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Bangladesh's cricketers won their country its first-ever gold medal in the Asian Games by beating Afghanistan in a thrilling final in Guangzhou. In a see-saw match that attracted a crowd of 2000, 19-year-old Shabbir Rahman smashed two sixes in the penultimate over to decisively swing the match Bangladesh's way and dash Afghan hopes of a gold.
A day after upsetting cricket score fancied Pakistan in the semi-finals, Afghanistan looked set for a hammering when they slid to 66 for 6 in the 13th over on choosing to bat. Youngsters Asghar Stanikzai (38*) and Shabir Noori (25) then gave Afghanistan's chances cricket score a boost with a stabilising stand that left Bangladesh needing 120 for victory.
Bangladesh almost made a mess of what should have been a straightforward chase, losing five wickets, including that of their experienced captain Mohammad Ashraful, for 75. Afghanistan were scenting another famous win but were denied by the pair of allrounder Naeem Islam, who is looking to secure a permanent spot in the Bangladesh side, and Rahman, a legspinner who was part of the squad for this year's Under-19 World Cup in New Zealand. With 19 needed off the final two overs, Bangladesh were the underdogs but they clubbed 17 runs of the 19th over from offspinner Karim Sadiq, who had excellent figures of 2-0-10-2 before cricket score that, to transform the game.
"I had a good talk with Naeen before the 19th over and we went for it," Shabbir said. "Luckily, it came good. There was no pressure on me, but I am sure my team-mates in the dressing room were tense."
Ashraful admitted he had given up hope towards the end. "I was feeling a bit low but then Shabbir came and did the job for us," he said. "There was a bit of pressure because Afghanistan are a very good side and this was our first major final."
Cricket has been Bangladesh's most productive sporting discipline at the Asian Games so far - besides the men's gold, they have won silver in the women's competition. They have only one other medal in the Asian Games so far, a bronze in kabaddi.
Congo to Bangla............but Hats off To AFGHAN team....Dey really PLayed well ...crush Hong Kong & PAKISTAN......nd den showed a good performance in final..but luckily Bangla won d match with their good performance.... cricket score
It's true Bangladesh win the gold but Afghanistan showed real improvement.cheers for them.They deserve to be in world cup.And as a country that still to get test status they showed lot of character against Bangladesh who has test status.
Congrats cricket score To Bangaldesh Team and Asraful (one of my favorite player) for gold medal in Asiad but in WORLD CUP CRICKET!!! cricket score we need to think about statistics!!! confidence!!! regularity!!! as a batsman (not bowler, we've lots of spinner)!!! pls compare as below
Bangladesh hv won 3 matches to win gold & nobody is ready to give due credit to team capt ashraful. How many of us thought we would definitely win when 17 needed cricket score fm 10 balls in a difficult batting pitch? After playing so many balls even nayeem could not connect so many balls. Ash expressed his thoughts after the match not during the match.He scored aprx 20 runs/match & got 7/8 wickets, rotated his bowlers well, team spirit & motivation was good.Those who does not like him at least be fair to him.He was player of the tournament in national league.Nafees is competing with tamim, imrul & junaed for his place not ash.Ash is competing with raqibul who is a good test player only.Better to get out than making 18 of 53 balls in one dayers.We r too emotional. cricket score Shabbir needs to perform in academy cricket score & A team to get a place in national team.
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