Pakistan and Afghanistan T20 serial 2023
Pak vs Afg
Match First T20: Pakistan vs Afghanistan
Start date 24 March, 2023. 7pm
Stadium: Sharja Cricket Stadium
In this Match Pakistan
has won the toss and decided to Bat first, Pakistan captain was Shadab
Khan and the captain of Afghanistan ‘Rashid Khan.
Pakistan team squad: Saim Ayub, Mohammad Haris, Abdullah Shafique, Tayyab Tahir, Azam Khan (W), Imad Wasim, Shahdab Khan ©, Faheem Ashraf, Naseem Shah, Zaman Khan, Ihsanullah,
Afghanistan Team squad: Rahmanuallah Gurbaz (w), Ibrahim Zadran, Gulbadin Naib, Mohammad Nabi, Karim janat, Najibullah Zadran, Azatullah , Rashid Khan ©, Mujeeb ur Rahman, Fazalhaq Farooqi, Navven-ul-Farooqi, Naveen-ul-Haq
Pakistan opener build partnership of Just only 17 runs or Mohammad
Haris run out on 6 runs and get breakthrough from Naveen ul Haq.
Highest runs From Pakistan in this Imad Wasim Made highest 18
runs on 32 balls with 0 four, 0 six and S/R 56.25
Best Bowling Finger from Afghanistan: Fazalhaq Farooqi 4 over
13/2
Total runs: Pakistan total score is 92 runs and Falls of
Wickets 9 in 20 overs with extras runs is 5 (wide 1, Lb 1, B 3)
Pakistan set a target of 93 runs but Afghanistan won the
Match by 6 wickets in 17.5 overs
Highest runs From Afghanistan: in this Match |Mohammad Nabi 38
runs with help of 3 fours or 1 six’s and Rahmnullah Gurbaz Scored 16 and Najibullah
Zadran 17 runs on 5 balls.
Player of the Match: Mohammad Nabi (Afgh), 38 (38), 2/12
٘Match Point
Afghanistan defeated
Pakistan by six wickets in the first T20 match of the three match T20 series to
be played in Sharjah. This is the first time in the international matches that
the Afghanistan team has defeated Pakistan, in all the previous T20 Matches
there has been a tough match but Pakistan has been victorious every time.
Pakistan Player’s inexperienced side included with four players making their
debuts. The debutants included Saim Ayub, Tayyab Tahir, Ehsanullah and zaman
Khan. Captain
Saim Ayub and Mohammad
Haris, who came in to open, Gave Pakistan a very after a few overs, However,
after a few overs, Pakistan were more concerned with how to save wickets than
their run-rate. Earlier, Haris, Abdullah Shafiq and Saim Ayub were targeted by
the fast bowlers during the power play. Then the spinners made things worse for
Pakistan by showing Tayyab Tahir and Azam Khan the way to the pavilion.
Captain of Pakistan Shadab
khan, Faheem and Imad wasim could not get Pakistan out of this situation and
thus the Pakistan team could score only 92 runs for the loss of nice wickets in
the allotted overs. Imad Wasim scored the highest 18 runs for Pakistan while
Fazal Haq Farooqui, Mohammad Nabi and Mujeeb ur Rahman scored two wickets each
for Afghanistan. Rahmanullah Garbaz as an aggressive batsman opened the
batting. However, Pakistan ‘s Hopes were Restored as PSL player of the
tournament Ehsanullah took two wickets in the bowling Attack.
Imad Wasim, who made a
comeback in the T20 team, showed the best bowling and got one wicket by giving
11 runs in four overs, but the Pakistani bowling was not show comfort zone in
front of the experience of Naheebullah and Mohammad Nabi. Thus, Afghanistan
achieved this target in the 18th over at the loss of only four
wickets.
Speaking after this
historic victory, Afghanistan captain Rashid Khan said that this victory was
important for them as earlier thy always lost by small margins. he said that ‘we
didn’t know anything about the pitch today, but we thought that after realizing
the situation in the first few overs, we will make a strategy accordingly.
On the other hand, Shadab
khan said that the purpose of this series was to give opportunity to young
players and maybe due to the fear of playing international cricket, the batting
could not bi click this match but we will come back in next match and truth on
the players. Despite this loss we have made a good comeback especially Imad and
Ehsanullah will try to win the next match
On social media,
Where users are
criticizing Pakistan’s batting, most of the users are talking about not putting
to much burden on the new players.
Kamran Akmal
Slowly people are
realizing why Babar and Mohammad Rizwan used to start slowly, Pakistan team is
nothing without them. It was a habit, they raised our standards.
Shahid Khan Afridi
Don’t press the new boys
under the burden of expectations by calling them Babar Azam and Rizwan’s Naam
-ul -badal. Instead of taking the place of Babar and Rizwan, let the children make
their own place, otherwise they won’t be able t show their abilities properly.
Rashid Latif
PSL leopards piled up in
Sharjah,
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