Bangladesh (BAN) vs Afghanistan (AFG), Asia Cup 2025 Live Cricket Score Updates: Bangladesh will take on Afghanistan in a virtual must-win game for Litton Das’ side after their loss to Sri Lanka. If they don’t win this game, they will be eliminated with Sri Lanka already on 4 points and in case of an Afghanistan win, they’ll also get to 4. That leaves Bangladesh at just 2 points from 3 matches and they’ll join Hong Kong as the teams to be eliminated from this group.
Bangladesh had started the campaign pretty well with an effortless win against Hong Kong with Litton even scoring a gritty half century. but it all went downhill for the Tigers in the Sri Lanka match where they couldn’t even get off the mark in the first 14 balls, even losing 2 wickets for 0 runs. They recovered somewhat to ultimately post 139 which Sri Lanka chased down in 14.4 overs.
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Afghanistan, meanwhile, will be in action for the first time since the Asia cup opener on September 9 which was exactly a week ago. They have been forced to rest on their laurels since thrashing Hong Kong by 94 runs due to the schedule of the tournament. They’ll be pretty fresh when they take on Bangladesh but the Bangla Tigers, who have been playing regular matches, might look for some ring rust in their opponents tonight.
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Fazalhaq Farooqi: From a country known for virtuoso spinners has emerged a left-arm pacer fast becoming one of the best in the world
Left-arm seamers, the exceptional ones, wield an aura, but there are only faint outlines of a halo around Farooqi. (X/Afghanistan Cricket Board)
When Fazalhaq Farooqi was a teenager, his friends used to tease him for being a fast bowler. Spin bowling was such a frenzy in Afghanistan that some would suggest him to bowl left-arm wrist spin because he could play in a lot of franchise leagues that way.
“They were joking, of course, but that was the perception. In their mind, only Afghanistan spinners could play overseas leagues, not batsmen, and definitely not spinners,” Farooqi says in a Sunrisers Hyderabad video. But he listened to his inner voice and became a mould-breaker in Afghan cricket, the first of their genuine fast bowlers.
