Match Details
And with that Pakistan defeat Bangladesh by 8 wickets as they chased down the modest total with less than two overs to spare. They take an unassailable lead (2-0) in this three-match series and will be backing themselves to clean sweep the Tigers at their home ground in the coming fixture.
Pakistan started the run chase with a bang as Rizwan belted Mahedi for a boundary on the first ball to get the chase going. Suddenly, the Fizz came into the attack and rattled the openers with his brilliant variations. He scalped Babar on just 1 run to push Pakistan on the back foot.
Rizwan and Fakhar took calculated risks and built a valuable partnership of 85 to take the game within arms reach. Both the batters started slowly and took their time to read the conditions. Once these two got set, they started playing freely and picked the gaps to perfection. Fakhar Zaman played the conditions extremely well and fittingly hit the winning runs for Pakistan.
Rizwan wanted to finish the game early and in-process lost his wicket to the young leggie, Animul Hasan. It was a horrible outing for Bangladesh on the fielding front as they kept dropping sitters after sitters to hand the victory on the plate to the Pakistanis.