Abu Hider to R Khan, WIDE! But to be honest, Hider was a touch lucky there! He bowled a slower ball down the leg side. Rashid goes for the sweep and had he connected, it would have been a boundary as the fine leg was in. He does not and the umpire signals it as a wide.
Abu Hider to G Naib, Another full toss outside off, Naib swings, he gets a top edge but due to the long boundaries here, it falls safe in the third man region and a run is taken.
Abu Hider to G Naib, Well bowled! A yorker outside off, you cannot hit that to many places and Naib finds that out as he gets a bottom edge to the keeper.
Abu Hider to G Naib, A couple to start the over! A full toss outside off, Naib lofts it over the cover fielder, not off the middle but connects well enough to get two.
Abu Hider is back into the attack.
M Mortaza to R Khan, In the air... but safe! A brace more importantly! This is short and on middle, Khan tries to pull but gets a top edge which lands in the vacant mid-wicket area. The batsmen take two.
M Mortaza to R Khan, Good running! This is the slower ball on the pads, Rashid works it towards fine leg and runs two. 200 up now, not sure it looked possible at one stage but now they can add more to it with 4.1 overs left. Also, the 4th fifty for Afghanistan has come off the fewest number of balls. Surely a momentum shift.
M Mortaza to G Naib, A single now as Naib cuts it through point for a run.
M Mortaza to G Naib, This time the seam up delivery outside off, Naib again swings but misses. 3 dots so far in this over.
M Mortaza to G Naib, Using all his experience in use here. He bowls it slower and pitches it just ahead of a length. Naib swings but misses.
M Mortaza to G Naib, Gives the bowler the charge. Mortaza spots it early and bangs it short. Naib fends it out.
R Hossain to G Naib, Naib too shows he has brains and not only power as he eases it down to long off for a run. 17 from the over and this perhaps could be the momentum changing one.
R Hossain to R Khan, Does the smart thing now... He pushes it through covers and gets to the other end.
R Hossain to R Khan, SIX! He has picked the bones out of that one! Uff! What a shot! 15 from the over and 2 balls are yet remaining. Another bouncer, Rashid maybe was expecting it this time as he pulls it right off the middle and over the square leg fence.
R Hossain to R Khan, FOUR! Second in the over! Not convincing but Rashid won't mind at all! A bumper on middle, Rashid goes for the hook without watching the ball. He gets a top edge and the ball races to the fine leg fence. 9 runs already from the over, they can now make this a big one.
R Hossain to G Naib, Swings again but this time not the same connection as he got on the last ball. It goes off the inner half towards mid-wicket for a run. Easy Naib, 5 more overs are left after this one, your team needs you out there.
R Hossain to G Naib, FOUR! Welcome back into the attack. A boundary off the very first ball which means pressure on the bowler. The slower ball on middle, Naib picks it, waits for it and hits it through mid-wicket. No fielder in the deep and it races away.
Rubel Hossain is back on.
M Mortaza to G Naib, Naib retains strike as he drives this fuller length ball around off into the mid-wicket region for a single.
M Mortaza to R Khan, Similar ball this but Rashid does well to push it into the gap in covers to take a single and get Gulbadin on strike for the last ball of the over.