Asia Cup 2025, PAK vs BAN: Haris Rauf’s inspired 3/33 has helped Pakistan to restrict Bangladesh to 124/9 from 20 overs. Chasing 136 runs, Bangladesh kept losing wickets in match 17 of the Asia Cup 2025 at the Dubai International Cricket Stadium in Dubai on Thursday. With the result, Pakistan have qualified for the final and will play India on Sunday.
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Saim Ayub picks up Jaker Ali, Bangladesh six down. With cameos from Mohammad Haris 31(23) and Mohammad Nawaz 25(15), Pakistan has managed 135/8 from 20 overs. Earlier, Bangladesh skipper Jaker Ali won the toss and opted to bowl first against Salman Agha’s Pakistan. The former in the previous game have won against Sri Lanka to eliminate them from the tournament; meanwhile, the latter have been soundly thrashed at the same venue.
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Teams:
Bangladesh (Playing XI): Saif Hassan, Parvez Hossain Emon, Towhid Hridoy, Shamim Hossain, Jaker Ali(w/c), Nurul Hasan, Mahedi Hasan, Rishad Hossain, Taskin Ahmed, Tanzim Hasan Sakib, Mustafizur Rahman
Pakistan (Playing XI): Sahibzada Farhan, Fakhar Zaman, Saim Ayub, Salman Agha(c), Hussain Talat, Mohammad Haris(w), Mohammad Nawaz, Faheem Ashraf, Shaheen Afridi, Haris Rauf, Abrar Ahmed
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Match EndedAsia Cup, 2025 – Super Four – Match 5
Pakistan
135/8 (20.0)
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Bangladesh
124/9 (20.0)
Match Ended ( Day – Super Four – Match 5 )
Pakistan beat Bangladesh by 11 runs
Bangladesh is known for its left-arm spinners so how did leggie Rishad Hossain emerge as a force?
Rishad Hossain celebrates after snapping a wicket. (AP/PTI)
Nilphamari nourishes indigo, not cricketers. The district, where once the British tortured labourers to cultivate ‘Neel’, or blue gold, lies only 356 kilometres north of Dhaka. The journey, though, would take nearly eight hours, cutting through the congested traffic and sinuous roads. Ten kilometres from the district centre is Nijpara, a dot in a speck, home of Bangladesh wrist-spinner Rishad Hossain.
It is this geographic aloofness from the national and cricketing capital that nurtured the growth of the rarest cricketing specimen in the country, the leg-spinner. In a country fixated with left-arm spinners, only two specialists leg-spinners have donned the colours of the country, Wahidul Gani and Jobair Hussain, before him. A part-time leg-spinner Alok Kapali grabbed a Test hat-trick, the first by his countrymen, but leg-spin was the art of outliers in Bangladesh.