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Seamer Mirwais Ashraf has said that Afghanistans attack will have a key role to play in the upcoming three-ODI series in Bangladesh. The bowlers, led by offspinning allrounder Mohammad Nabi, who claimed 4 for 24, tuned up by dismissing BCB XI for 167 to take a low-scorer.Nabi was assisted by 18-year-old-legspinner Rashid Khan and left-arm seamer Fareed Ahmed, who picked up two wickets each. Fareeds new-ball partner Karim Janant, uncapped at international level, also chipped in with a wicket, helping the visitors defend 233.This was a great preparation for us after spending the last 20 days training in India, Ashraf said. We played positive cricket and gave Bangladesh a tough time. Afghanistans bowling is a key area. It has legspin, left-arm spin, offbreak bowlers and the pace attack. The upcoming matches will be tough.Fareed and Janat are young and talented seam bowlers. They came from the U19s, and have the ability to swing the ball both ways. They deserve to be in the national team.Ashraf himself contributed to the victory, his late cameo - an unbeaten 32 off 19 balls - first lifted the side past 200. He then bowled three tidy overs with his medium-pace.I just play for the team, what they require from me, he said. I try to play according to the condition. Variation is important since the pitch wasnt suiting pace bowling.BCB XIs top-scorer Mosaddek Hossain, who was named in the Bangladesh squad on Thursday, said that Rashid would pose a threat in the ODIs.Rashid bowled accurately and had a lot of variations, he said. I think he was harder to play than the other legspinner. He bowls the googly really well and can stick to bowling at one spot.Mosaddek, who struck five fours and three sixes during his 76, however, drew confidence from reading the conditions well and hoped to justify his call-up to the national squad.Reading the wicket was more important to me today, he said. It was a tough wicket, kept low and there was turn. 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FOXBOROUGH, Mass. -- Every week digs Toronto FC a little bit deeper into a hole of its own making. The latest in a string of five defeats came from a 2-0 setback at New England on Saturday night. Diego Fagundez scored after 23 minutes to stake the Revolution (4-4-4) to an early lead. Juan Agudelo secured the points for the home side by poking home a Saer Sene cross in second-half stoppage time to extend TFCs run without a victory to nine matches. It may have marked the first time the Reds (1-7-4) fell to a defeat by more than one goal this season, but that fact -- and a modest improvement in the second half -- obscures the depths the Reds are currently exploring as they try to turn matters around sooner rather than later. "Its difficult, actually," said Toronto striker Robert Earnshaw. "Its difficult. They were better than us today. They kept the ball. What they did attacking-wise was better than us. They got two goals. Maybe they could have got one or two more. It was difficult for us as a team. What we should have done was really step it up from the beginning. Thats down to the team. As a team, we didnt turn up today. Thats what we need to have a look at. Thats what we need to improve next week." TFC coach Ryan Nelsen insisted his team showed what it could be for 60 minutes of this particular encounter, but the results -- and a current run that includes one win in the last 26 league matches -- suggest plenty of room for improvement still exists. Most of the problems with a poor opening period punctuated by Fagundezs third goal in three games. Revolution left back Chris Tierney worked his way into space down the left side and curled an inviting cross toward the far post. Fagundez floated away from makeshift TFC left back Darren ODea and then thumped home the opener to place TFC in a position to chase the game once more. "We didnt start well," Nelsen said. "I think the first 20 minutes was not what we wanted. When you come away from home, especially against a team that is pretty confident, and you give theem that start, it wasnt good.dddddddddddd" The visitors did their best to muster a response even before the first-year coach offered strident words at halftime. Recent loan signing Jeremy Brockie saw the potential equalizer skip off his forehead right before the break. Brockie nearly combined with Earnshaw soon after play resumed, but his pullback never reached the Wales international in a promising position eight yards from goal. Toronto FC controlled much of the possession from that point forward, but it lacked the incisiveness and the quality to carve open one of the leagues top defences. The usual diet of direct play -- complemented at times by neat passing by Matias Laba and recent Canada call-up Jonathan Osorio through midfield -- never produced the equalizer required to snap the current drought. "Its very frustrating when you put in a performance like that," Nelsen said. "You outpossess the team (in the second half). You outshoot the team on their home field. And you go away empty-handed. We started slow, which is not what we wanted. Id say for 60 minutes of that game, we were what we can be. But thats frustrating because its just a tease." After six-and-a-half years of the same sort of behaviour, the Reds are used to the situation and the response required to extricate themselves from it. Nelsen once again promised further reinforcements to improve the quality within the ranks, but those signings might have to wait until summer and TFC does not have a lot of time to spare. Right now, Nelsen and his players must concoct a way to pull themselves out of this well-worn rut before this extended skid completely derails their season. Earnshaw said he and his teammates must improve in short order to reverse the current plight and stop writing these painful chapters week after week. "I think the confidence is there," Earnshaw said. "What we need to do is find a way of putting the confidence into the right things and doing the right things to make us win. We have to figure it out." ' ' '