- Pakistan's hopes remain intact, Bangladesh team is out
Kolkata. After the brilliant bowling of Shaheen Shah Afridi, opener Fakhar Zaman made a comeback with a brilliant half-century as Pakistan defeated Bangladesh by seven wickets in the World Cup match here on Tuesday and kept alive the faint hope of reaching the semi-finals. Thanks to the Shaheen-led fast bowling attack, Pakistan won the toss and put Bangladesh to bat, bowling out just 204 runs in 45.1 overs. Pakistan won by scoring 205 runs for three wickets in 32.3 overs, thanks to Fakhar Zaman's 81 runs in 74 balls with seven sixes and three fours and Abdullah Shafiq's half-century of 68 runs in 69 balls (nine fours, two sixes). Seeing the brilliant batting of both, it seemed that both of them would finish the match but the 128-run partnership between them for the first wicket was ended by Bangladesh off-spinner Mehdi Hasan Miraj (3 wickets for 60 runs in nine overs). , who took all three wickets in Pakistan's innings.
This is Pakistan's third win in seven matches and it has won after losing four matches, keeping its slim hopes of semi-finals alive. Now they will face New Zealand on November 4 and the team's league campaign will end with the match against England on November 11. Bangladesh thus suffered its sixth consecutive defeat, making captain Shakibul Hasan's team the first team to be officially eliminated from the 10-team World Tournament despite two matches remaining. Now Bangladesh will face Sri Lanka and Australia in the last two matches.
Pakistan's new look opening pair started cautiously. After this, the pair started dominating the Bangladeshi bowlers and scored 52 runs without losing any wicket in the powerplay. After this, both of them adopted an aggressive stance and Zaman hit a 99 meter high six at square leg on Taskin Ahmed.
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