PAK vs BAN Live Commentary and Cricket Score, T20 WC 2022 41st Match: Pakistan lock horns against Bangladesh Pakistan vs Bangladesh Live Cricket Score, T20 WC 2022, 41st Match, Super 12 Group 2: Bangladesh had a promising start early on in the innings with 70 runs at the halfway point however, They fell apart completely in the second half of the innings. Shanto played a good hand with his 50 no other batter supported him at any point. Shaheen Shah who started the competition slowly is now getting back into rhythm. He bowled a brilliant spell picking up four wickets. Bowlers did their job for Pakistan it is up to the batters to take them home and take them to the semifinals.
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Match EndedICC Men's T20 World Cup, Australia, 2022 - Super 12 - Match 29
Pakistan
128/5 (18.1)vs
Bangladesh
127/8 (20.0)Match Ended ( Day - Super 12 - Match 29 )
Pakistan beat Bangladesh by 5 wickets
Pakistan beat Bangladesh by 5 wickets
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Pakistan is yet to lose a single game against Bangladesh in the T20 World Cups. (AP)
After a slow and steady start, Pakistan lost a few wickets in the middle. However, Mohammad Haris had a good cameo of 31(18) balls. It wasn't convincing but enough for Pakistan to go through to the semifinals.
Sriram Veera: When Mohammad Haris, who turned the game around with his bat, was selected for the T20 world cup squad, he hadn’t played a single T20. Barbed tongues were out, of course. Former spinner Saeed Ajmal would say this.
“Mohammad Haris is selected because he is Ramiz Raja's choice, he is his favourite. Ramiz Raja likes him, that's why they kept him," Ajmal said on his official YouTube channel."If you want to go by performance, Sarfaraz (Ahmed) has been performing well in the (domestic) T20s. You could have kept him in the reserves.”
The injury to Fakhar Zaman got Haris a game against South Africa where he played a fiery cameo to turn the tide. Here again, under pressure, with the openers out and Mohammad Nawaz failing, he stood up to be counted.
Sriram Veera: The game turned again in the 14th over for the nth time. Mohammad Haris first slammed a full-length ball to cover the boundary and then pulled a bouncer to a deep square leg. Afif Hossain lunged behind but even before he could throw the ball back, he had stepped on the ropes. At the end of that over, Pakistan needed 39 from 26 balls. Unfortunately, no camera was on Shakib Al Hasan. At the start of the over, he had tried his sunglasses on. Then removed it. Then had it on. Then removed it. Under pressure, the itch was on. For all the criticism, Shakib has captained the chase well as far as the bowling changes. He even got himself very early in the Powerplay to see if he could do anything but Rizwan swept him for a couple of boundaries.
He then brought himself on for the crucial 15th over. Three balls, three singles as Pakistan tried to bat cautiously. Then Nawaz charged out but couldn’t get under the loopy Shakib ball and stabbed it towards cover. They tried to steal the run but the throw was accurate and Pakistan lost a wicket. Shakib led a team huddle as Pakistan were now 92 for 3
Sriram Veera: In the 13th over, Muztafizur Rehman came up with a brute of a bouncer to Mohammad Haris. The ball crashed into the helmet and as it popped up, it ricocheted off the bat and lobbed behind the stumps where Nurul Hasan made a valiant attempt by lunging back but couldn’t read it. And Shakib slumped to the ground in disappointment. It’s been that kind of a day for him. Out lbw in controversial circumstances when most felt he had an inside edge but the third umpire was convinced there was no bat. He had dawdled then, refusing to go back, having chats with the umpire. Then he bared his heart even more in the last few minutes.
Sriram Veera:
Oh Pakistan … and Oh Shakib Al Hasan …. In the 12th over, they had their fans in a nervous frenzy when Mohammad Rizwan joined his captain back in the hut. Never a great off-side player, but usually really good with square cuts, Rizwan was perhaps caught in two minds with that well-outside-off ball from Ebadot. He went for a tame cut, taking his bottom hand off the handle, and squirting the ball straight to the point. A couple of balls and more drama as Ebadot appealed for an lbw decision against Nawaz and the ball rolled out to the gully region.
Out came a throw with the batsman well outside the crease but he missed and the ball would roll down to the boundary for four overthrows. Shakib wailed, flung his cap down to the ground and went to the umpires. This was immediately after the initial appeal was negated. Shakib was upset for some reason and took it up with the umpires. Perhaps, he was upset about the time running out for the review. The clock had ticked over. The umpires wouldn’t consider the DRS.
