Pakistan Cricket team won the third T20 with accurate response and mind game played by Muhammad Nawaz on the Final ball of the final over against Bangladesh captain Mahmudullah by hitting four runs.
Bangladesh who’s captain Mahmudullah who won third consecutive toss and elected to bat first put the total of 124 runs on the loss of 7 wickets in 20 overs. Muhammad Naim 47, Shamim Hossain 22 and Afif Hossain 20 was the key scorer from Bangladesh while Muhammad Waseem Junior and Usman Qadir took two wickets each and Shanwaz Dhani and Haris Rauf took one wicket each for Pakistan Cricket team.
Bangladesh total in third T20 was much better than the previous two matches and team fought well to grab the victory in the third T20 but there were Muhammad Nawaz who assessed mind game of Mahmudullah intelligently.
Mahmudullah (1-10-3) who got two wickets on two balls and looking for third one to win the match failed on last ball and Nawaz hit him four runs to win the match from Bangladesh. Nobody can forgot the Six which was hit by Iftikhar Ahmad after Sarfraz and Haider Ali Wickets lost on two balls by Mahmudullah and that six made the match chase able for two run on last ball.
Muhammad Rizwan on his historical and consistent performance declared player of the series while Haider Ali declared player of the match and Mahmudullah who added the charm of T20 in his last over with three wickets won the award of most valuable player of the match.
Pakistan Captain Babar Azam thanked fans of Bangladesh who supported Pakistan team inside and outside the ground during T20 series and showed commitment that team Pakistan will go into the test series with the winning momentum that they have after winning the T20 series by 3-0.
Player of the Series Muhammad Rizwan (90 runs in three matches 40, 39 and 11)was very happy on winning the award and said “the happiest moment for you is that when you contributed well in the victory of your team and country which is inexpressible in words, the pitch was not easy but we planned to read the conditions and plan accordingly and we did it accurately”.
Haider Ali who scored 45 on 38 balls won the man of the match award, thanked to Rizwan guidelines who told him over to over plan and to stay till end to finish the match.
Score in Brief
Bangladesh Won the toss and bat first
124/7 Muhammad Naim 47, Shamim Hossain 22, Afif Hossain 20
Muhammad Waseem 2/15 Usman Qadir 2/35
Pakistan
127/5 Muhammad Rizwan 40, Haider Ali 45, Babar Azam 19
Mahmudullah 3/10
