Afghanistan beats Pakistan by 6 wickets in 1st T20I Match of the Afghanistan v Pakistan in UAE, 2023.
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The 1st T20I Match of the Afghanistan v Pakistan in UAE, 2023 was played today at Sharjah Cricket Stadium, Sharjah. In which Afghanistan beats Pakistan by 6 wickets.
Pakistan batted first after winning the toss, started the inning very poorly, no any batsman could play well, Imad Wasim dismissed just for 18 runs in 32 balls, Saim Ayub 17 runs in 15 balls, Tayyab Tahir 16 runs in 9 balls, apart from this no batsman could touch figure out of 10 runs, Tayyab Tahir dismissed just for 6 runs, Faheem Ashraf 2 runs, Naseem Shah 2 runs, Abdullah Shafique and Azam Khan dismissed without scoring, Zaman Khan remains unbeaten for 8 runs in 8 balls, and Ihsanullah also remains unbeaten for 6 runs. In this way, Pakistan scored just 92 runs after losing 9 wickets in the prescribed 20 overs and set a small target of 93 runs in front of Afganistan.
Afganistani bowlers performed very brilliant bowling, Fazalhaq Farooqi took 2 wickets just for 13 runs, Mujeeb Ur Rahman 2 wickets just for 9 runs, Mohammad Nabi 2 wickets just for 12 runs in 3 overs, Azmatullah Omarzai 1 wicket for 20 runs in 3 overs, Naveen-ul-Haq 1 wicket for 19 runs in 2 overs, and Rashid Khan 1 wicket for 14 runs.
Afganistan chasing 93 runs in the second inning, achieved the target very easily by losing just 4 wickets in fifth ball of the 18th over. Afghanistan started the inning not very well, Rahmanullah Gurbaz and Ibrahim Zadran came to start the inning, the first wicket has gone for 23 runs in first ball of the 5th overs, Ibrahim Zadran dismissed just for 9 runs in 11 balls, next batsman Gulbadin Naib came to bat and he dismissed very quickly without scoring in just 2 balls as second wicket in 4.3 over, the team score was 23 runs, next batsman Mohammad Nabi came to bat, after a while the third wicket has also gone for 27 runs in 5.3 overs, Rahmanullah Gurbaz dismissed for 16 runs in 17 balls, followed by Karim Janat came to bat and he good strike rotate for a while with Mohammad Nabi, the fourth wicket has gone for 45 runs in 9.4 over, Karim Janat dismissed just for 7 runs in 16 balls, next batsman Najibullah Zadran came to bat played well and took the match to the victory with Mohammad Nabi, Najibullah Zadran played an unbeaten inning of 17 runs with the help of 2 boundaries in 23 balls, and Mohammad Nabi played a brilliant unbeaten vitory inning of 38 runs with the help of 1 six and 3 boudaries in 38 balls. In this way, Afghanistan chased the target very easily by losing just 4 wickets in 17.5 overs and won the match by 6 wickets.
Pakistani bowlers Ihsanullah took 2 wickets for 17 runs in 3.5 overs, Naseem Shah 1 wicket for 27 runs, and Imad Wasim 1 wicket for 11 runs.
Afghanistani all-rounder Mohammad Nabi was selected as the best player of the match, he performed very brilliant batting as well as also in bowling, played a brilliant unbeaten victory inning of 38 runs with the help of 1 six and 3 boudanries in 38 balls, and also took 2 wickets just for 12 runs in 3 overs.
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