Asia Cup 2025, PAK vs BAN LIVE Cricket Score Updates: Taskin Ahmed picked up Shaheen Afridi, Pakistan six down. Earlier, Bangladesh skipper Jaker Ali won the toss and opted to bowl first against Salman Agha’s Pakistan in match 17 of the Asia Cup 2025 at the Dubai International Cricket Stadium in Dubai on Thursday. The former in the previous game have won against Sri Lanka to eliminate them from the tournament; meanwhile, the latter have been soundly thrashed at the same venue.
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Shaheen Shah Afridi has returned to form in the previous game for Pakistan, picking up a couple of early wickets. It is the batting that still has glaring holes in the line-up. Although the partnership between Hussain Talat and Mohammad Nawaz managed to save the day for Pakistan, the top order has collapsed far too often for their liking, and they will be hoping to sort it out in the knockout game.
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Bangladesh, on the other hand, has been quite efficient with their bowling in all the games, and once again, it is their batting which has let them down. Saif Hassan has been a bright spark in their batting unit who has held the innings in their famous win against Sri Lanka on Saturday, and then was quite superb in the chase against India yesterday. Bangladesh will be hoping that the opener will show his prowess yet again.
Teams:
Bangladesh (Playing XI): Saif Hassan, Parvez Hossain Emon, Towhid Hridoy, Shamim Hossain, Jaker Ali (W/C), Nurul Hasan, Mahadi Hasan, Rishad Hossain Ahmed, Tanzim Hasan Sakib, Mustafizur Rahman
Pakistan (Playing XI): Sahibzada Farhan, Fakhar Zaman, Saim Ayub, Salman Agha (C), Hussain Talaat, Mohammad Haris (W), Mohammad Nawaz, Faheem Ashraf, Shaheen Afridi, Haris Rauf, abarar ahmed
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Bangladesh is known for its left-arm spinners so how did leggie Rishad Hossain emerge as a force?
Rishad Hossain celebrates after snapping a wicket. (AP/PTI)
Nilphamari nourishes indigo, not cricketers. The district, where once the British tortured labourers to cultivate ‘Neel’, or blue gold, lies only 356 kilometres north of Dhaka. The journey, though, would take nearly eight hours, cutting through the congested traffic and sinuous roads. Ten kilometres from the district centre is Nijpara, a dot in a speck, home of Bangladesh wrist-spinner Rishad Hossain.
It is this geographic aloofness from the national and cricketing capital that nurtured the growth of the rarest cricketing specimen in the country, the leg-spinner. In a country fixated with left-arm spinners, only two specialists leg-spinners have donned the colours of the country, Wahidul Gani and Jobair Hussain, before him. A part-time leg-spinner Alok Kapali grabbed a Test hat-trick, the first by his countrymen, but leg-spin was the art of outliers in Bangladesh.
