Journalism of Courage
Bangladesh survived a minor scare against the Afghanistan middle order to take a 105-run victory over their Asian counterparts after a superb first spell from seamer Mashrafe Mortaza. (Source: AP)
The tigers fans were out in full force as Bangladesh took on a spirited Afghanistan contingent. (Source: AP)
Hamid Hassan and the rest of the Afghan attack had a good start as Bangladesh found themselves 4 down at 119. (Source: AP)
All batsmen apart from Tamim Iqbal got starts who was out after scoring 19. (Source: AP)
Anamul Haque got a solid 29 while Sarkar and Mahmudullah got 28 and 23 respectively. But no one was able to convert the starts into big scores. (Source: AP)
The duo of Shakib Al Hasan and Mushfiqur Rahim put up a combined score of 134 to take the game away from Afghanistan and post a total of 267. (Source: AP)
After a disastrous start which saw Afghanistan lose 3 wickets in 3 overs for just 3 runs, Samiullah Shenwari and Nawroz Mangal came in to stabilize the innings. (Source: AP)
Mohammad Nabi then came in and played a 43-ball 44-run innings to keep Afghanistan in the hunt. (Source: AP)
At the end of the day, nothing was going to stop Bangladesh from taking all the points from Canberra as they crushed Afghanistan by 105 runs. (Source: AP)
