Bangladesh 565 (Mushfiqur 191, Naseem 3-93) and 30 for 0 (Zakir 15*) beat Pakistan 448 for 6 dec (Rizwan 171, Shakeel 141) and 146 (Rizwan 51, Mehidy 4-21, Shakib 3-44) by ten wickets
Young fast bowler Nahid Rana clocked up close to 150kmph to bowl Babar Azam, Shakib blocked his lines from both sides of the wicket and Mehidy hit his offbreaks to create tense moments and wicket-taking opportunities. .
After Pakistan limited Bangladesh to just 30 to win in the second session – led mainly by Mohammad Rizwan’s 51 – Bangladesh scored runs in 6.3 overs without any trouble.
Even though the ball was not spinning in the same way last evening, the Bangladesh fast bowlers managed to win the first session by picking five wickets. With Saim Ayub dismissed on the fourth day, Shan Masood fell early when he bundled Hasan Mahmud to the wicketkeeper. The on-field umpire initially ruled it out, but Bangladesh reviewed and saw the decision overturned after a spike on UltraEdge, leaving Masood unhappy again.
The score was 28 for 2 and it was 28 for 3 when Babar Azam completed his second delivery, narrowly wide of the keeper, but Litton Das could not hold on to the gap on the right and Babar survived with a pair.
He grew in confidence with some runs and boundaries, but Nahid saw his lack of footwork and orchestrated his downfall. He bowled Babar with regular short balls over 145km/h to push him on the back foot, and when he put one outside off, Babar’s feet didn’t move fast enough and far enough, and his drive resulted in 22 runs. a slide of wickets, halted only by a counter-attacking innings from Rizwan before the lunch break.
Saud Shakeel came forward and wasted Shakib’s chance but missed and was robbed of a duck. The patient Abdullah Shafique then gave up his wicket with just over three overs left at lunch. He attempted an unnecessary swing mid-game to give Shadman Islam the edge back. Two balls later, Mehidy pulled Salman Agha forward with a laugh and brought Shadman close with a sharp catch this time at left slip.
Rizwan, in the middle, hit four boundaries on both sides of the wicket with strong hands that wiped out part of the 50-run wicket by the time he got out. He attacked a tired Nahid with a hat-trick of fours and followed it up with a slog sweep in the next boundary which scored 26 runs off two overs. But he was forced to curb his enthusiasm with the dismissal of Salman and put on strike after the lunch break when Shaheen Shah Afridi was trapped in front by a Mehidy delivery that failed to explode.
Pakistan were 111 for 7 then, still trailing by six. They soon took the lead, but Naseem Shah gave a midwicket catch before Rizwan took it upon himself to build some sort of lead with his Test century. His strong style and sweep led to him getting a wicket when he bowled to Mehidy, who again trapped Mohammad Ali to wrap up the hosts.
Zakir Hasan and Shadman then ensured that Bangladesh got over the line unscathed. Zakir hit three fours in his 14th over and scored the winning runs with a sweep to the empty fine leg fence.
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