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Pakistan players celebrate a wicket during the second ODI against Bangladesh at the Shere Bangla National Stadium in Dhaka, Bangladesh, March 13, 2026. \u2014 X\/@TheRealPCBPakistan post 274 after Maaz, Farhan give blazing start.All-rounder Maaz Sadaqat earns Player of the Match award.Final ODI between Pak-Ban to be played on March 15.<\/p>\n
All-rounder Maaz Sadaqat starred with a fiery fifty and bowling figures of 3\/23 as Pakistan defeated Bangladesh by 128 runs in the rain-affected second ODI at the Sher-e-Bangla National Cricket Stadium on Friday.<\/p>\n
Set to chase a revised target of 243 in 32 overs, the home side could accumulate 114 before getting bowled out in 23.3 overs.<\/p>\n
Initially set to chase 275 in 50 overs, the hosts got off to a shaky start to the pursuit as they lost three wickets inside five overs with just 15 runs on the board.<\/p>\n
Litton Das and Towhid Hridoy took Bangladesh’s total to 27\/3 in 6.3 before rain intervened, and the action remained halted for more than two hours.<\/p>\n
Following the resumption, Das and Hridoy launched a brief counterattack on the Pakistan bowlers, raising 58 runs off 47 deliveries before Sadaqat broke the threatening partnership by dismissing the former.<\/p>\n
Das remained the top-scorer for Bangladesh with a spirited 41 off 33 deliveries, laced with four fours and two sixes.<\/p>\n
His dismissal sparked a collapse, which saw Bangladesh lose four more wickets at an alarming rate, including that of set batter Hridoy (28), and consequently slipped to 103\/8 in 19.4 overs.<\/p>\n
Haris Rauf then swept away Bangladesh’s toothless batting tail and rounded up a comprehensive victory for the Green Shirts.<\/p>\n
Sadaqat and Rauf co-led Pakistan’s bowling charge, taking three wickets each, followed by skipper Shaheen Shah Afridi with two, while Mohammad Wasim Jr and Faheem Ashraf chipped in with one apiece.<\/p>\n
Bangladesh captain Mehidy Hasan Miraz’s decision to field first backfired as the touring side amassed 274 before getting bowled out in their 47.3 overs.<\/p>\n
Pakistan got off to a blazing start to their innings as their openers, Sahibzada Farhan and Maaz, put together 103 runs off just 77 deliveries.<\/p>\n
Captain Miraz eventually gave Bangladesh the much-needed breakthrough by dismissing Maaz, who remained the top-scorer for Pakistan with a blistering 75 off 46 deliveries with the help of six fours and five sixes.<\/p>\n
Pakistan then lost two more wickets in quick succession as Farhan and top-order batter Shamyl Hussain fell victim to Taskin Ahmed and Nahid Rana, respectively, thus bringing the total down to 122\/3 in 19.3 overs.<\/p>\n
Following the back-to-back blows, Agha joined wicketkeeper batter Mohammad Rizwan in the middle, and the duo reinstated Pakistan into a commanding position by putting together a 109-run partnership for the fourth wicket.<\/p>\n
The century-plus stand had a bizarre end as Agha was run out by Bangladesh captain Miraz while he was helping him pick up the ball standing just outside the crease at the non-striker’s end.<\/p>\n
Agha walked back in disgust after scoring 64 off 62 deliveries, featuring seven fours and two sixes.<\/p>\n
Rizwan followed suit in the same over and remained a notable run-getter for the Green Shirts with a 59-ball 44.<\/p>\n
His dismissal sparked an astonishing collapse as Pakistan lost their remaining five wickets for 43 runs and thus failed to breach the 300-run mark, which appeared achievable at the start.<\/p>\n
Rishad Hossain spearheaded Bangladesh’s bowling charge with three wickets, followed by Miraz with two, while Nahid Rana, Mustafizur Rahman and Taskin Ahmed made one scalp apiece.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Pakistan players celebrate a wicket during the second ODI against Bangladesh at the Shere Bangla National Stadium in…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":474611,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[34],"tags":[1721,101,56,54,55],"class_list":["post-474610","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-cricket","tag-cricket","tag-sports","tag-uk","tag-united-kingdom","tag-unitedkingdom"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/474610","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=474610"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/474610\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/474611"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=474610"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=474610"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=474610"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}