Afghanistan defeated Pakistan for the primary time in a Twenty20 on Friday after limiting Pakistan to 92-9.
Pakistan, with out 5 rested frontline gamers together with captain Babar Azam, struggled on a gradual and low pitch on the Sharjah Cricket Stadium towards the Afghans, whose six bowlers shared all 9 wickets.
Afghanistan fell to 45-4 within the tenth over and cruised dwelling on 98-4 with two overs to spare to win by six wickets.
Mohammad Nabi secured Afghanistan’s first win over Pakistan within the final decade with a straight six over long-off in 5 makes an attempt.
Afghanistan captain Rashid Khan stated, “Happy to win, because we always lose against them by small margins.” “It is a proud achievement to put on the colours of Afghanistan and lead the crew to victory. We by no means know the wicket. , , (But) the mindset was there. , , to regulate accordingly.
Afghanistan have an opportunity to win the primary collection within the remaining two T20 matches on Sunday and Monday.
None of the Pakistan batsmen might speed up on a two-pace pitch and most fell to tender dismissals.
In the absence of sturdy openers Babar and Mohammad Rizwan, replacements Saim Ayub and Mohammad Haris didn’t anticipate low bounce and fell within the batting powerplay whereas hitting extreme pictures.
Abdullah Shafiq was trapped by Azmatullah Umarzai for 0 and Tayyab Tahir returned the catch to Rashid Khan, one of many 4 making his Pakistan debut.
When Azam Khan was additionally dismissed for a duck on debut, Pakistan had been 41–5 within the eighth over.
Pakistan had been in peril of scoring their lowest T20 rating of 74 towards Australia in Dubai in 2012, however Imad Wasim made 18.
Interim captain Shadab Khan stated, “Sometimes it can happen because of the youngsters being nervous, but they need to be given a chance.” “As professionals, we cannot give excuses regarding the circumstances, we have to learn from the losses here.”
Unorthodox spinner Mujeeb Ur Rahman took 2-9 and Fazalhaq Farooqi 2-13.
Pakistan quick bowler Ihsanullah took two wickets in his first over on quick pitched balls.
Afghanistan had been quickly 4 down, however Nabi, 38 not out, and Najibullah Zadran, 17 not out, bought them over the end line.
Ihsanullah ended with 2-17.
With inputs from TheIndianEXPRESS
