Pakistan vs Bangladesh, 17th Match, Super Fours at Dubai, Asia Cup, Sep 25 2025 - Ball by Ball Commentary

wild delivery, bowled a country mile outside off. Faheem lets it go and the umpire has to indulge in some more exercise

into the blockhole outside off. Faheem sits deep in his crease and drills it down the ground towards long off. Single denied...

full on the pads. Faheem flicks it towards deep mid wicket and is happy to keep strike for the start of the 20th

excellent yorker outside off. Rauf cannot get under it and clinks his slog towards long on

off-pace and into the track outside off. Rauf swings his blade like an axe but gets nowhere close to the ball. Rauf's grunt was audible - that was how hard he swung at that!

zipped into the blockhole on middle and leg. Rauf digs it out enough to long on's right and saunters back for two

goes straight up, and Nawaz bites the dust! Taskin goes fuller outside off and Nawaz's eyes light up, with mid off and extra cover in the ring. He gives it the entire lot but slices it terribly. The ball comes down with snow on it but thankfully for Bangladesh, Emon, who is under it having back-pedaled from extra cover, holds on. Top, top catch given the circumstances, and Nawaz, perhaps Pakistan's death-overs hope, has to go!

Nawaz lays into Taskin first up! Banged into the track outside off but this ball does not have any venom on it. Nawaz stands up on his toes and dumps it over the deep square leg fence!

pushed in full on middle and leg. Faheem gets a bit of bat on it and glances it past short fine leg. Taskin opts against the dive and has to then chase it down. Back for a brace

shorter outside off. Nawaz hangs back and slaps it down the ground to long off

hung up full and way outside off. Just beyond the tramlines and the umpire stretches out his arms once Nawaz lets it go

fired in on a length on middle and leg. Faheem punches it to long on and gets off the mark

smashed back at Mahedi, and he makes amends! This was the gamble Bangladesh had to take, and it pays off for them. Zipped into the slot on the stumps. Haris backs away and looks to go downtown. Does not get the elevation, though, and drills it flat. Mahedi has his wits about him, and snares a sharp chance to his left with both hands. Haris perishes, and Pakistan will need someone else to provide the finishing kick now!

darted in on a length on middle and leg at 105.6kph. Nawaz has a wild slog at it and squirts it off the inside edge towards short fine leg

going, going, gone! Back of a length outside off and this sits up just the way Nawaz wants it to. He swings through the line and thumps it into the sightscreen!

slower ball on a length outside off. Nawaz comes forward and pushes it towards sweeper cover

a massive mix-up and Pakistan, somehow, survive! Dug in short on the stumps. Nawaz rolls his wrists and pulls it towards deep backward square leg. He then decides to hare down for the second, even as Haris does not move a muscle at the other end. Both end up almost at the same end (batter's) but are let off the hook with a weak throw to Jaker, who cannot relay it to the bowler quick enough

zipped in very full but also down leg. Nawaz, having advanced, misses his flick and the umpire, after a bit of contemplation, decides to indulge in some exercise

full toss sprayed a mile outside off. Haris moves across, reaches out for it and chunks it off the inside edge into the on side. Would have been a wide had he left it

full and wide outside off. Haris stays put this time and throws his hands at it. Flays it towards deep backward point, where Emon does well to his right to save two

speared in full and wide. Haris, rather ambitiously, tries a sweep a 135.5kph delivery from well outside the line, and misses

back of a length outside off. Sticks in the surface a touch and Haris slaps it towards mid off