Pakistan and Bangladesh headed into the penultimate match of the Tremendous 4 stage understanding the winner would advance to the ultimate and Bangladesh had one foot in Sunday’s trophy match after they restricted Pakistan to 135-8.

Taskin Ahmed (3-28) and Mahedi Hasan (2-28) struck early to scale back Pakistan to 5-2 inside 10 balls and wickets continued to fall because the batting aspect teetered on 49-5 within the eleventh over.

Wicketkeeper Mohammad Haris top-scored with 31 (23) to pull Pakistan into three figures, having fun with partnerships with Shaheen Shah Afridi (19) and Mohammad Nawaz (25), however Mahedi and Taskin dismissed the trio to stop any late fireworks.

Bangladesh had their very own struggles with the bat, shedding three wicket within the powerplay and later slumping to 44-4.

Shamim Hossain’s 30 (25) briefly revived their hopes of a profitable chase however his dismissal by Shaheen (3-17) within the seventeenth over was shortly adopted by two wickets in three balls from Haris Rauf and regardless of some late boundaries from Rishad Hossain, Bangladesh fell quick.

Bangladesh, who’re but to win the lads’s Asia Cup, be part of Sri Lanka in being eradicated within the Tremendous Fours, with the latter going through unbeaten India within the last group match on Friday.