Asian Games 2010, Bangladesh breezes into semi finals of T20 men’s tournament
Bangladesh men’s team booked their place in the semi-final after they eased past Malaysia at Guangzhou, China in the Asian Games Twenty20 cricket league.
Bangladesh’s team consists of the national team as they registered their victory over Malaysia as they defeated them by 70 runs. The win means that http://www.senore.com/Cricket/Pakistan-c755 in the semi-final of the Asian Games cricket tournament.
The Test playing seeded team won the toss and chose to bat first. Bangladesh’s captain Mohammad Ashraful received a lot of appreciation from the small crowd gathered at the Guanggong International Cricket Stadium as he gave the most enthusiastic salute to
the curious spectators.
Bangladesh’s line up included the hard hitting One Day International (ODI) players Naeem Islam and their bowling attack included three spinners with http://www.senore.com/Cricket/Shahadat-Hossain-c2480 and Nazmul Hossain leading the attack.
Openers Mithun Ali (39 runs) and Nazim Uddin (20 runs) steered their team to a 150 score for the loss of seven wickets. Mithun was the top scorer as he smashed four boundaries and a six.
Captain Ashraful, who has played 55 Test matches and 163 ODIs, also contributed to the team’s batting innings with smashing a boundary to score 29 off 30 balls. Shabbir Rahaman also thrilled the 1200 occupied seats of the 5000 capacity in the stadium with
two hard hitting boundaries to score 24 off 21 balls.
http://www.senore.com/Cricket/Naeem-Islam-c2053, much to the disappointment of Bangladeshi fans, failed to create any magic on the crease as he was caught behind after facing two balls.
Malaysia looked to be in a good position in the second half as they restricted the Tigers to taking singles. Malaysian bowlers http://www.senore.com/Cricket/Manrick-Singh-c74272, and Nik Arifin took one wicket each and their star bowler was Shahrulnizam Yusof, who took four
wickets off 21 runs. Eszrafiq Azis did not have a successful bowling spell as he failed to pick up a wicket in his four overs.
Malaysia began their chase in the semi-final with a steady start as Suresh Navaratnam went up the order since their last win against http://www.senore.com/Cricket/Rakesh-Madhavan-c83672 tried to cruise their team to a safe place in the first five overs as
the only top scorer Sharif made 21 runs off 25 balls, which included two hard hitting sixes.
However, the wickets kept on tumbling after the openers were caught out. The wickets fell at regular intervals and the Tigers restricted the Malaysian players to taking singles or occasional twos as they failed to get to the target. Bangladesh bowled out
the Malaysian batting order in 19.4 overs after they scored 80 runs.
The star studded Bangladeshi side had a strong bowling attack with almost all the all rounder’s contributing to the fall of the wickets. Former Test skipper Ashraful claimed three wickets for five runs while Sohrawardi Shuvo took three for 15 runs.
http://www.senore.com/Cricket/Suhan-Kumar-c91680 Alagaratnam, who said that his side might have crumbled under the pressure that was felt playing “against a strong side like Bangladesh”.
He admitted that Malaysia’s bowling and fielding was commendable but they still need to focus on their batting and catching tactics.
The winning captain applauded his side. However, he said that the middle order needed to work better on slow and turning wickets. He showed immense confidence in his team and their ability to win their first gold for their country. Bangladesh is yet to win
a gold medal at the Asian Games in any sport.
Bangladesh would likely be facing http://www.senore.com/Cricket/Nepal-c2965.
Meanwhile, http://www.senore.com/Cricket/Afghanistan-c745 earlier today. Afghanistan won by eight wickets and has now qualified for the semi-finals. Afghanistan has set up a clash against Pakistan
as they would be vying for a place in the final.
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