The eights over was running in the match. Bangladesh lost three wickets and under pressure chasing the 155-run target against Afghanistan in the first T20I on Friday. Afghanistan's bowlers were in full control.

At that time, rain interrupted the match. The game started after some time. After that, Towhid Hridoy and Shamim Hossain took control of the match from the visiting bowlers. At the end of the match, Rashid Khan told about the bowling problem after the rain.

Fareed Ahmad took the wicket of Bangladesh captain Shakib Al Hasan after the rain. Shakib hit 3 fours and left after being caught for 18 runs. Hridoy hit a six in the last ball of that over. Hridoy-Shamim's power-hitting started from that six.

Hridoy and Shamim kept getting boundaries regularly from the bat and Bangladesh moved towards the target. After 21 runs in the 13th over, the match started to tilt towards Bangladesh. The average runs required per over dropped from nine and a half to below eight.

The Afghan bowlers were not able to control the line-length as well. They were bowling wide balls, a wide ball turned into a four in that over of 21 runs.

After the match, Rashid Khan said, “The ground was very wet to be honest, and the strength we have, 50% was taken away from us with the wet ball. But we still bowled well, overall a great effort by the team.”

Before that, Afghanistan went down to bat and collected 154 runs. The highest contribution to this capital was Mohammad Nabi. This experienced cricketer remained unbeaten on 54 runs off 40 balls. In the end, Azmatullah Omarzai played an attacking innings of 33 runs off 18 balls.

On batting, Rashid said, “With the bowling unit we have, that total was enough but in T20 one innings can take away the game from you. If the top-order was a bit more careful, we could have got 20-25 more. [on Nabi] Great to see the way he played, senior pro, he set an example and he took it deep. It was not an unplayable pitch and the way he played was amazing and so happy for him.”