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Asia Cup 2025 9th Match: Bangladesh Won By 8 Runs, M Rahman’s 3 Wickets
Updated - 17-SEP-2025 10:10 IST
On 16 September, in the ninth match of the 2025 Asia Cup, Bangladesh and Afghanistan played in Abu Dhabi. Bangladesh beat Afghanistan by 8 runs. Mohmmed Rahman took 3 wickets. Bangladesh is still alive in the race for the Super 4.
Match Summary
S Hasan and T Hasan's massive innings, Bangladesh scored 154
After winning the toss, Bangladesh came to bat and their openers were given a strong start. Saif Hasan and Tanzid Hasan built a partnership of 63 runs in the powerplay for a 1-wicket loss. Saif Hasan scored 30 runs, and Tanzid Hasan scored a half-century, 52 runs.
After Saif Hasan was out, the captain came, but did not score too many runs. T Hridoy scored 26 runs. In the end, Nurul Hasan scored 12 runs in just 6 balls with a strike rate of 200, taking the total to 154.
On the bowling side, Rashid Khan and Noor Ahmed took 2 wickets each, Aomrazai took 1 wicket.
Afghanistan's batters struggle against Bangladesh’s aggressive bowling, and Afghanistan is all out for 146 runs.
Chasing 155, Afghanistan's bad start lost the first wicket as S Atal was ducked by N Ahmed. Rahmanullah Gurbaz scored 35 runs, with Ibrahim Zadran scoring 5 runs. In the power play, Afghanistan scored just 26 runs with 2 wickets lost.
G Nabi and M Nabi scored 16 and 15 runs. Azmatullah Omarzai scored 30 runs, a massive inning with a strike rate of 180+, giving some hope to Afghanistan after 4 4-wicket losses. In the end, Rashid Khan and N Ahmed gave cameo roles with a strike rate of 180+, but Afghanistan lost by just 8 runs.
Bangladesh bowling report: Mohammed Rahman showed why he is the premier bowler of Bangladesh; he took 3 important wickets. With him, N Ahmed, T Ahme, and R Hassain took 2-2 wickets.
Bangladesh is Still Alive In The Race Of Super 4, but Afghanistan has a better chance To Qualify
After this win, Bangladesh has to play all 3 group league matches. They pay 3 matches, with 2 wins and 1 loss. Their net run rate is -0.270, and they still have a chance to qualify for the Super 4 stage.
On the other side, this loss of Afghanistan was not as hurt for them due to a better run rate than Bangladesh. Afghanistan has the remaining group matches against Sri Lanka on 18 September. This will be the deciding match for both Afghanistan and Bangladesh. If Afghanistan wins, Bangladesh will be eliminated; if Afghanistan loses, Bangladesh will qualify.