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Wed Feb 18 BAN 267 (50 ov) AFG 162 (42.5 ov) Pool A, Manuka Oval, Canberra W L Mushfiqur Rahim

First things first - Well played Afghanistan, Welcome to the world stage. Mushfiqur Rahman (71) & Shakib Al Hasan (63) came up at a tricky stage for Bangladesh and upped the tempo helping their side post a good total while the Afghanistan bowlers Shapoor Zadran & Mirwais Ashraf bowled exceptional spells. The nerves showed when the Afghan batsmen took centre stage and they were in all sorts of trouble with the score at 3/3 in 3 overs. Their first boundary made its debut in the 10th over. The Bangladesh bowlers performed well as a unit and Mashrafe Mortaza bowled exceptionally well to take 3 wickets. Bowling out Afghanistan for 162 the Bengal Tigers got so excited that they did a victory lap! Hold on boys. This is not the final!

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