Bangladesh on Monday defeated Afghanistan by 62 runs in their World Cup match . Bangladesh boosted their bid to reach the World Cup semi-finals as Shakib Al Hasan´s superb all-round display inspired a 62-run win over Afghanistan on Monday.
Shakib´s 51 laid the foundations for Bangladesh to score 262-7 and made him the leading run-scorer in this year´s World Cup.
The 32-year-old then ripped through the Afghan batting line-up with his career-best ODI figures of 5-29 from 10 overs.
Shakib is only the second player in World Cup history to take five wickets and hit a 50 in the same match after India´s Yuvraj Singh against Ireland in 2011.
Bangladesh, winners against South Africa and the West Indies earlier in the tournament, are up to fifth place in the 10-team group stage.
They sit one point behind fourth-placed England, who face Australia on Tuesday, in the race to seal a semi-final berth via a top-four finish.
Mashrafe Mortaza´s side play India and Pakistan in their final two group matches.
"Shakib has been fantastic throughout the tournament. We´ll try our level best against Pakistan and India. It´s still wide open," Mashrafe said.
Afghanistan became the first team to be eliminated after an agonising 11-run loss against India on Saturday, when Mohammed Shami´s final-over hat-trick denied them a famous upset.
Gulbadin Naib´s team have lost all seven of their matches, leaving them with two games to avoid finishing the tournament without a single point.
"Obviously we played two tough games and today we missed something. Our fielding gave away 30 to 40 extra runs," Naib said.
Rahmat Shah and Gulbadin put on 49 for the first wicket, giving Afghanistan hope of a surprise win.
But Shakib´s introduction brought the breakthrough as the spinner weaved his magic.
Rahmat carelessly flicked a flatter delivery to Tamim Iqbal at mid-on and departed for 24.
Hashmatullah Shahidi perished when he tried to accelerate, stumped by Mushfiqur Rahim off Mosaddek Hossain for 11.
Bangladesh had victory in their sights after Shakib took two wickets in the space of four balls.
Gulbadin was removed for 47 after driving low to Liton Das at short extra cover before Mohammad Nabi was bowled through the gate for a duck.
Shakib became the first Bangladesh player to take five wickets in the World Cup when he had Najibullah Zadran stumped.
Earlier, Shakib became the leading run scorer in this year´s World Cup so far as his side posted a solid score after being put into bat.
Shakib´s 51 took him to 476 runs in the tournament, while Mushfiqur top-scored with 83 from 87 balls.
Liton fell for 16 after being fooled into a miscued drive by spinner Mujeeb Ur Rahman, who finished with 3-39.
That brought Shakib to the crease and he upped the tempo with some aggressive hitting that maintained his fine form.
When Shakib, who has two centuries already in the tournament, pulled Naib to the boundary, it moved him above Australia´s David Warner´s 447 runs.
Tamim and Shakib put on their fourth successive fifty partnership in one-day internationals.
Shakib went on to become only the second player to hit six consecutive 40-plus scores in a World Cup.
Bangladesh innings
Bangladesh's Shakib Al Hasan became the leading run scorer in this year's World Cup so far as he made a confident start in today's match against minnows Afghanistan.
His unbeaten 31 took him to 456 runs in the tournament, while Mushfiqur Rahim was six not out in Bangladesh's 95-2 after 20 overs in Southampton.
Liton Das was promoted ahead of Soumya Sarkar to open along with Tamim Iqbal for Bangladesh, with the pair managing a brisk 23 from the first four overs.
But Das fell for 16 in the next over after being fooled into a miscued drive by Mujeeb Ur Rahman. Hashmatullah Shahidi dived forward to get his fingers underneath the ball at extra cover, with a review confirming the dismissal.
That brought Shakib to the crease and he upped the tempo even further with some aggressive hitting that maintained his fine World Cup form.
When Shakib, who has two centuries already in the tournament, pulled Naib to the boundary, it moved him above Australia's David Warner's 447 runs as the leading scorer in this year's event.
Tamim and Shakib put on their fourth successive fifty partnership in one-day internationals. But having been hit for a boundary the ball before, Mohammad Nabi responded with a flighted turner that bowled Tamim for 36.
Shakib survived an lbw review off Afghanistan's star leg-spinner Rashid Khan when he had made 27, the ball-tracking review showing it would have gone just over the stumps.
Toss, pre-match chatter
After the toss was delayed 10 minutes by light rain, Afghanistan skipper Gulbadin Naib opted to take advantage of the murky conditions overhead that could help his bowlers.
"I wanted to bowl first, conditions suit for bowling and we have played here so know about the conditions," Naib said. "In the second innings against India it was quite good for batting."
"Against India, we had a good opportunity to beat them and I have confidence today from how we played in the last game," added Naib, whose side have lost all six matches they played in the tournament.
Bangladesh captain Mashrafe Mortaza said: "It is a used wicket. If you look at the last match here it was slow and there was turn. We prefer to bat first to get use of it. We'll see what happens."
Teams
Bangladesh: Tamim Iqbal, Soumya Sarkar, Shakib Al Hasan, Mushfiqur Rahim (wkt), Liton Das, Mahmudullah, Mosaddek Hossain, Mohammad Saifuddin, Mehidy Hasan, Mashrafe Mortaza (capt), Mustafizur Rahman
Afghanistan: Gulbadin Naib (capt), Rahmat Shah, Hashmatullah Shahidi, Asghar Afghan, Mohammad Nabi, Najibullah Zadran, Samiullah Shinwari, Rashid Khan, Ikram Ali Khil (wkt), Dawlat Zadran, Mujeeb Ur Rahman
Umpires: Michael Gough (ENG), Richard Kettleborough (ENG). TV umpire: Aleem Dar (PAK) Match referee: Richie Richardson (WIS)
