Pakistan beat Bangladesh by 2 wickets

Sports Desk: Pakistan beat Bangladesh by 2 wickets in the first warm-up match of the ICC Champions Trophy at Edgbaston, Birmingham in England on Saturday.

Pakistan’s Fahim Ashraf finishes unbeaten on 64 off 30 balls. He smashed four fours and as many sixes. Hasan Ali gave him a good company and scored 27 off 15 balls. The duo added unbeaten 93 runs for the ninth wicket.

Earlier, Bangladesh placed a total of 341 runs by losing nine wickets after playing their stipulated 50 overs.

Opener Tamim Iqbal bagged a century of 102-run off 93 balls, featuring nine boundaries and four over boundaries while Imrul played an innings of 61 runs off 62 balls, involving eight boundaries.

Bangladesh team     
Imrul Kayes, Mahmudullah, Mashrafe Mortaza*, Mushfiqur Rahim†, Mustafizur Rahman, Rubel Hossain, Sabbir Rahman, Shafiul Islam, Shakib Al Hasan, Soumya Sarkar, Sunzamul Islam, Tamim Iqbal, Taskin Ahmed.

Pakistan team     
Ahmed Shehzad, Azhar Ali, Babar Azam, Fahim Ashraf, Fakhar Zaman, Haris Sohail, Hasan Ali, Imad Wasim, Junaid Khan, Mohammad Amir, Mohammad Hafeez, Sarfraz Ahmed*†, Shadab Khan, Shoaib Malik, Wahab Riaz.


risingbd/Dhaka/Feb 27, 2017/Porag/Nasim