Bangladesh has won a first-ever gold medal in the Asian Games, with its cricketers defeating Afghanistan in the Twenty20 competition in China. Bangladesh cricketers won their nation's first ever Asian Games gold medal by ending Afghanistan's dream run in the inaugural final on Friday.
Batting first , Afghan team scored 118 runs for 8 wickets in 20 overs. Asghar Estanakzai was the top scorer with his 38 runs and Naeem Islam , Shadat Hussain and Muhammad Ashraful took 2 wickets each.
Bangladesh chased the modest score in the last over to seal their first ever gold medal in Asian Games .Naeen Islam and Shabbir Rehman scored 34 and 33 runs, respectively.
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