Pakistani legendary cricketer Younis Khan is now joining the Afghanistan team. He will work as a consultant for the Afghan national team in the ninth edition of the ICC Champions Trophy. The Afghanistan Cricket Board (ACB) confirmed this information today.

Younis also worked as the batting coach of the Afghanistan team in 2022. The Champions Trophy, a one-day format that will start from February 19, will be jointly organized by Pakistan and the United Arab Emirates.

ACB spokesperson Syed Nasim Sadat told the media, "The ACB has appointed former experienced Pakistani top-order player Younis Khan as a consultant for the 2025 Champions Trophy. He will join the team before the event starts in Pakistan."

Younis has scored 10,099 runs in 118 Test matches in his career, including a career-best 313 runs. He also became the world number one batsman in the ICC rankings. Younis also led Pakistan to its first T20 World Cup victory in 2009.

After retiring from playing, Younis focused on his coaching career. He briefly served as the batting coach of the Pakistan team. He worked with Peshawar Zalmi in the Pakistan Super League (PSL). Younis Khan was also the head coach of the Bengal Tigers in the recently concluded Abu Dhabi T10 League.

The court has summoned Shakib Al Hasan, one of the country's leading cricketers and former MP from Magura-1 constituency, to appear in court in a cheque dishonor case.

The other accused in the case are Agro Farm Limited MD Gazi Shahgir Hossain, the company's director Imdadul Haque and Malaika Begum.

The matter was learned from court sources on Wednesday (December 18).

According to sources, Shahibur Rahman filed the case on behalf of IFIC Bank on December 15. The case was filed after two checks worth about Tk. 4.15 crore were dishonored.

The court of Additional Chief Metropolitan Magistrate Mahbubul Haque of Dhaka issued the summons on that day. They have been ordered to appear in court on January 18.

On December 15, the court recorded the plaintiff's statement and ordered them to appear in court on January 18.

The case states that the Agro Farm owned by Shakib took a loan from IFIC Bank for business purposes. The company issued two checks in favor of the bank against this. When the bank tried to withdraw the money on the specified date, it was dishonored because there was not enough money.

Shamim Patwary started the second match from where he had finished in the first match. He performed exactly like the first match. Although the team's batting order was upset at the beginning, Bangladesh finally scored 129 runs for 7 wickets with Shamim's batting.

Bangladesh lost the toss and was given bating. However, the Tigers were in trouble from the start. Captain Liton Das was stumped for just 3 runs in 10 balls. The visitors were under pressure after losing wickets one after another. Tanjid Hasan (2 runs) and Soumya Sarkar (11 runs) quickly returned.

In the middle order, Mehedi Hasan Miraj and Zaker Ali tried to put up some resistance. Miraj scored 26 runs in 25 balls and Zaker scored 21 runs in 20 balls. However, Shamim Hossain's devastating batting towards the end of the innings gave Bangladesh the capital to fight. Shamim scored 35 runs off just 17 balls, which included 2 fours and 2 sixes. Along with him, Tanzim Hasan Shakib remained unbeaten on 9 runs off 11 balls.

Gudakesh Moti was the most successful bowler for West Indies, taking 2 wickets for 25 runs in 4 overs. Besides, Akil Hossain, Alzarri Joseph, Roston Chase and Obed McCoy each took a wicket.

Even Bangladesh's highest score of 321 in an ODI in St. Kitts was not enough to win. Mahmudullah's unbeaten 84 and Soumya-Miraj's important partnership of 136 made a big collection, but it was overshadowed by West Indies' Amir Jangu.

The left-handed batsman scored a brilliant century in his debut match. He played an unbeaten innings of 104* runs off 83 balls and gave the Caribbeans victory with 4 wickets and 25 balls to spare. He was accompanied by Kisi Carty (95) and Gurakesh Moti (44*). This is the record for the highest run chase in the history of ODIs in St. Kitts.

Earlier, Bangladesh, having lost the toss and elected to bat first, faced disaster at the beginning. After the quick departure of Tanjid and Liton, Soumya-Miraj managed the team. Later, Mahmudullah-Zaker's 150-run partnership took Bangladesh's total to 321.

However, in reply, West Indies lost 4 wickets early on, but Bangladesh's spinners lost their rhythm after the rain break. Jangu and Carty together took away the match from Bangladesh. In the end, the Caribbeans secured victory with a six from Moti.

Amir Jangu was named Man of the Match on debut. Sherfan Rutherford was the Man of the Series. With this victory, West Indies thrashed Bangladesh 3-0 in the ODI series after 10 years.

Brief scores

Bangladesh: 321/5 in 50 overs (Mahmudullah 84*, Miraj 77, Soumya 73; Joseph 2/43).

West Indies: 325/6 in 45.5 overs (Jangu 104*, Carty 95; Rishad 2/69).

Result: West Indies won by 4 wickets.