In the first T20 match played between Pakistan and Afghanistan in Sharjah, Afghanistan defeated Pakistan by six wickets.
Playing first, the Pakistan team could score only 92 runs in the allotted 20 overs, so Afghanistan has got a target of 93 runs to win over Pakistan, which was achieved by the Afghanistan team in the eighteenth over.
The special thing about this match was that Pakistan fielded a team consisting of half new and almost as many old players.
After winning the toss and batting first, Pakistan’s innings was opened by Mohammad Haris and Saeem Ayub, both of whom were seen trying to score early runs but could not get much success.
Pakistan has fielded four new players for today’s match including Saeem Ayub, Tayyab Tahir, Zaman Khan and Ehsanullah.
While Mohammad Haris Imad Wasim, Abdullah Shafiq, Faham Ashraf and Azam Khan have also been included back in the team.
On behalf of Pakistan, Saeem Ayub scored 17 runs and Imad Wasim scored 18 runs while Tayyab Tahir also scored 16 runs.
Apart from him, no batsman could score significant runs, so the Pakistan team could only finish 92 on the board after playing 20 overs.
Mohammad Nabi, Mujeebur Rahman and Fazl Haq Farooqui took two wickets each from Afghanistan.
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Rahmanullah Garbaz and Ibrahim Zadran started the innings for Afghanistan but both returned early, Ehsanullah’s two wickets in one over certainly made the match interesting, but Afghanistan was the target of low runs on the board from Pakistan. could not stop the victory.
After losing four wickets at the score of 45, the task of pulling Afghanistan’s boat out of the vortex was done by the experienced Mohammad Nabi and Najeebullah Zadran also played his role well in the other direction.
Mohammad Nabi played an unbeaten innings of 38 runs and was victorious in Afghanistan’s victory.
Ehsanullah took two wickets for Pakistan.
The first match played between Pakistan and Afghanistan in Sharjah was low scoring but it remains to be seen whether the fans get to see rain of sixes and fours in the next two matches.
The next two matches between Pakistan and Afghanistan will be played in Sharjah on March 26 and March 27.
