Bangladesh vs Afghanistan, 2nd T20I at Dhaka, BAN v AFG, Mar 05 2022 - Match Result

Mahmudullah and Nabi pose together with the T20I trophy. That's the end of the presentation and our coverage too. On behalf of my fellow commentator Himanshu Agarwal and scorer K Vairavan, this is Sruthi Ravindranath signing off. See you all soon!

Afghanistan captain Mohammad Nabi: "The boys played well. We threw one wicket early but we came back well. In the first game, we did mistakes in batting and we learnt from it. On young players: we try to build a young bench for Asia Cup and World Cup. We're trying our best to keep the momentum going."

Fazalhaq Farooqi is Player of the Series for his five wickets in two games: "I'm very happy and I dedicate it to my country. We are a young side, we did whatever we could do and won it."

MVP is Hazratullah Zazai.

And the Player of the Match is Azmatullah Omarzai for his 3 for 22: "I tried my best to do, I'm very happy. It was a dream to perform for the team, glad I bowled a lot of dot balls in addition to getting wickets."

Bangladesh captain Mahmudullah: "Yeah, it was a good wicket to bat on, but no enough partnerships. Very disappointed. It wasn't 150 wicket but 130 gettable. No partnerships especially upfront. Me and Mushi were trying to get a partnership, sometimes you get lucky. Both of us could have scored a few more. We need to find something to work on [the fielding]. it's been bothering us, we need to improve on fielding. I think we'll have more T20 games in July. Hopefully we can come back strong."

6.41pm Time for presentation

Before we head to the presentation: Rashid Khan spoke emotionally about Shane Warne during innings break, admitting it was a tough for him to come out and play today:

"It was a huge honour for me, I bowled with him at MCG [on the sidelines of Boxing Day Test in 2019]. I was very, very keen to bowl with him for my long-format [learnings], especially Test cricket. He told me whenever you are with me I will be happy to help you with the format and I was just waiting for that opportunity. We talked when I was in Big Bash this year as well, we talked about the long format, he called me and we discussed this.

"It was super tough [preparing for today's game]. I did not know how to go on and play cricket, he was in my mind the whole night. I was not believing it when I woke up on the morning, I checked my phone a couple of times... 'What happened last night?' It's very hard to accept that."

Chris: "Bangladesh awful in every department today. A game to forget for sure "

6.18pm A very good comeback by the visitors after falling short by 61 runs in the first T20I. They kept Bangladesh to 115 courtesy of a disciplined bowling effort, and then wiped out the runs needed with more than two overs to go and eight wickets in hand. Very composed knocks from Zazai and Ghani, and the hosts were not helped by dropped catches either. Anyway, the series is leveled, and stick around for the presentations.

Just 1 to win now, and here comes Nasum from around the wicket.

Stays over the wicket to Rasooli

Shoriful back from over the wicket. Can Afghanistan finish it off within an over or two?

Azweer: "This is what expected from Afghanistan, the top order to be firm and firing."

Around the wicket to Zazai

Rasooli in now.

Mahmudullah himself has the ball now. Over the wicket.

Around the stumps to Zazai too

Around the wicket to Ghani