Big upset in World Cup: Afghanistan beat Pakistan for the first time

 Big upset in World Cup: Afghanistan beat Pakistan for the first time

In the ICC ODI World Cup, Afghanistan defeated Pakistan by 8 wickets for the first time and got the second victory in the event.

Afghanistan easily achieved Pakistan's target of 283 runs for the loss of 2 wickets, Ibrahim Zadran was outstanding with 87 runs. Afghanistan has defeated Pakistan for the first time in an ODI cricket match, while in the current World Cup, the Afghan team has upset for the second time. Earlier, Afghanistan had pulled off a major upset by defeating defending champions England. It should be noted that the green shirts have faced the third failure in the current World Cup, Pakistan has played 5 matches in the World Cup so far, in which they won 2 and lost in 3 matches. The Green Shirts must win their remaining 4 matches to reach the semi-finals of the World Cup. Narrative of the match. In the match played in Chennai, Pakistan won the toss and decided to bat first against Afghanistan. Pakistan scored 282 runs for the loss of 7 wickets in the allotted 50 overs, Babar Azam scored 74 runs and Abdullah Shafiq scored 58 runs.

Change in Pakistan team A change was made in the Pakistan team in the match against Afghanistan, Muhammad Nawaz is not included in the team due to fever, Shadab Khan was included in the team in his place. Pakistan's innings. Green Shirts had a good start against Afghanistan, openers Abdullah Shafiq and Imam-ul-Haq formed a partnership of more than 50 runs, but then Pakistan suffered their first loss at a total score of 56, Imam scored 17 off Azmatullah Umarzai. suffered from. After the fall of one wicket, a partnership of 54 runs was established between Babar and Abdullah Shafiq, but then Abdullah returned to the pavilion by scoring 58 runs. Apart from this, Muhammad Rizwan was also a victim of Noor Ahmed by scoring 8 runs, while Saud Shakeel was dismissed by scoring 25 runs. In this, captain Babar Azam also completed his half-century but he too returned to the pavilion after scoring 74 runs off 92 balls.

In the final overs, Iftikhar Ahmed and Shadab Khan batted responsibly, Iftikhar scored 40 runs off 27 balls and Shadab scored 40 runs off 38 balls. Shaheen Afridi remained unbeaten on 3 runs. Thus, Pakistan scored 282 runs for the loss of 7 wickets in 50 overs. On behalf of Afghanistan, young spinner Noor Ahmed took 3 wickets, fast bowler Naveen ul Haq took 2 wickets. Apart from this, Muhammad Nabi and Azmatullah got one wicket each. Afghanistan's innings. Chasing Pakistan's target of 283 runs, the Afghan batsmen fought the Pakistan bowlers hard from the start, both openers Rahmanullah Garbaz and Ibrahim Zadran batting brilliantly to give the Afghan team a brilliant start of 130 runs. The green shirts showed poor fielding due to which the bowlers could not put pressure on the opposition team.

However, opener Garbaz 65 and Ibrahim played an innings of 87 runs, even after 2 wickets fell, the Afghan team did not come under any pressure and captain Hashmatullah and Rahmat Shah batted responsibly and gave Afghanistan a win. Hashmatullah Shahidi and Rehmat Shah remained unbeaten by scoring runs, Afghanistan achieved Pakistan's target at the loss of 2 wickets in the overs.