Sports Desk: Bangladesh is one of the established big teams in cricket. On the other hand, Malaysia is an associate member of the ICC. Bangladesh reached the semi-finals of the Asian Games cricket with a hard-earned victory over Malaysia in that match.
Bangladesh batted first and scored 116 runs for five wickets at the Zhejiang University of Technology cricket ground on Wednesday afternoon. In response, Malaysia stopped at 114 after losing eight wickets. Saif-Afifa made it to the last four with a 2-run win.
Bangladesh lost their wicket on the second ball. Mahmudul Hasan Jai was run out and returned with zero runs. Bangladesh has no wickets for zero runs. Then he lost another wicket after taking one run. Parvez Hossain Emon (0) returned lbw to Vijay Unni.
Another wicket was lost by three runs. This time Zakir Hasan (1) was out by Pawandeep Singh. That is, Bangladesh’s 3 wickets are not for 3 runs. From there, captain Saif Hasan and Afif Hossain pulled the team collection up to 41 runs.
Afif was caught by Zubaidi Zulfikar while blowing up Pawandeep. He scored 23 runs off 14 balls with 2 fours and 2 sixes. After that, Saif continued with Shahadat Hossain. Shahadat returned with 86 runs. 20 runs came from his bat in three fours.
From there, Saif and Zaker Ali completed the innings. Bangladesh collected 116 runs for 5 wickets with the innings of Saif’s 50 off 52 balls with 1 four and 3 sixes and Anik’s 14 runs off 2 fours.
Malaysia did not start well, like Bangladesh, in chasing runs. They scored 18 runs and lost three wickets. From there, a small resistance goes up to 38 runs. The fourth wicket was lost at the head of this run. Malaysia put up some resistance from there.
After going for 72 runs, they quickly lost two wickets. In other words, they lost six wickets in 72 runs. From there, Malaysia scared Bangladesh with the bat of Birendeep Singh. He got out on the fourth ball of the last over. He scored 52 runs on 39 balls with 3 fours and 4 sixes. However, he had a chance to win the match. But he could not take the pressure.
Malaysia needed 10 runs in the last two overs, i.e., 12 balls, to win. Had four wickets in hand. But they could not take it. In the end, the ICC partner country stopped at 114 after losing eight wickets. Bangladesh won by two runs. Reached the semi-finals.
Afif Hossain Dhrub was the best bowler in Bangladesh with the ball. He took 3 wickets and 11 runs in 4 overs. Ripon Mondal bowled 3 overs and took 3 wickets for 14 runs with 1 maiden.
