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01
May
Bangladesh overcome by Pakistan
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Scorecard:

Pakistan: 172 for 3 (20 overs)

(Kamran Akmal 73 off 55 balls, Salman Butt 73 off 46 balls, Shakib 2 for 27)

Bangladesh: 151 for 7 (20 overs)

(Ashraful 65 off 49 balls, Shakib 47 off 31 balls, Sami 3 for 29, Aamer 2 for 16)

Pakistan went off the block very quickly. They erased any bad memories of the IPL mockery and were right there at the top, where they’d ended at in the last World Cup. Their openers put up 142 in 15.5 overs and there onwards there was not much left for Bangladesh to do. However, to their credit they reined in the Pakistan batsmen at the end to finish at a smaller score of 172. Shakib ul Hassan was at his best once again with the ball.

Shakib came back later with the bat to share a rollicking partnership with the master batsman Ashraful. This gave Bangladesh something to remember from this match. The Partnership produced 91 runs from 9.5 overs. However, the range and depth of Pakistani bowling was too much and they never let Bangladesh breathe easily.

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01
May
India calmly beat Afghanistan
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Scorecard:

Afghanistan: 115 for 8 (20 overs)

(Noor Ali 50 off 48 balls, Asghar 30 off 33 balls, Nehra 3 for 19, Praveen 2 for 14)

India: 116 for 3 (14.5 overs)

(Murali Vijay 48 off 46 balls, Yuvraj 23* off 22 balls, Hamid 1 for 8, Samiullah 1 for 11)

Ashish Nehra broke Afghanistan’s back right away taking 2 wickets in the first couple of overs and then came back to claim Noor Ali, their mainstay. Afghanistan didn’t put up much on display. Except for one partnership of 68 off 11 overs there was nothing to talk of. And if your best partnership just manages a run-a-ball, then you’re not playing T20. However full credit to Noor and Asghar to be able to stand up to the good Indian bowling attack.

India were not stretched so they scored leisurely without exerting themselves too much and arrived home safe with just 3 wickets down and more than 5 overs to spare. Murali Vijay made good use of the opportunity presented to him and Yuvraj shrugged off bad memories of the IPL to score some runs.

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