They were 5 wickets short of 35 runs. Then, Bangladesh turned around with an unbeaten 108-run partnership between Zaker Ali and Towhid Hridoy. Both scored fifties. Zaker 53 and Hridoy is batting on 54 runs.

At the time of writing this report, the Tigers’ team score was 142 runs for 5 wickets after 37 overs. Earlier, on Thursday, openers Soumya Sarkar, Nazmul Hossain Shanto, Mehedi Hasan Miraj, openers Tanjid Tamim and Mushfiqur Rahim won the toss and entered the batting procession at the Dubai International Cricket Stadium.

After playing 5 balls, Soumya was caught behind the wicket by KL Rahul off Mohammad Shami in the first over of the innings. In the next over of Harshit Rana, captain Nazmul Hossain Shanto returned with an easy catch to Kohli at short cover. He also could not open the run account.

Then Tanjid tried to settle down a bit with Miraj. But the 24-run partnership was broken when Miraj was out for 5 runs off 10 balls. Miraj was caught by Shubman Gill off Shami.

In the ninth over, Axar Patel took two wickets in two consecutive balls. He removed Tanjid in the second ball and new batter Mushfiqur in the third ball. Tanjid was caught behind the wicket after making 25 runs in 25 balls. And Mushfiqur hit a golden duck (0 in 1 ball). He was also caught behind the wicket by Rahul. After that, the pair of Zaker and Hridoy for the sixth wicket.