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1 min read 10/23/2023, 08:50 PM IST
In a very important cricket game,
Pakistan vs Afghanistan played against each other at the MA Chidambaram Stadium in Chennai during the ICC Cricket World Cup 2023. Despite losing to India and Australia in matches, Pakistan is currently ranked fifth in the league table. Their net run rate is -0.456 Captain Babar Azam was really focused on motivating his team to play their best in this very important match.
On the other hand, Afghanistan had a difficult game against New Zealand, where they faced problems in all three parts of the game. Captain Hashmatullah Shahidi and the Afghan team wanted to do better in their next game, especially when it came to batting. In their previous game, they were only able to score 139 runs and they weren’t happy with their performance.
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- The game was starting to calm down after Gurbaz was sent off early. Afghanistan is still winning the match, and Pakistan really needs to make progress by getting Ibrahim Zadran out. Afghanistan had a score of 152 runs for the loss of 1 wicket in 25 overs. Rahmat had scored 8 runs and Zadran had scored 74 runs.
- 7:45 pm – Wicket. Shaheen came back to bowl and immediately got a breakthrough. Gurbaz tried to hit the ball, but he hit it in the wrong direction and Usama Mir caught it easily. In simple words, Afghanistan had scored 130 runs with only one wicket lost in 21. 2 overs Gurbaz had scored 65 runs and Zadran was still batting on 62 runs.
- At 7:40 pm, Afghanistan kept moving forward quickly and scoring goals at a high rate. Shaheen Shah Afridi was getting ready, and Pakistan was counting on him to make a big play and take back control. Afghanistan had a score of 128 runs with no wickets lost after playing for 20 overs. Gurbaz had scored 64 runs and Zadran had scored 61 runs.
- At 7:18 pm, Pakistan was in a tough position because Afghanistan was doing well, especially because of mistakes in catching the ball. They needed to come up with a solution quickly. The Afghan players were playing well against Shaheen and Hasan Ali and were starting to score easily. Afghanistan had a score of 98 runs with no players out in the first 15 overs. Gurbaz had scored 45 runs and Zadran had scored 51 runs.
- At 6:56 pm, Afghanistan was scoring runs consistently and all their players were still in the game. This put them in a good position to win, especially if the first two players could keep playing together for another 10-15 rounds. Afghanistan scored 60 runs without losing any wickets in 10 overs. Gurbaz’s score is 28 runs and Zadran’s score is 32 runs.
- At 6:31 pm,
Afghanistan was off to a good start, even though Pakistan’s bowlers didn’t pose much challenge for them. Zadran was the one who started doing well at the beginning, and people thought that Gurbaz would also start scoring soon. Afghanistan had scored 28 runs without losing any wickets in the first 5 overs of the game. Gurbaz had scored 8 runs and Zadran had scored 20 runs.
- Pakistan’s batting in the cricket match ended well because of Iftikhar and Shadab. They were able to increase their team’s score to 283, which was higher than usual. This made it difficult for Afghanistan to reach that score.
- Now, it was Afghanistan’s time to try and catch up. Rahmanullah Gurbaz started batting and faced Shaheen Shah Afridi. He quickly hit the ball and scored four runs. Afghanistan had scored 4 runs without losing any wicket in the first 6 balls of the match. Rahmanullah Gurbaz had scored 4 runs and Najibullah Zadran had not yet scored any runs.