editor

Pakistan destroyed Bangladesh’s clean sweep hopes in the final T20I at Dhaka on Thursday. Sahibzada Farhan introduces himself in the series with a remarkable half-century, with Salman Mirza and Faheem Ashraf create havoc with the ball to ensure they finish a disappointing home-series with a win.

Bangladesh had won the toss and elected to field first in the last and final game of the series. The visitors needed to prove their mettle after poor performances in the first two games of the series. Opener Sahibzada Farhan continued to play his shots while Saim Ayub held the fort at the other end as Pakistan ended the powerplay on a score of 57/0. Pakistan continued to score runs, and though there were a few chances created, which also included a missed stumping of Mohammad Haris in the middle they were still looking in a solid position at 86/1 at the halfway stage. Though Pakistan did have a few quiet overs in the middle after Farhan was finally dismissed for 63, and Haris’s 14-ball struggle was ended by Taskin Ahmed in the 14th over. However, the cameos Hasan Nawaz ( 33 off 17) and Mohammad Nawaz made sure the team reached a competitive total of 178/7 in the end. The Tigers' bowling attack failed to get big breakthroughs with only Nasum Ahmed ( 2/22 in four overs) and Taskin Ahmed ( 3/38 in four overs) looking threatening in the first innings.
The target of 179 was always going to be challenging for the hosts, and Pakistan pacers Salman Mirza and Faheem Ashraf made that clear at the start. Bangladesh were on the back foot straight away in the powerplay, with the score being 29/5. Mirza and Ashraf put on a wonderful display of seam bowling, which included some beautiful nip-backers that crashed into the stumps to dismiss Das, Jaker Ali, and Mahedi Hasan. The hosts continued to lose wickets and were finally bowled out for 104 run with Mohammad Saifuddin being the only batter to cross the 30-run mark. The host lost the game by 74 runs, which ruined the hopes of a clean sweep for Bangladesh. 

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