U-19 cricket
U-19 cricket: Bangladesh, Pakistan T20 series ends in a draw
The two-match T20 series between Bangladesh and Pakistan U-19 teams ended with both teams winning a match each.
Bangladesh won the first match of the series but lost the second one Friday by seven wickets.
Meanwhile, the solitary four-day match was drawn. And Bangladesh won the three-match 45-over series 2-1.
Arafat Minhas and Saad Baig hit a fifty each for Pakistan at the Multan Cricket Stadium in Pakistan's Punjab.
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Bangladesh batted first and scored 163. Opening batter Jishan Alam top-scored a 40-ball 73, hitting nine fours and two sixes. Chowdhury Mohammad Rizwan scored 29 off 28 balls, which included two fours and one six.
For Pakistan, left-arm spinner Ali Asfand bagged three wickets and Mohammad Ibtisam took two wickets.
"Beating Pakistan in Pakistan is right up there in terms of job satisfaction," Wasim Jaffer, Bangladesh coach, wrote on his Twitter. "Proud of the boys on winning the ODI series 2-1, drawing the T20 series 1-1, and batting over a day to draw the only Test."
U-19 cricket series between Bangladesh and Pakistan postponed
Due to the recent surge of Covid-19 cases in the country, the Under-19 cricket series between Bangladesh and Pakistan has been postponed indefinitely, confirmed Bangladesh Cricket Board CEO Nizam Uddin Chowdhury.
In this tour, Pakistan U-19 was scheduled to play a four-day and five one-day matches against their Bangladeshi counterparts.
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“We have been in continuous communication with the Pakistan board. We will host the series at a convenient time in the coming months,” he told the reporters on Saturday.
“It’ll possible when we get a situation to host an international team, and we obviously try to host them as early as possible,” he further added.
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A weeklong lockdown to curb the transmission of Covid-19 was imposed in Bangladesh on April 5 which will come to an end on Sunday. But it apparently is proved to be ineffective as it was unplanned as according to the expert. The government had to backtrack some decisions during the lockdown.
Now, the authority has announced that a stricter lockdown will be enforced from April 14 when except for some emergency services, everything will remain closed.