Pakistan humiliated! Crumble to lowest T20I total

Fast bowlers Taskin Ahmed and Mustafizur Rahman starred with the shot arsenic Bangladesh cruised to a seven-wicket triumph implicit Pakistan successful the archetypal T20I successful Dhaka connected Sunday. Chasing a humble 111, opener Parvez Hossain smashed an unbeaten 56 to seal triumph successful conscionable 15.3 overs and springiness the hosts a 1-0 pb successful the three-match series.Put into bat, Pakistan crumbled to their lowest T20I full against Bangladesh — 110 each retired successful 19.3 overs. Taskin returned figures of 3 for 22, portion Mustafizur was miserly with 2 for 6 successful 4 overs. Pakistan’s erstwhile lowest against Bangladesh was 127/5 astatine the aforesaid venue successful 2021.

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Despite an aboriginal double-strike from debutant pacer Salman Mirza (2/23), who dismissed Tanzid Hasan and Litton Das cheaply, Bangladesh recovered swiftly.

Parvez and Towhid Hridoy (36) stitched unneurotic a important 73-run basal for the 3rd wicket to easiness the chase.Parvez was successful good form, hitting 5 sixes and 3 boundaries during his 39-ball knock, finishing unbeaten connected 56.

The triumph marked lone Bangladesh's 4th triumph implicit Pakistan successful 23 T20Is.Earlier, Pakistan endured a nightmare start, losing fractional their broadside for conscionable 46 by the eighth over. Saim Ayub (6), Mohammad Haris (4), skipper Salman Agha (3), Hasan Nawaz (0), and Mohammad Nawaz (3) each fell cheaply.

Fakhar Zaman top-scored with 44 disconnected 34 balls, including six fours and a six. He was doubly reprieved — connected 4 and 30 — earlier being tally retired aft a mix-up with Khushdil Shah. Shah (17) and Abbas Afridi (22) aboriginal added 33 runs for the seventh wicket to instrumentality Pakistan past the 100-run mark.

Reflecting connected the loss, skipper Salman Agha said: “It wasn’t capable connected the committee arsenic we mislaid wickets astatine regular intervals, which we person to speech astir earlier the 2nd game.”Litton Das acknowledged the situation of batting connected a dilatory pitch: “It’s not an casual wicket to bat on, but the mode we batted, it looked good. We took aboriginal wickets and that’s the cardinal point.”The 2nd and 3rd T20Is volition besides beryllium played successful Dhaka, connected Tuesday and Thursday, respectively.