Bangladesh won T20 series against Afghanistan

Sharjah, October 3 (IANS). The Afghanistan cricket team, which performed badly in the Asia Cup 2025, lost to Bangladesh in the T20 series. Bangladesh defeated Afghanistan by 2 wickets in the second game of the series played in Sharjah on Friday. Bangladesh won the first T20 by four wickets. In the match played on Friday, Bangladesh won the throw and chose bowling. Afghanistan batted first and scored 147 runs for 5 wickets. Ibrahim Jadaran scored 38 and batsman Rahmanullah Gurbaz scored 30 runs. Sedikullah Atal scored 23 runs. Nabi was unbeaten by scoring 20 runs on 12 balls and Ajmatullah Omrajai 17 runs on 17 balls. Bangladesh won the match by 2 wickets by scoring 150 runs at the loss of 8 wickets in 19.1 overs to reach the target of 148 runs. For Bangladesh, Captain Zakir recorded 32, Shamim Hussain scored 33 and Nurul Hasan scored 31 runs. Bangladesh, who lost 3 wickets for 24 runs thanks to these three innings, easily won the game. For Afghanistan, Ajmatullah Omrajai took 4 wickets for 23 runs in 3.1 overs and Captain Rashid Khan took 2 wickets for 29 runs in 4 overs. The attempts of these two were not enough for Afghanistan victory and the team faced the second consecutive defeat. Bangladesh took an untouchable 2-0 lead in the series. The last match will be played on October 5. Afghanistan’s performance in the Asia Cup 2025 was extremely disappointing. Afghanistan Asia Cup, who defeated big teams in the ODI World Cup 2023 and T20 World Cup 2024, could not reach Super 4 of 2025. At the beginning of the tournament, Afghanistan was considered the contender for the final, but the team could not make a place in Super 4, due to the scarcity and a good as a poor performance in the field. The Bangladesh series was like a return to Afghanistan. The team was not successful in this. —Is Pack Share This Story -Tags