Afghanistan defeated Pakistan by 8 wickets

Afghanistan defeated Pakistan by 8 wickets

Afghanistan defeated Pakistan by 8 wickets in the 22nd match of the International Cricket Council (ICC) World Cup.

In this match played at Chennai's P Chidambaram Stadium, Pakistan had given Afghanistan a target of 283 runs to win, which Afghanistan achieved in the 49th over. In pursuit of the target, the Afghanistan team also made a great start, where the openers Rahmanullah Garbaz and Ibrahim Zadran did not let the Pakistani bowlers run.

The Afghan batsmen started scoring runs fearlessly and formed an opening partnership of 130 runs. Shaheen Afridi ended the partnership by catching Rahmanullah Garbaz out, Rahmanullah played an innings of 63 runs.

Afghanistan's run-scoring continued but suffered their second loss in the form of Ibrahim Ibrahim Zadran for 190. Ibrahim Zadran played a brilliant innings of 87 runs, he was dismissed by Hasan Ali.

After that, Afghanistan batsmen Heshmatullah Shahdi and Rahmat Shah made an unbeaten partnership of 96 runs to give their team a historic victory against Pakistan. Rahmat Shah scored 77 while Heshmatullah Shahidi played an unbeaten innings of 48 runs.

Shaheen Afridi and Hasan Ali took one wicket each for Pakistan. Earlier, Pakistan had won the toss and decided to bat first. Openers Imam-ul-Haq and Abdullah Shafiq gave Pakistan a cautious start, with the national batsmen completing the team's fifty without losing a wicket. Imam-ul-Haq was dismissed for 17 runs on a total of 56, then captain Babar Azam came to accompany Abdullah Shafiq. A partnership of 54 runs was made between the two and Abdullah Shafiq played an innings of 58 runs on a total of 110 and got out lbw off the ball of Noor Ahmed.

Mohammad Rizwan looked in a hurry, after scoring 8 runs off 10 balls, he was caught out playing an unnecessary shot for a total of 120. A partnership of 43 runs was established between Babar Azam and Saud Shakeel on the fourth wicket. Saud Shakeel was dismissed for 163 after scoring 25 runs.

On the fifth wicket, Babar Azam along with Shadab Khan took the score forward. A partnership of 43 runs was formed on this wicket as well. Meanwhile, Babar Azam completed the 30th half-century of his career, but he was caught out by Noor Ahmed after scoring 74 runs. A partnership of 73 runs was formed between Shadab Khan and Iftikhar Ahmed for the sixth wicket, both were caught out in the last over, both played innings of 40 and 40 runs respectively. Pakistan scored 282 runs for the loss of 7 wickets in the allotted 50 overs. On behalf of Afghanistan, Noor Ahmed 3, Naveen ul Haq 2 while Azmatullah Omarzai and Mohammad Nabi dismissed 1 player each. Keep in mind that this is Pakistan's third consecutive failure in the World Cup. Afghanistan's Ibrahim Zadran was adjudged the man of the match for his excellent batting performance.e