The run-out occurred in the 39th over when Mohammad Rizwan pushed back a ball towards Agha at the non-striker’s end off Mehidy’s bowling. Agha looked at first to move out of the way, as Mehidy tried to field the ball and the pair got into a slight tangle. Agha, while still well outside his crease, then tried to pick the ball up, presumably to hand it over to the bowler. But Mehidy was first to it, and he swiftly turned and got a direct hit in with an underarm throw. Mehidy and the Bangladesh fielders appealed immediately. Agha threw his arms up in the air and soon his equipment once he saw the on-field umpire Tanvir Ahmed call for the third umpire’s decision. Kumar Dharmasena, the third umpire, gave it out after seeing the replay and said the “batsman is out of the ground at the time of the wickets” [being broken].
Agha left the field gesturing angrily, dismissed ultimately for 64 off 62 balls. Rizwan played peacemaker in the incident as the Bangladesh fielders charged towards Agha. The exchange lasted less than a minute, but it drew cheers from the crowd.
After the game, Agha spoke about that fraught period of play. “What happened after the dismissal, it was heat of the moment. Regarding the dismissal though, what he [Mehidy] did, if he thinks it is right, it is right. But I would have done things differently.”
Agha’s dismissal broke his 109-run fourth-wicket stand with Rizwan, who was caught at deep midwicket two balls later, six runs short of a half-century. The pair had steadied Pakistan after they lost three wickets for 18 runs following a 103-run opening stand. Agha’s dismissal triggered a collapse of 7 for 43 as Pakistan slipped from 231 for 3 to 274 all out.
Bangladesh had won the first ODI by eight wickets in the three-match series.