DARWIN
\nPakistan Shaheens fell five runs short of the 296-run target as the second four-day match against Bangladesh \u2018A\u2019 finished in a thrilling manner on Monday at the DXC Arena in Darwin, Australia.
\nThe pendulum kept swinging all day as Bangladesh \u2018A\u2019 bowlers took the required six wickets, striking at regular intervals, while Shaheens\u2019 batters dug deep, eventually falling five runs short. The fourth day\u2019s play saw 56.2 overs bowled while Shaheens scored 154 runs. Bangladesh \u2018A\u2019 skipper Mahmudul Hasan Joy led the team from the front with a match-winning five-wicket haul with his figures reading 5-21 in 13 overs.
\nAt the beginning of the day, Shaheens required 160 runs to win with Haseebullah and Tayyab Tahir on the crease. Haseebullah (51, 120b, 7x4s) departed after adding seven runs to his overnight total of 44. At this point, Tayyab (43, 97b, 3x4s) and Omair Bin Yousuf (45, 103b, 4x4s) joined forces to stitch a dogged 65-run sixth-wicket partnership off 21 overs before the former succumbed to Mahmudul in 66th over.
\nOmair\u2019s resistance too came to an end some 57 balls later when he was caught by Mollah off Mahmudul with Mohammad Ali on the other end and Shaheens requiring 65 runs to win. Khurram Shahzad and Ali produced a spirited eight-wicket stand of 57 runs which came off 93 balls keeping Bangladesh \u2018A\u2019 at bay.
\nMahmudul cleaned up Ali, who had scored 21 off 63 balls hitting four fours, with Shaheens still eight runs away from win. Seven balls later Khurram\u2019s 57-ball rearguard, yielding 28 valuable runs with the help of three fours and one six, was ended by Mahmudul.
\nFaisal Akram faced seven balls for his solitary run before he was bowled by Hasan Murad to give Bangladesh \u2018A\u2019 series-levelling victory. Mahmudul was aided by Rejaur Rehman Raja and Hasan Murad who returned figures of 3-85 and 2-62 respectively.
\nScores in brief
\nBangladesh \u2018A\u2019 won by five runs
\nBangladesh \u2018A\u2019 258 all out, 67.3 overs (Mahmudul Hasan Joy 69, Aich Mollah 55, Mahidul Islam Ankon 31, Parvez Hossain Emon 30; Khurram Shahzad 3-69, Kamran Ghulam 2-6, Kashif Ali 2-21, Faisal Akram 2-87) and 216 all out, 70.1 overs (Mahmudul Hasan Joy 65, Aich Mollah 58, Shahadat Hossain 33; Mohammad Ali 6-63, Khurram Shahzad 3-67, Faisal Akram 1-51)
\nPakistan Shaheens 179 all out, 67.2 overs (Kamran Ghulam 48, Tayyab Tahir 30, Umar Amin 25; Ripon Mondol 4-71, Rejaur Rehman Raja 3-33, Hasan Murad 2-32) and 290 all out, 93.2 overs (Sahibzada Farhan 68, Haseebullah 51, Omair Bin Yousuf 45, Tayyab Tahir 43; Mahmudul Hasan Joy 5-21, Rejaur Rehman Raja 3-85, Hasan Murad 2-62)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
DARWIN Pakistan Shaheens fell five runs short of the 296-run target as the second four-day match against Bangladesh \u2018A\u2019 finished in a thrilling manner on Monday at the DXC Arena in Darwin, Australia. The pendulum kept swinging all day as Bangladesh \u2018A\u2019 bowlers took the required six wickets, striking at regular intervals, while Shaheens\u2019 batters …<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":68039,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-68014","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/nabanews.pk\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/68014","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/nabanews.pk\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/nabanews.pk\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nabanews.pk\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nabanews.pk\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=68014"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/nabanews.pk\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/68014\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":68051,"href":"https:\/\/nabanews.pk\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/68014\/revisions\/68051"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nabanews.pk\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/68039"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/nabanews.pk\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=68014"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nabanews.pk\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=68014"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nabanews.pk\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=68014"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}