ABU DHABI:
Spinner Nasum Ahmed produced a miserly spell to assist Bangladesh beat Afghanistan by eight runs on Tuesday and hold their Asia Cup hopes alive.
Bangladesh posted 154-5 batting first as opener Tanzid Hasan starred together with his 52 off 31 balls in Abu Dhabi.
Nasum and fellow spinner Rishad Hossain then took two wickets every earlier than tempo bowler Mustafizur Rahman returned figures of 3-28 to assist bowl out Afghanistan for 146.
Taskin Ahmed additionally claimed two wickets as he wrapped up the innings with the ultimate ball of the match.
Bangladesh ended Group B with two wins and one defeat of their three outings.
Their possibilities of reaching the Tremendous 4 stage will rely upon the ultimate match of the group between Afghanistan and Sri Lanka on Thursday.
Bangladesh will undergo if Sri Lanka win, however an Afghan victory would see them progress and depart the Sri Lankans and Bangladesh to be break up on web run-rate.
Left-arm spinner Nasum rocked the Afghanistan chase early when he struck with the primary ball of the innings to lure Sediqullah Atal lbw after which grabbed the important thing wicket of Ibrahim Zadran, for 5, within the fifth over.
He returned figures of 2-11 from his 4 overs.
Rishad dismissed Gulbadin Naib caught and bowled for 16 together with his leg-spin after which despatched again the damaging Rahmanullah Gurbaz for 35 to dent Afghanistan.
Azmatullah Omarzai tried to revive the chase with three sixes in his 16-ball 30 however holed out off Taskin.
Skipper Rashid Khan made one last push with a quickfire 20 however fell to Mustafizur, who struck once more to be on a hat-trick which was prevented by Fazalhaq Farooqi.
Earlier Tanzid placed on a gap stand of 63 with Saif Hasan, who made 30, as the 2 racked up 59 within the powerplay.
Rashid broke the stand as he struck in his first over by bowling Saif and Afghanistan’s spinners quickly took management.
Left-arm wrist spinner Noor Ahmad trapped skipper Litton Das lbw for 9 to additional peg again Bangladesh.
Tanzid raised his fifty off 28 deliveries however fell to Noor within the subsequent over.
Towhid Hridoy added a 20-ball 26 however though Bangladesh managed simply 67 runs within the last 10 overs, it proved sufficient for the win.
