M Nabi to Mahmudullah, On the pads, flicked through square leg for a run.
M Nabi to M Hossain, Full and outside off, Mosaddek slices his drive towards short third man again, this time for a run.
M Nabi to M Hossain, Shortish and on off, Mosaddek cuts but finds the short third man fielder.
M Nabi to Mahmudullah, Flatter and around off, played down off the back foot to point for a single.
R Khan to Mahmudullah, Short and cut through point for a run.
Interesting thoughts from Aakash Chopra and Zaheer Khan on air. The former says that he would like to make a bold statement - 'Afghanistan are probably only 2 tosses away from making it to the final of the Asia Cup. Why? Because in Abu Dhabi, the win percentage of teams chasing 250 or more in ODIs is a mere 15.' To this, Zak actually does not agree or disagree. He simply states that the Afghans have become such a good team that bat or bowl first, does not matter. To be honest though, Mr. Chopra has a point. You can see what is transpiring now. We would love to see what happens if they are forced to chase though. Meanwhile, Dean Jones informs us that the attendance tonight is around 18,000. The capacity is 21K. Talking about percentages, that is a whopping 86 percent.
R Khan to Mahmudullah, Played to the point region by the batsman. They pick up a single.
R Khan to Mahmudullah, Shows the full face of the bat and defends the ball off the back foot.
R Khan to M Hossain, On middle, worked on the leg side for a run.
R Khan to Mahmudullah, Flatter again but this time he strays on his pads which allows Mahmudullah to turn it into the square leg region and cross over to the other end.
R Khan to Mahmudullah, Quick but fractionally shorter in length, Mahmudullah goes back and punches this to covers.
M Nabi to M Hossain, A fuller and slower ball to end the over, Hossain flicks it to square leg but no run on offer there. A wonderful maiden over by Nabi.
M Nabi to M Hossain, Tossed up on off, kept out off the front foot.
M Nabi to M Hossain, Faster and flatter around off, Hossain goes back and defends with a straight bat.
M Nabi to M Hossain, Defended off the front foot by the batsman presenting the full face of the bat.
M Nabi to M Hossain, Wicket-taking bowling from one end and a stump to stump economical bowling from the other. Keeps this in line of the stumps, Mosaddek blocks it out off the back foot.
M Nabi to M Hossain, Defended off the front foot by the batsman presenting the full face of the bat.
Mohammad Nabi comes back into the attack.
R Khan to Mahmudullah, Another play and a miss outside off to end this probing over by the champion leggie.
R Khan to Mahmudullah, Beaten! Not easy to line him up when it's turning at that pace. Mahmudullah looking to push at it gets beaten. Rashid Khan at it again.