Shakib wailed, flung his cap down to the ground and went to the umpires. The replays show that the ball had pitched outside the leg stump. Shakib Al Hasan is one of the more emotive captains in world cricket. In Bangladesh, he has uprooted stumps and flung decisions he didn’t like. Well, he did that once, but these things stick. Once, from the team balcony, he had done a pelvic thrust at his detractors. The Shakib Al Hasan Emotions file is a huge never-ending one.
Sriram Veera:
Babar is no Rizwan. In terms of the sweep shot. When Nasum flighted one up outside off - fab delivery, that with a great loopy dip - Babar went down on his knee. So far so good. But to fetch it from outside off and swing it over the leg side would need Rizwanish skills; just a desire wouldn’t do. As Babar found out. Unsurprisingly, the ball ballooned up for a simple catch and Nasum roared.
Off the fifth ball, Nasum went down pleading for an lbw shout against Mohammad Nawaz, who too had gone for the sweep. The umpire didn’t agree, and so they went for the DRS. The point of impact though was outside off and Nawaz escaped.
Pakistan loses both their openers. Rizwan trying to cut one hit to the point fielder. It was a good catch by Shanto. Pakistan getting into some sort of pickle here.
The premium batter huffed and puffed edged a few middles a few eventually falls for 25 trying to hit one into the stands of Nasum.
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Babar Azam and Mohammad Rizwan are going back to their ways. They have started slowly but steadily here. Looks like they are going to take the game home quite comfortably.
Sriram Veera: He is one of the best sweepers in world cricket. Mohammad Rizwan can even sweep the pacers, never mind the spinners as Shakib Al Hasan would find out. Not that Hasan didn’t know it already; he even hurled his left-armers outside off but the line doesn’t really matter for Rizwan who was on his knee to dispatch two successive fours. He took the bottom hand off the first one and sent the ball well to the right of the deep square leg. Next ball, he hit it hard to the left of that fielder. At 26 for 0, after that dropped catch, in 4 overs, Pakistan are looking good. Already, 1992 talks have been circling in the air since the morning.
Sriram Veera: Poor Taskin Ahmed. Clearly one of the best pacers of the tournaments, and Bangladesh's best, produced a peach of a leg cutter. Pace, bounce, movement...it had it all. Got the edge of Mohammad Rizwan but the keeper Hasan Nurul Sohan, who had worked so hard in the last couple of years to control his emotions -by his own admission he was a bit of a firecracker, prone to emotively lit up, couldn't hold himself.
'A huge mistake, regulation catch' Former Kiwii keeper Ian Smith would make the highlights package very difficult to watch for Sohan. He could have just taken a step to his right to take it, instead, he lunged and dives right into trouble. The ball popped out to trust anguish in Taskin. Next ball, a top-edged six of course. Life ...
The catch dropped Rizwan by the keeper of Taskin's bowling and the very next ball he top edges it for a six.
Bangladesh had a promising start early on in the innings with 70 runs at the halfway point however, They fell apart completely in the second half of the innings. Shanto played a good hand with his 50 no other batter supported him at any point. Shaheen Shah who started the competition slowly is now getting back into rhythm. He bowled a brilliant spell picking up four wickets. Bowlers did their job for Pakistan it is up to the batters to take them home and take them to the semifinals.
The left-arm quickly pick up four wickets in his spell. He mixed up slower ones and yorkers brilliantly. He is destroying the Bangladesh lower order.
Shaheen Shah Afridi bowls a brilliant slow ball yorker to Mossedak cleaning his stumps. Bangladesh is losing their way.
Sriram Veera: This time around the third umpire who seemed in such a hurry to rule Shakib Al Hasan out took his time. He saw Mohammad Wasim Jr had let slip the ball before he broke the stumps at the non-strikers end. There was no question about Afif Hossain making it back in time. He wasn’t. But Wasim Jr gathered the throw but as he went towards the stumps, he only grasped thin air and a lot of wood. The ball had long popped out.
Sriram Veera: Shanto had just charged out to deposit him for a four. No problem, Iftikhar has it covered. Next ball, the ball gripped between thumb and forefinger, he slid it out gently. Out popped the ball like a dab of anaesthesia. Shanto had rushed out for the big hit and was way too early for the ball that gently winked on to the stumps. Iftikhar would pump his fist and stroll. He doesn’t show much emotion does he? Affectionately called Chachu by the fans, he has been shutting down mouths this tournament. Pre-tournament form during Asia Cup and such had the critics baying for his head, but he has been the best batsman for Pakistan thus far.
Shanto trying to force the issue perishes to Iftikhar. He made 54. Bangladesh is looking in trouble at 92/4