MIRPUR, 17 Jun: Bangladesh beat Afghanistan by 546 runs on Saturday to record its biggest ever test victory in terms of runs.
\nIt\u2019s the third biggest victory in test cricket history in terms of runs, and Bangladesh appeared to do it easily.
\nFast bowler Taskin Ahmed claimed career-best figures of 4-37 as Afghanistan was dismissed for 115 on Day 4 after being set a daunting target of 662.
\nNajmul Hossain helped the hosts set the tone for the victory with hundreds in each innings, becoming the second Bangladesh batter to achieve that milestone.
\nBangladesh\u2019s biggest previous win was by 226 runs against Zimbabwe in 2005. The margin in Mirpur was lower only than England\u2019s 675-run win over Australia in 1928 and Australia\u2019s 562-run win over England at The Oval in 1934.
\nBangladesh\u2019s pace attack dominated at the ground which has tended to assist spin in the past. As well as the wickets tumbling, Afghanistan had to deal with two batters being unable to continue their innings after being hit by rising deliveries \u2014 including last batter Zahir Khan.
\n\u201cIt was amazing to see the way bowlers responded in this heat,\u201d Liton Das said after picking up a victory on his captaincy debut.
\n\u201cNow we can say we have a quality pace attack. The spinners also bowled well. It was a good team game but credit to Najmul Hossain, Zakir and Mominul. Najmul got two centuries which was not easy in this heat.\u201d
\nTaskin led the three-pronged pace attack, a rarity for Bangladesh at home, which claimed 14 wickets in the match.
\nBangladesh broke through in the third over on Day 4 when Nasir Jamal nicked to the wicketkeeper as fast bowler Ebadot Hossain (1-22) straightened one off the pitch to take the outside edge. Nasir added just one to his overnight tally to be out on 6.
\nAmid the resistance of Rahmat Shah, who made a team-high 30, Bangladesh\u2019s fast bowlers kept striking with left-arm paceman Shoriful Islam getting a double breakthrough in consecutive overs.
\nShoriful, who returned figures of 3-28, had Afsar Zazai (6) caught at gully with a short-length delivery and then dismissed Bahir Shah (7), who was substituted in when skipper Hashmatullah Shahidi (13) was unable to continue after being hit by a Taskin bouncer on Day 3.
\nTaskin then got into the act, breaking the defense of Rahmat, who was caught behind with Afghanistan on 91-6.
\nHe also got the better of Karim Janat (18) and Yamin Ahmadzai (1) to stand on the brink of his first five-wicket haul in an innings, but drama unfolded as last batter Zahir Khan survived twice in consecutive deliveries.
\nFirstly, he survived an appeal for caught behind when DRS showed no evidence of an edge, and then the next delivery rattled his stumps but was called a no-ball.
\nTwo balls later, he was hit on the elbow while trying to duck a short ball and had to retire hurt.
\n\u201cIt didn\u2019t go our way from the start of the match but we had some positives,\u201d Afghanistan captain Hashmatullah said. \u201cThe thing was we played after a long break in tests. We will learn much more as as we play test cricket.\u201d (AP)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
MIRPUR, 17 Jun: Bangladesh beat Afghanistan by 546 runs on Saturday to record its biggest ever test victory in terms of runs. It\u2019s the third biggest victory in test cricket history in terms of runs, and Bangladesh appeared to do it easily. Fast bowler Taskin Ahmed claimed career-best figures of 4-37 as Afghanistan was dismissed […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[10],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-218579","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-sports"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/arunachaltimes.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/218579","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/arunachaltimes.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/arunachaltimes.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/arunachaltimes.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/arunachaltimes.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=218579"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/arunachaltimes.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/218579\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/arunachaltimes.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=218579"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/arunachaltimes.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=218579"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/arunachaltimes.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=218579"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}