Five times when Bangladesh snatched defeat from the jaws of victory

#4 Lost by 2 runs, versus Pakistan at Dhaka, 2012

Bangladesh managed to relinquish the Asia Cup by taking a single off the last ball which demanded a boundary instead

In their first ever chance of a shot at everlasting glory, Bangladesh were all set to upset Pakistan to win their maiden Asia Cup, having meted out the same treatment to India and Sri Lanka earlier in the tournament.

Abdur Razzak and Shakib al Hasan kept a power packed Pakistani batting to 9/236. In the chase, they did display nerves and tendencies to succumb to the occasion, most of that evident from an overly cautious start. Despite that, they were rescued to a winning position once again, helped by Shakib's clever batting.

A late assault by Mashrafe Mortaza had them needing 25 off 3 overs, which meant that even though they just managed to play out Saeed Ajmal, they needed only 9 off the last 6 balls to lay hands on their first major title.

But Pakistan's Aizaz Cheema had rather different plans. His assortment of slower deliveries and gripping cutters were way too much for the hosts to process and as they dug out yorker after yorker, gathering runs via running only was never going to do the trick and from a virtually unbeatable position, Bangladesh managed to relinquish the Asia Cup by taking a single off the last ball which demanded a boundary instead.