Bangladeshi cricket team in Pakistan in 2008

The Bangladeshi cricket team toured Pakistan in April 2008 to play five one day internationals and a Twenty20 International. The series was arranged at short notice following Australia's decision to pull out of their scheduled tour of Pakistan due to security reasons.

Bangladeshi cricket team in Pakistan in 2008
	Pakistan	Bangladesh
Dates	7 – 22 April 2008
Captains	Shoaib Malik	Mohammad Ashraful
One Day International series
Results	Pakistan won the 5-match series 5–0
Most runs	Salman Butt (451)	Shakib Al Hasan (192)
Most wickets	Shahid Afridi (12)	Mashrafe Mortaza (8)
Player of the series	Salman Butt (Pak)
Twenty20 International series
Results	Pakistan won the 1-match series 1–0
Most runs	Misbah-ul-Haq (87)	Nazimuddin (42)
Most wickets	Mansoor Amjad (3)	Mashrafe Mortaza (1)
Player of the series	Misbah-ul-Haq (Pak)

Squads

ODI and T20I Squads
Pakistan	Bangladesh
Shoaib Malik (c)	Mohammad Ashraful (c)
Kamran Akmal (wk)	Dhiman Ghosh (wk)
Misbah-ul-Haq	Mashrafe Mortaza (vc)
Younis Khan	Abdur Razzak
Mohammad Yousuf	Aftab Ahmed
Salman Butt	Farhad Reza
Nasir Jamshed	Junaid Siddique
Shahid Afridi	Mahmudullah
Sohail Tanvir	Nazimuddin
Umar Gul	Shahadat Hossain
Iftikhar Anjum	Shahriar Nafees
Naumanullah	Shakib Al Hasan
Wahab Riaz	Syed Rasel
Mansoor Amjad (T20I squad)	Tamim Iqbal
Bazid Khan	Mehrab Hossain (Standby Player)
Fawad Alam	Nazmul Hossain (Standby Player)
Sarfaraz Ahmed (wk)	Mushfiqur Rahman(wk), (Standby Player)

ODI series

1st ODI

8 April 2008 Scorecard

Pakistan 322/5 (50 overs)	v	Bangladesh 129 (29.5 overs)
Mohammad Yousuf 108* (103) Farhad Reza 2/41 (10 overs)		Mashrafe Mortaza 25 (20) Sohail Tanvir 3/29 (7 overs)

Pakistan won by 152 runs (D/L) Gaddafi Stadium, Lahore Umpires: Aleem Dar (Pak) and Steve Bucknor (WI) Player of the match: Mohammad Yousuf (Pak)

• Pakistan won the toss and elected to bat.
• Due to floodlights failure, Bangladesh were given a revised target of 282 from 39 overs.

2nd ODI

11 April 2008 Scorecard

Bangladesh 225/8 (48.2 overs)	v	Pakistan 160/3 (23.2 overs)
Tamim Iqbal 60 (78) Shahid Afridi 3/33 (10 overs)		Salman Butt 76 (72) Farhad Reza 1/22 (4 overs)

Pakistan won by 7 wickets (D/L) Iqbal Stadium, Faislabad Umpires: Aleem Dar (Pak) and Steve Bucknor (WI) Player of the match: Salman Butt (Pak)

• Bangladesh won the toss and elected to bat.
• Rain during Bangladesh's innings set Pakistan a revised target of 158 from 25 overs.

3rd ODI

13 April 2008 Scorecard

Pakistan 308/8 (50 overs)	v	Bangladesh 285/7 (50 overs)
Salman Butt 132 (127) Mashrafe Mortaza 2/47 (10 overs)		Shakib Al Hasan 75 (73) Shahid Afridi 2/48 (10 overs)

Pakistan won by 23 runs Gaddafi Stadium, Lahore Umpires: Steve Bucknor (WI) and Nadeem Ghauri (Pak) Player of the match: Salman Butt (Pak)

• Pakistan won the toss and elected to bat.

4th ODI

16 April 2008 Scorecard

Bangladesh 210 (49.1 overs)	v	Pakistan 212/3 (44.3 overs)
Shakib Al Hasan 108 (120) Sohail Khan 3/30 (6.1 overs)		Salman Butt 74 (84) Shakib Al Hasan 1/34 (9 overs)

Pakistan won by 7 wickets Multan Cricket Stadium, Multan Umpires: Steve Bucknor (WI) and Zameer Haider (Pak) Player of the match: Shakib Al Hasan (Ban)

• Bangladesh won the toss and elected to bat.

5th ODI

19 April 2008 Scorecard

Pakistan 329/9 (50 overs)	v	Bangladesh 179 (40.4 overs)
Salman Butt 136 (124) Mashrafe Mortaza 4/65 (10 overs)		Mahmudullah (37) Mohammad Asif 3/35 (8.1 overs)

Pakistan won by 150 runs National Stadium, Karachi Umpires: Steve Bucknor (WI) and Nadeem Ghauri (Pak) Player of the match: Mohammad Asif (Pak)

• Pakistan won the toss and elected to bat.
• Naumanullah (Pak) made his ODI debut.

Only T20I

20 April 2008 Scorecard

Pakistan 203/5 (20 overs)	v	Bangladesh 101 (16 overs)
Misbah-ul-Haq 87* (53) Shakib Al Hasan 1/33 (4 Overs)		Nazimuddin 42 (48) Mansoor Amjad 3/3 (1 Over)

Pakistan won by 102 runs National Stadium, Karachi Umpires: Nadeem Ghauri (Pak) and Zameer Haider (Pak) Player of the match: Misbah-ul-Haq (Pak)

• Pakistan won the toss and elected to bat.
• Wahab Riaz, Mansoor Amjad (Pak) and Dhiman Ghosh (Ban) all made their T20I debuts.