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Pakistan vs Afghanistan Highlights,
Afghanistan pulled off their second major shock of the Cricket World Cup on Monday when they sent Pakistan crashing to an eight-wicket defeat. pakistan vs afghanistan..
Chasing 283 to win, Afghanistan rode on the back of impressive innings from Ibrahim Zadran (87), Rahmat Shah (77 not out), Rahmanullah Gurbaz (65) and skipper Hashmatullah Shahidi (48 not out) to reach their target with six balls .
Afghanistan, who stunned defending champions England earlier in the tournament, and Pakistan both now have two wins and three losses from their five group games.
Babar Azam admits they are not doing well, they’re trying to do well and hope to better in the next game. States they did not hit the right lines and lengths and they bowled far too many bad balls.
Ibrahim Zadran, Man of the Match, says he wanted to bat with positivity and he did so. States he loves playing with Gurbaz and they know each other well and they needed to get off to a good start.
Pakistan on the other hand, have yet again been let down by their bowling. They just couldn’t hit the right lines and lengths. Their bowlers were inconsistent and were extremely poor throughout. Despite the wicket not being easy, Afghanistan managed to score this quite easily. Pakistan will be very disappointed with themselves.
Pakistan vs Afghanistan Live
Pakistan vs Afghanistan Live:Afghanistan beat Pakistan by eight wickets in another World Cup upset. Afghanistan beat Pakistan by eight wickets in yet another World Cup upset here on Monday.
Afghanistan chased down the target of 283 with six balls to spare with openers Ibrahim Zadran (87 off 113 balls) and Rahmanullah Gurbaz (65 off 53 balls) setting up the win.
One-down Rahmat Shah and captain Hashmatullah Shahidi chipped in with 77 not out and 48 not out respectively.
This was Afghanistan’s second upset win of the tournament after their shock victory over defending champions England.
Pakistan vs Afghanistan Live:Afghanistan now requires just 19 runs to beat another World Champion after beating England. A good delivery by Usama and Shahidi is taken aback and edges, gloves it past Rizwan, who wasn’t ready for this. Goes away fine of the short third man fielder for a four!
Rahmat Shah61(71)
Hashmatullah Shahidi42(40)
Usama Mir 8-0-55-0
Pakistan vs Afghanistan Live: Pakistan batters Iftikhar Ahmed and Shadab Khan are finishing the game well and Afghanistan pacers are proving to be very expensive in the death overs. Final over of the game is left and Iftikhar Ahmed is on crease, he will try to make this over as big as possible to push Pakistan final score higher.
Shadab Khan 40
Iftikhar Khan 40
Azmatullah Omarzai 1/50 (5)
Pakistan vs Afghanistan Live:Afghanistan beat Pakistan by eight wickets in another World Cup upset. Afghanistan beat Pakistan by eight wickets in yet another World Cup upset here on Monday.
Afghanistan chased down the target of 283 with six balls to spare with openers Ibrahim Zadran (87 off 113 balls) and Rahmanullah Gurbaz (65 off 53 balls) setting up the win.
One-down Rahmat Shah and captain Hashmatullah Shahidi chipped in with 77 not out and 48 not out respectively.
This was Afghanistan’s second upset win of the tournament after their shock victory over defending champions England.
Pakistan vs Afghanistan Live: Another good over for Pakistan as Ifitkhar Ahmed is looking absolutely fiery against Afghanistan pacers. This was the finish Pakistan was hoping for and as the score goes higher, Hashmatullah Shahdi must worry about how they plan to chase this target. Any 250+ chase on the slow pitch of Chennai is going to be challenging.
