Bangladesh won their first-ever gold medal at the Asian Games in http://www.senore.com/Cricket/Afghanistan-c745 by 5 wickets with 3 balls to spare.
Bangladesh succeeded in restricting Afghanistan to 118 – 8, but were caught up in some anxious moments during their reply.
The Afghan side made it into the final after inflicting a shock defeat on favourites http://www.senore.com/Cricket/Pakistan-c755 during their encounter, which left Pakistan with the bronze medal. After defeating Afghanistan in the final to win the gold, the Bangladeshi cricket team’s coach
stated that he hoped the Afghanistan cricket team will celebrate too as they deserved to win the silver medal.
Muhammad Shabbir of Bangladesh hit successive sixes in the 19th over to propel http://www.senore.com/Cricket/Bangladesh-c747 to a well deserved win. From Afghanistan, the major contribution came from Muhammad Asghar who scored 38 off 36 balls and 25 runs from Shabbir Ahmed.
Shabbir with a score of 33 not out propelled Bangladesh to victory after it was left needing 19 runs in the last two overs. However Shabbir’s fantastic display of batting saw Bangladesh score 17 runs of the penultimate over bowled by Karim http://www.senore.com/Cricket/Khan-c71319 Sadiq of
Afghanistan.
“Afghanistan fought really hard, but it's exciting for us that we have won our first ever gold medal at the Asian Games,” Shabbir was quoted to have said after the match.
Earlier in the tournament, the Afghanistan cricket team emerged to be a dominant force after eliminating favourites Pakistan from the tournament after some inspiring words of wisdom from their coach http://www.senore.com/Cricket/Rashid-Latif-c84084.
Latif, who is also a former wicket keeper of the Pakistan cricket team was rumoured to have sent hand written notes to all the members and players of the Afghanistan cricket team before their match against the mercurial Pakistani cricket team in order to
boost their morale.
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