At the Sylhet International Cricket Stadium, Afghanistan and Bangladesh will play each other in a two-match T20I series beginning on July 14. The second game will take place on July 16 at the same location.
Afghanistan will be into the games fresh off a historic 2-1 ODI series win over Bangladesh at home. They won the series thanks to an outstanding bowling performance from the entire team in the first game, and Rahmanullah Gurbaz and Ibrahim Zadran completely dismantled the Bangladesh bowlers in the second one-day international by scoring a record opening partnership of 256 runs. Gurbaz scored 145, his highest total in the format, while Zadran reached 100 in his fourth ODI.
After winning the series, Afghanistan will be quite self-assured and will try to keep up its winning ways. After two years, the seasoned wicket-keeper hitter Mohammad Shahzad has earned a call-up and is anticipated to open the innings alongside Gurbaz.
While Bangladesh will be entering the match fresh off of a rare home series defeat. They won the one-off Test by an enormous margin of 546 runs, which ranks third-largest in Test history in terms of runs won. They were unable to maintain their momentum, though, in the ODIs.
While Shoriful Islam recorded his best bowling stats in ODIs of 4/21, he helped Bangladesh avoid a cleansweep as they secured a consolation win by seven wickets in the third ODI. Litton Das was the leading run scorer for Bangladesh with an aggregate of 92 runs in three games at an average of 46. The Tigers will want to continue their recent winning streak in the T20I series.
Let’s have a look at some statistics and data before the T20I series between Bangladesh and Afghanistan:
In the nine games that the two teams have played against each other overall, Afghanistan has a commanding lead with six victories to Bangladesh’s three.
1 – Shakib Al Hasan (49) is one hit away from completing 50 sixes in T20Is.
9 – Najibullah Zadran (91) requires 9 sixes to complete 100 sixes in T20Is.
15 – Karim Janat (485) needs 15 runs to complete 500 runs in T20Is.
39 – Mohammad Shahzad (1961) needs 39 runs to complete 2000 runs in T20Is.
8 – Mohammad Nabi (92) needs 8 sixes to complete 100 sixes in T20Is.
2 – Taskin Ahmed (48) requires two wickets to complete 50 wickets in T20I.
10 – Mujeeb-Ur-Rahman (140) needs 10 wickets to complete 150 international wickets.
5 – Mohammad Nabi (245) requires five wickets to complete 250 wickets across formats.
4 – Hazratullah Zazai (996) is 4 runs away from completing 1000 T20I runs.
155 – Shakib Al Hasan (2345) requires 155 runs to complete 2500 runs in T20Is.
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