The Kiwis didn't care about Afghanistan



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Flying Afghanistan was in a winning mood beating England on last Oct.15 at Delhi, but Hashmatullah Shahidi's team stumbled against New Zealand in the next match. They lost by a big margin of 149 runs.

Afghanistan was losing wickets from the start when they came to bat for the target of 289 runs given by the Kiwis. The successful opening pair of the previous match could not do much in this match. Due to which they were under pressure from the beginning. They lost 3 wickets within the team's 43 runs under the attack of the Kiwi bowlers. Then they saw some hope in the bats of two batsmen Rahmat Shah and Azmatullah Omarzai. But after the dismissal of Omarzai (27) for the team's 97 runs, the rhythm fell. All of the rest of the batters were on the march. As a result, the Afghan innings stopped within 139 runs. Right-handed batsman Rahmat Shah scored the highest 36 runs for Afghanistan.

Both Lockie Ferguson and Mitchell Santaner each took the maximum three wickets for the Kiwis.

Earlier, New Zealand lost the toss and lost 6 wickets to bat and got a fighting capital of 288 runs

   

Bangladesh-United States series will be watched on Nagaraik TV channel



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Most of the recent series in Bangladesh are telecasted on T-Sports and Gazi TV. However, Bangladesh's three-match preparatory T20 series against the United States before the World Cup will not be shown on these two channels. So there was a bit of confusion where cricket fans in the country would watch this series. But that uncertainty has passed.

Bangladesh's three-match T20I series against USA will be telecast live by private TV channel Nagarik TV. This has been confirmed by Nagarik TV to Barta24.

Tomorrow, Tuesday (21), Bangladesh and USA will meet at the Prairie View Cricket Complex in the United States at 9 pm Bangladesh time.

The next two matches of the series will start at the same venue on May 23 and 25 respectively.

After this series, Bangladesh is scheduled to play two official T20 World Cup warm-up matches against India and USA. 

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Bangladesh Team announced with Taskin as vice-captain



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There was concern about Taskin Ahmed as he got injured at the last minute. But that apprehension remained in the end apprehension. Taskin is in the team, but Bangladesh announced the 15-member World Cup team today by making him the vice-captain.

Chief selector Gazi Ashraf Hossain announced the names of the team members at the Mirpur Sher-e-Bangla Stadium. There are no big surprises in the Bangladesh team. Taskin Ahmed is in the team, who is a bit worried due to injury. However, pace bowling all-rounder Saifuddin, who was talked about returning to the Zimbabwe series after 18 months before the World Cup, did not have a place in the end.

Spinner Tanveer Islam has survived considering the conditions of the World Cup. He will play the World Cup for the first time. Liton Kumar Das, who was dropped in the last two matches due to poor performance in the Zimbabwe series, has survived another round. The selectors have trusted him because of his experience.

Pacer Hasan Mahmud and all-rounder Afif Hossain Dhrubo have been called to the team as reserves. Two more players will be picked up for the three-match T20I series against hosts USA before the World Cup although the names of those two have not been announced yet.

Bangladesh Squad:

Nazmul Hossain Shanto (Captain), Taskin Ahmed (Vice-Captain), Liton Das, Soumya Sarkar, Tanjid Hasan Tamim, Shakib Al Hasan, Mahmudullah Riyad, Tawheed Hriday, Tanveer Islam, Zaker Ali Anik, Sheikh Mehdi, Rishad Hossain, Mustafizur Rahman, Shariful Islam, Tanjim Hasan Shakib.

Traveling Reserve: Hasan Mahmud and Afif Hossain Dhrubo. 

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Sunrisers’ history by winning the match playing only 58 balls



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Awesome, incredible, superhuman - these are the words that must have been repeated in your mouth after watching Sunrisers Hyderabad bat this season of IPL. Why not? The Travis Head-Abhishek Sharma pair is making one after another feat with the bat. In this season, Hyderabad has already achieved the feat of collecting the highest total in the history of IPL. This time they have also made the record of chasing the biggest target by playing the least number of balls.

Hyderabad reached the target of 166 runs given by Lucknow Supergiants in a total of 9.4 overs or 58 balls. No one else has achieved such a feat in recognized men's T20.

Lucknow won the toss and decided to bat first at Hyderabad's home ground. They could not take advantage in the first 10 overs under the influence of Bhuvneshwar Kumar. At this time the scoreboard accumulated 57 runs for 3 wickets. However, in the second half of the innings, Caribbean batter Nicholas Puran and Ayush Badoni got the fighting capital of 99 runs. Their run in 20 overs stood at 165 for 4 wickets.

Ayush remains unbeaten on 55 off 30 balls with 9 fours, Puran's 48* off 26 balls. Hyderabad pacer Bhuvneshwar took 2 wickets at the cost of 12 runs after completing the quota of 4 overs.

In IPL, the fountain of runs is running in almost every match, but the collection of 165 runs is not insignificant. A good bowling attack has a pattern of success with this group of targets. But where the bowlers of Lucknow could do 'good bowling'!

Chasing 166 runs, Hyderabad's two openers Head and Abhishek's bat became the open sword. Head scored 89 runs with four sixes from 30 balls. Abhishek hit 75 off 28 balls with an even number of fours and two less sixes.

With their superhuman batting, Hyderabad took a step closer to the playoffs with a big 10-wicket victory. With this victory, their points from 12 matches are now 14, and they are third in the table. 

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Bangladesh defeats sloppy Zimbabwe



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There was a forecast of rain in Chattogram at eight o'clock on Friday night. As predicted, the rain appeared shortly after 8pm. The match started after a short pause. After some time it rained again. Bangladesh won easily in the first T20I of the five-match series against Zimbabwe in two phases of rain. Bangladesh beat Sikandar Raja's team by 8 wickets.

Bangladesh lost Liton Das at the beginning when they came to bat for the target of 125 runs given by Zimbabwe. He got back bowled by Blessing Mujarabani after scoring 1 run from 3 balls. However, the other opener Tanjid Tamim and captain Nazmul Hossain Shanto kept the wheel running by making a pair of 52 runs despite the rain in two phases.

When the game started after rain-interruption in the second round, Tamim and Shanto started playing frantically. Tamim saw a 36-ball fifty after getting life twice due to the failure of the Zimbabwean fielders. After fifty he got one more life. In the end, after winning the team by scoring 67 runs from 47 balls, this batsman, who was anointed in T20 cricket with this match, left the field.

Shanto, however, was not so 'lucky'. The Bangladesh captain returned to the palm of Shaun Williams at deep midwicket off Luke Jongwe for a personal 21 runs. Tawhid Hriday made an important contribution to the team's victory in a 18-ball 33-run innings. Bangladesh reached the target with 28 balls to spare.

Earlier, after losing the toss scored 124 runs in 20 overs facing terrific Taskin – Saifuddin attack. Taskin took 3 wickets for 14 runs, Saifuddin also took 3 wickets with one run more. Spinner Sheikh Mehdi Hasan got two wickets.

Zimbabwe, who lost 7 wickets for 41 runs in a batting collapse, collected a hundred in the eighth wicket in the fighting pair of Clive Madande and Wellington Masakadza. The visitors capitalized on their 75-run stand. The highest 43 runs for the team came with the bat of wicketkeeper-batter Madand. 

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