Bangladesh wouldn't have envisioned the horror that would welcome them at the door of the T20 World Cup in the US. The scare after losing the first T20I against USA turned into a nightmare in the second, when Ali Khan, a 33-year-old right-arm pacer who waited all those years in the US to hog international limelight, took life out of the opposition with his special skill of bowling full and on the stumps in death overs.
The fact that Khan's three wickets in a spell of 3 for 25 came off the last nine deliveries he bowled is a testimony to the fact that he never lost the knack of bowling yorkers in the death overs, even when opportunities to shine on a global stage were few and far in between during his career as an American cricketer.
