BAN VS AFG - 2nd T20I, Afghanistan tour of Bangladesh, 2022

That's a wrap to Afghanistan's limited-over tour of Bangladesh. Bangladesh won the ODI series, whereas the T20I series is shared. Mohammad Nabi and Mahmudullah collect the trophy and pose for the cameras. Nabi asks his team mates to come over and join him for a photograph. So, we had plenty of cricketing action today. A couple of ODIs of the Women's World Cup, a couple of Tests - (India vs Sri Lanka) and (Pakistan vs Australia) - and this game being the last one for the day. We'll be back tomorrow with some more live action, do join us for the coverage of those matches. For now, it's a goodbye from Nikhil, Raju, Pradeep and Harish. Ciao!

Mohhammad Nabi | Afghanistan captain: The boys played really well, especially in the first innings. It was a good effort from the bowlers, and also the fielding was good. Hazratullah and Ghani batted well for us. In the first game we made mistakes while batting, and we worked on that and rectified those mistakes today. We are trying to build a young and strong bench for the upcoming T20 World Cup. We are tying our best to keep up the momentum.

Fazalhaq Farooqi | Player of the Series: I am very happy to win this Player of the Series award. Thanks to all the supporters back in Afghanistan. We were trying our best, we worked hard on ourselves and produced the result.

Azmatullah Omarzai | Player of the Match: It was my second T20I and I tried to play my best. It was a dream to perform well for the team, I just tried to bowl a few dot balls, that was my role.

Mahmudullah | Bangladesh captain: It was a good wicket to bat on, we didn't put enough partnerships. Very disappointed the way this game turned up. It wasn't a 150-160 wicket, but 140 was gettable. We didn't have partnerships upfront, so going forward we need to work on these areas. Me and Mushy were trying to get a partnership, we were trying to take on their bowlers. We need to improve our fielding, that's something we need to work on. We have a few Tests, ODIs coming up, before we play the next T20Is. Looking forward to them.

18:19 Local Time, 12:19 GMT, 17:49 IST: Bangladesh won the ODI series 2-1, and the T20I series ends with a scoreline of 1-1. Not much to differentiate between the two sides, just that Bangladesh won a match more than the visitors did. And most of the games were one-sided ones. Either Bangladesh outplayed Afghanistan, or the Afghans outplayed the hosts, like they did today. It was an impressive peformance by their bowlers, especially Farooqi and Azmatullah who claimed three wickets each to restrict Bangladesh to 115/9 earlier in the day. In reply, Afghanistan lost an early wicket in the form of Gurbaz. However, Zazai and Ghani had a match-defining partnership for the second wicket, and Bangladesh had no answers to that onslaught by the two top order batters. Zazai finished with an unbeaten knock of 59*, while Rasooli hit the winning runs. Stay tuned for the presentations..

Nasum Ahmed to Darwish Rasooli, SIX, Afghanistan win by 8 wickets and level the series 1-1. That's a wrap to this 2-match T20I series. A short ball by Nasum Ahmed, an absolute gift and Darwish Rasooli rocks back in the crease to pull it over deep mid-wicket to finish things off in style. A clinical performance by the Afghan boys as the two unbeaten batters have the customary hand shakes on their way back to the pavilion..

Nasum Ahmed to Darwish Rasooli, no run, loopy delivery on off, Darwish Rasooli pushes this to cover

Nasum Ahmed to Darwish Rasooli, no run, on the batter's pads, tad short and Darwish Rasooli has worked this to short fine leg

Nasum Ahmed to Darwish Rasooli, no run, floated around offf, Darwish Rasooli drives it firmly to cover

Nasum Ahmed [3.0-0-23-0] is back into the attack

Shoriful Islam to Hazratullah Zazai, SIX, scores level! What a strong bottom-handed blow that. Shoriful Islam bowls a half-volley around middle and leg, and Hazratullah Zazai stays put to smoke this over long-on as he manages to clear the fielder stationed near the boundary. Afghanistan just a hit away from victory

Shoriful Islam to Darwish Rasooli, 1 run, on the batter's pads and Darwish Rasooli has worked this through mid-wicket

Shoriful Islam to Hazratullah Zazai, 1 run, too full around middle and leg, Hazratullah Zazai squeezes it to long-on and takes a single

Shoriful Islam to Hazratullah Zazai, no run, goes for a pull against this short ball, but fails to make contact does Hazratullah Zazai

Shoriful Islam to Darwish Rasooli, 1 run, banged in short around off, Darwish Rasooli rides the bounce and dabs it through backward point

Shoriful Islam to Hazratullah Zazai, leg byes, 1 run, Appeal for an lbw taken upstairs. But this is clearly pitching outside leg and the is sliding down. Was a yorker length ball by Shoriful Islam that dipped in front of the batter and Hazratullah Zazai got beaten due to the lack of pace as well. Bangladesh have lost a review, but it doesn't matter as Afghanistan are almost there

Shoriful Islam [2.0-0-16-0] is back into the attack

Appeal for an lbw taken upstairs.

Mahmudullah to Hazratullah Zazai, 1 run, nudged through the on-side by Hazratullah Zazai as Afghanistan require 11 runs off the final 4 overs..