Pakistan had a hugely successful tour of Bangladesh. Although the twenty20 series was much closer than matches in the test series Pakistan nevertheless whitewashed Bangladesh in the Twenty20 series as well. Mind you Bangladesh fielded an extremely inexperienced team in the twenty20 series clearly missing the services of Mushfiqur Rahim, Tamim Iqbal and Shakib Al Hasan while Pakistan were at full strength. Bangladesh in particular look an extremely weak team whenever they play without Shakib Al Hasan who is their only star player with a lot of charisma.
Bangladesh team showed fight in the first match and in the third match of the twenty20 series. In the first match if it wasnt for Shadab Khan and Muhammad Nawaz late power hitting Pakistan might have lost the first match. In the second match of the twenty20 series Pakistan won convincingly by eight wickets. In the third match, Pakistan had the control of the game until Mahmudullah's final over of the innings in which he picked up three wickets. Had Ifthikar Ahmed not struck a huge six of the third ball of the innings and Muhammad Nawaz not struck four of the last ball of the innings the match might have been decided by the super over. Having said that Muhammad Nawaz took a huge risk by leaving the last ball of the innings indicating to the umpire he wasnt ready before he struck the last ball of the innings for four.
In the test series Pakistan was ruthless even though Mushfiqur Rahim returned for the test matches and Bangladesh had taken the lead in the first test match. Abdullah Shafique and Abid Ali struck century opening partnerships in the both innings of the test match to ensure Pakistan won easily by eight wickets in the first test. The second test match was a rain marred test with rain ensuring any play on the third day of the test match but Sajid Khan's spell of 8-42 left a Bangladeshi collapse of 87 in their first innings ensuring follow on. On the last day Mushfiqur Rahim, Liton Das and Shakib Al Hasan resisted but were unable to prevent an innings defeat to Pakistan as Pakistan clean swept the test series 2-0 against Bangladesh..
Pakistan in this tour of Bangladesh proved to the world that they are not only a very good twenty20 side but they have an equally potent test side as well and they really have the temperament to play the longer versions of the game.
