Harish Rauf bowled brilliantly against Afghanistan. (Photo-PTI)
Tri -series is being played between the United Arab Emirates (UAE), Pakistan and Afghanistan before the Asia Cup 2025. In the first match of this series, Pakistan has registered a big victory against Afghanistan. He started with a win in this series by defeating his neighbor country by 39 runs. Afghanistan’s batting flopped in this match. He lost his five wickets only 20 runs. During this, Pakistan fast bowler Haris Rauf sent 4 players from Afghanistan to the pavilion in just 23 balls and put the match in Pakistan.
Afghanistan’s poor batting
The Afghanistan team batted very poorly to chase the target of 183 runs in the first match of the Tri -series. At one time, Afghanistan reached Majubat position after scoring 93 runs for 2 wickets in 11 overs, but in the 12th over, Pakistan fast bowler Harish Rauf turned the match to Pakistan with two wickets of Afghanistan. After this, two Afghanistan teams completely falter and lost their five wickets in 20 balls. During this time she was able to score only 4 runs.
Rashid Khan also could not save the team from defeat
After falling 5 wickets on the score of 97, captain Rashid Khan tried to handle the team, but he could not win the team and the entire team of Afghanistan was dismissed by scoring 143 runs in 19.5 overs. Rashid Khan scored 39 runs in 16 balls with the help of 5 sixes and 1 four. Sadiullah Atal scored 23 runs in 19 balls. Wicketkeeper batsman Rahmanullah Gurbaz scored 38 runs in 27 balls with the help of a six and 3 fours.
For Pakistan, Harish Rauf took 4 wickets for 31 runs in 3.5 overs. Shaheen Shah Afridi, Mohammad Nawaz and Shufian Mukim got two wickets each, before Pakistan captain Salman Aga hit the fifty in this match.
Pakistan captain fits fifty
The Pakistan team started to bat first against Afghanistan and added 26 runs in 15 balls for the first wicket. After this, Sabihjana Farhan was dismissed. He scored 21 runs in 10 balls with the help of 2 sixes and 1 four. After this, Sam Ayub (14) and Fakhar Zaman (20) brought the team’s score to 50 runs. After these two were dismissed, captain Salman Aga took over the team and played a brilliant half -century innings. He scored an unbeaten 53 in 36 balls with the help of 3 fours and 3 sixes.
Mohammad Nawaz played a fast innings of 21 runs off 11 balls with the help of 2 sixes and 1 four. In this way, Pakistan’s team managed to score 182 runs for 7 wickets in 20 overs. Farid Ahmed took two wickets for Afghanistan. Mujib ur Rehman, Ajmatullah Umarzai, Mohammad Navi and captain Rashid Khan took one wicket each.
