Bangladesh team won the T20 series.🏏
By winning the T20 series, Bangladesh ended the three-format series against Afghanistan. Bangladesh started the series by defeating Afghanistan by 546 runs in the Test. After that, it was everyone's idea that Bangladesh will win the ODI very easily. Because no matter what they play in the other two formats, the Bangladesh team is a cause of fear for any big team in ODIs. Meanwhile, in the T20 series, everyone thought that Bangladesh would lose the series with Afghanistan. Because Afghanistan is a very strong team in T20. Afghanistan team is much ahead of Bangladesh team in T20 format. But everyone thought that, all equations changed in this Bangladesh Afghanistan series.
In the ODI format where the Bangladesh team is stronger than the Afghanistan team, Bangladesh lost the series badly to Afghanistan in that ODI. On the other hand, in the format where Bangladesh is weak and Afghanistan is strong, the opposite happened. In that T20 format, Bangladesh won the series against Afghanistan by 2-0. It can be said that the Bangladesh team is now moving towards playing well in T20. Bangladesh team has now won three consecutive series in T20. Bangladesh is now going a long way in T20 format.
In the last match of the T20 series, Bangladesh T20 team captain Shakib Al Hasan won the toss and decided to bowl first. Bangladeshi fast bowlers were in great form in bowling and spin bowlers also performed well. Taskin Ahmed took the wicket of Afghanistan's opener Rahmanullah Gurbaz in the first over. He took 3 wickets by spending 33 runs in four overs. And left-arm fast bowler Mustafizur Rahman took 2 wickets with 30 runs in 3 overs. Meanwhile, as a spin bowler, Shakib Al Hasan picked up 2 wickets with just 15 runs in 3 overs. Hasan Mahmud and Masum Ahmed could not pick up any wickets but bowled brilliantly. Due to rain, the 20 over game was reduced to 17 overs. At the end of the innings, in 17 overs, Afghanistan's collection stood at 116 runs. Due to rain, the target runs for the Bangladesh team in DLS method stood at 119 runs.
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In response, Liton Das and Afif Hossain shared a partnership of 67 runs. After Liton and Afif got out, Shakib Al Hasan and Tawheed Hridoy formed a small partnership and in the end Shakib and Shamim remained unbeaten and ended the game in 16 overs. Shakib Al Hasan, the world's best all-rounder, was the man of the match by picking up 18 runs in 11 balls and 2 wickets in 3 overs with the ball and he was also the best of the series.
Bangladesh has Asia Cup and ODI World Cup ahead. Bangladesh team has many speculations ahead of these two big events. Bangladesh is a very good team in ODIs and this team has confidence to beat good teams. However, this time Bangladesh team lost two consecutive ODI matches in Afghanistan series and it seemed that Bangladesh team will not be able to win again. But after losing two consecutive matches and winning the last match, Bangladesh became very confident and team Tigers won the T20 series trophy after losing two matches and winning three consecutive matches. A series win for the Bangladesh team will give them a lot of confidence for the upcoming Asia Cup and ODI World Cup.
