Shariful Islam's last over required 11 runs, Mohammad Saifuddin took a simple catch of Junaid Siddique at cover on the second ball. However, Ayan Khan returned in the next ball, playing an innings of 25 runs off 17 balls. Junaid Siddique also caught the next ball. Chasing Bangladesh's 158, United Arab Emirates were bowled out for 151 with 2 balls to spare. After Afif Hossain's great batting, Mehdi Hasan Miraj's bowling and fielding skills, Bangladesh had to gain a lot of momentum to beat the United Arab Emirates in the first T20I in Dubai.
UAE came very close by managing a collapse in the middle in the run chase. Although the fielding in the first part of the innings was quite good, Bangladesh lost again. Lytton gives four in the misfield, Mosaddek also leaves the catch before Saifuddin. The UAE batsmen, however, could not make good use of that opportunity, but Karthik Miyappan and Junaid also struggled with the 16-year-old Ayaan.
UAE unfortunately lost the first wicket in the run chase. Chirag Suri played a straight drive off Shariful, before breaking off the stumps on the non-strike edge, it touched the hands of the bowler. Muhammad Wasim, the best batsman of the United Arab Emirates, was out of the crease at that time. Losing that wicket, the hosts made 43 runs in the powerplay.
Despite losing the wicket of Wasim, Suri was moving forward with Aryan Lakra. Their pair was broken by Miraz, Suri who scored 39 runs from 24 balls was stumped while playing in front of him. In the next over, Mirage returned Lakra too. Miraj also contributed to the next wicket of the UAE. Captain CP Rizwan's catch at backward point off Mustafiz was taken by Miraz with a dive. Losing 3 wickets out of 17 runs, the rhythm of the United Arab Emirates fell well.
Basil Hamid, Bhritya Arvind or Zawar Farid—none could do the job of rebuilding the innings. There are two great fieldings in this. Arvind's return catch was also taken by Miraj with a dive to the left and Farid was run out by Afif's direct throw from deep square leg. When Farid got out in the 15th over, UAE were 102. Means they lost 5 wickets within 25 runs. The hosts then fought around Ian.
Earlier, after losing the toss, Bangladesh went down to 158, mainly due to Afif Hossain's 55-ball 77-run innings with captain Nurul Hasan's 25-ball 35-run innings. After losing 5 wickets for 77 runs, the duo remained unbroken for the sixth wicket of Bangladesh's record 81 runs.
Sabbir Rahman and Mehdi Hasan Miraji came to the center of interest as the opening pair. In the second over, Sabbir was caught at square leg without scoring a short ball from Sabir Ali. Liton Das, who returned from injury, got off to a positive start but was caught by Ayan while sweeping the short length ball. Miraj, who was uncomfortable with the movement of the ball in the beginning, could not go far, he caught Farid's short ball for 12 runs from 14 balls.
Losing 3 wickets for 35 runs, the scorecard picture of Bangladesh could have been worse. Afif got life by standing on 2 runs. Make good use of that opportunity. 42 runs were scored in the powerplay, but Yasir Ali and Mosaddek Hossain returned quickly, leaving Afif. A victim of Yasir Miyappan's googly after returning from injury, Mosaddeq was stumped by the same bowler. Afif got another life after standing on 63, and the UAE also lost the chance to run out Nurul in the 15th over. Bangladesh started the death over with 105 runs for 5 wickets and scored 53 runs in the last 5 overs.
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