Pakistan wins over Afghanistan by 1 wicket in Super Four, Match 4 (A2 v B2) of the Asia Cup 2022.
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The Super Four, Match 4 (A2 v B2) of the Asia Cup 2022 was played yesterday between Pakistan vs Afghanistan at Sharjah Cricket Stadium, Sharjah. In which Pakistan won a very close match by 1 wicket.
Pakistan won the toss and invited Afghanistan to bat first, Afghanistan batted first, Ibrahim Zadran played a brilliant inning of 35 runs with the help of 1 six and 2 boundaries in 37 balls, and Hazratullah Zazai scored 21 runs in 17 balls, apart from this, Rahmanullah Gurbaz scored 17 runs in 11 balls, Karim Janat 15 runs in 19 balls, Najibullah Zadran 10 runs in 11 balls, Mohammad Nabi dismissed without scoring, Azmatullah Omarzai remains unbeaten for 10 runs with Rashid Khan, and Rashid Khan remains unbeaten for 18 runs in 15 balls. In this way, Afghanistan scored 129 runs after losing 6 wickets in 20 overs and set a target of 130 runs in front of Pakistan.
Pakistani bowlers Haris Rauf took 2 wickets just for 26 runs, and Naseem Shah, Mohammad Hasnain, Mohammad Nawaz, and Shadab Khan got 1-1 wicket.
Pakistan chasing 130 runs in the second inning, achived the target after losing 9 wickets in the second ball of the final over. Pakistan started the inning very badly, Shadab Khan scored 36 runs in 26 balls, Iftikhar Ahmed scored 30 runs in 33 balls, Mohammad Rizwan 20 runs in 26 balls, Asif Ali 16 runs in 8 balls, Fakhar Zaman dismissed just for 5 runs, Mohammad Nawaz dismissed just for 4 runs, Khushdil Shah 1 run, Babar Azam and Haris Rauf dismissed without scoring, Naseem Shah played a brilliant unbeaten quick victory inning of 14 runs with the help of 2 sixes in just 4 balls, and Mohammad Hasnain remains unbeaten without playing any ball, in this way, Pakistan chased the target after losing 9 wickets in 19.2 over and won the match by 1 wicket.
Afghanistani bowlers performed very brilliant bowling, Fazalhaq Farooqi took 3 wickets just for 31 runs in 3.2 over, Fareed Ahmad Malik took 3 wickets for 31 runs in his spell, and Rashid Khan took 2 wickets just for 25 runs in his spell.
Pakistani all-rounder Shadab Khan was selected as the best player of the match, he performed very brilliant batting as well as also in bowling, played a very brilliant inning of 36 runs with the help of 3 sixes and 1 boundary in just 26 balls, and also took 1 wicket just for 27 runs in his spell.
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