http://www.senore.com/Cricket/Bangladesh-c747 bags gold at Asian Games, Pakistan emerges with bronze
Guangzhou Asian Games witnessed Bangladesh emerging as the first ever winner at the inaugural final of Men’s T20 event and shattering http://www.senore.com/Cricket/Afghanistan-c745’s dreams to name the title. The final match of the T20 event was played on Friday at Guanggong Cricket Stadium.
Pakistan prevailed as bronze medal holder after an emphatic victory against Sri Lanka upon the same venue.
In Pakistan’s match against Sri Lanka, it was the unbeaten performance of http://www.senore.com/Cricket/Khalid-Latif-c71261, the skipper of the team who scored 53 off 42 balls that culminated in overtaking the total of 135 put by the rivals on the board. Pakistan chased the required targets
while still having 6 wickets in hand and 2 overs to go from the allowed limit of 20 overs. Khalid, the only capped player in the team hit four decisive sixes to take back hold of the game, three of which went in one over bowled by Malinga Bandra, the leg spinner
of Sri Lankan side. Bilawal Bhatti, another impressive hitter, remained unbeaten despite of playing an impressively aggressive game. He made 24 runs off 14 balls. His total also included the winning hit for a six off the ball thrown by Nuwan Zoysa.
Victory in the match played for third position restored some of the pride of Pakistani side which had been tipped as favourite for the event but eventually lost an important match (semi-final) against Afghanistan on Thursday. In women’s event Pakistan ended
up bagging a gold while Bangladesh claimed second position on the podium. Sharing his comments after defeating Sri Lanka, Khalid said: “It was important to stay at the wicket till the end, something I could not do against Afghanistan, but managed it today
against a top side like http://www.senore.com/Cricket/Sri-Lanka-c758. Of course we would have wanted to win the gold medal, but at least we will go home with a bronze.”
For Sri Lanka, the previous two matches had been fraught with difficulties where its batting order completely let the side down; however, the team began confidently against http://www.senore.com/Cricket/Pakistan-c755. While choosing to bat first after winning the toss, Nuwan Zoysa and Jeevantha
Kulatunga put a respectable total of 52 runs for first partnership. However, fall of first wicket proved to be the faltering point for the side as after that none of the batsman, except Dilshan Munaweera (28) could go beyond the single digit score.
In Bangladesh versus Afghanistan match, Shabbir Rahaman Roman hit two impressive sixes right in the beginning, causing the score to increase with wide strides and culminating in a convincing win of his side with a loss of 5 wickets. The 17-year-old young
athlete put altogether 33 scores on the board and swung the match in favour of Bangladesh. The winners achieved the required target with three balls to spare. The success sparkled huge celebrations as overjoyed players thronged to the ground with national
flags in their hands.
Talking to the media personnel, the smiling skipper of Bangladesh cricket team, Mohammad Ashraful said: “We played like tigers today. This is the happiest day of our life.” Earlier, the team Afghanistan had also fought well as they chose to hang out despite
of putting a total of mere 118 runs on the board for loss of 8 wickets after winning the toss and choosing to bat.
The enthusiastic players of Afghanistan cricket team had turned stone-faced after the loss. While talking to the media, http://www.senore.com/Cricket/Asghar-Stanikzai-c1094, the top scorer of the team with a total of 38 on the board said, “The Afghanistan people are maybe very sad. The silver
medal is not a big medal but it was a good fight.” Afghanistan, which happens to be a non-test cricket playing nation had taken part in the world T20 held in the Caribbean this year. However, the team unfortunately narrowly missed qualifying for the 2011 World
Cup. The team is now being trained by ex-wicket keeper of Pakistan cricket team, http://www.senore.com/Cricket/Rashid-Latif-c84084, who has provided an impressive output so far.
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