Nasum Ahmed's 4 for 10, Litton 60 take Bangladesh 1-0 up in the series

Afghanistan were reduced to 20 for 4 in the run chase, eventually folding up for 94

Bangladesh 155 for 8 (Litton 60, Afif 25, Farooqi 2-27) beat Afghanistan 94 (Zadran 27, Nasum 4-10, Shoriful 3-29) by 61 runs

Nasum’s opening spell was the stuff of dreams for Bangladesh. He became the first from this country to take a four-for in the powerplay of a T20I, and the first to take the first four wickets in it. And before all this, there was the missed chance off the second ball of the Afghanistan innings.

But Nasum made amends just two deliveries later when he had Rahmanullah Gurbaz caught by the debutant Yasir Ali at cover-point for a duck. And in spite of Shahriar’s drop in Nasum’s next over, the latter came back brilliantly, removing Hazratullah Zazai with a top-edge to mid-off. One ball later, Nasum significantly slowed down his stock delivery, only for debutant Darwish Rasooli to be bowled trying a slog-sweep too early.

Full report to follow…