Pakistan's winning start in the World Cup, defeating the Netherlands by 81 runs

Defeating the Netherlands by 81 runs

In the second match of the World Cup 2023, Pakistan defeated the Netherlands by 81 runs and started their campaign in the mega event with victory.

Chasing a target of 287 runs, the Netherlands team was bowled out for 205 runs, thus the national team won the first match by 81 runs. In the match played in the Indian city of Hyderabad Deccan, Netherlands won the toss and invited Pakistan to bat first. The Green Shirts scored 287 runs in 49 overs thanks to the half-centuries of Saud Shakeel and Muhammad Rizwan, the responsible partnership of Shadab Khan and Muhammad Nawaz. Chasing the target, the Netherlands started batting and their first wicket fell to Max O'Dowd, who scored just 5 runs and conceded the wicket to Hasan Ali.

Pakistan got their second win on the score of 50, Iftikhar Ahmed bowled Colin Ackerman for an individual score of 17. After that, Netherlands opener Vikramjeet Singh put on a 70-run partnership with the 4-wicket-taking Bess D-Leads in today's match to take the score to 120 runs. Meanwhile, Vikramjeet Singh completed his half-century and Shadab Khan guided him to the pavilion. The Netherlands opener hit 1 six and 4 fours during his 52-run innings.

Haris Rauf first dismissed Teja Ndamanuru for 5 runs and captain Scott Edwards for zero in a single over and strengthened the grip of the green shirts on the match. The sixth wicket of Netherlands fell on the score of 158, Saqib Zulfikar scored 10 runs and became the victim of Shaheen Shah Afridi.

Pakistan's seventh and most important success in the match came in the form of the wicket of D-Leads, who scored 67 runs off 68 balls for a total score of 164 and fell victim to Mohammad Nawaz, who hit 6 fours and 2 sixes during the innings. The eighth wicket of the Netherlands was found at the score of 176. The green shirts got 184 runs, Aryan Dutt was bowled by Hasan Ali for just 1 run, Pakistani bowlers had to wait for 205 runs for the last wicket, Haris Roof bowled Paul van McCren for 7 runs and ended his match in the match. Got the third wicket

For Pakistan, Haris Rauf took 3 wickets, Hassan Ali took 2 wickets while Muhammad Nawaz, Shadab Khan, Iftikhar Ahmed and Shaheen Shah Afridi took 1 wicket each. Earlier, Fakhar Zaman and Imamul Haq opened the innings from the green shirts side, the out-of-form Fakhar Zaman scored 12 runs off 15 balls with 3 fours and returned to the pavilion. Pakistan's second wicket fell to captain Babar Azam, who returned to the pavilion after scoring only 5 runs on a total of 34. After only 4 runs, the other opener Imamul Haq left the field after scoring 15 runs.

At such a time, after the first 3 wickets of Pakistan fell to only 38, the grip of the Netherlands on the match became stronger, in such a situation Mohammad Rizwan and Saud Shakeel batted responsibly. The two players fought hard against the Netherlands bowlers and put on a partnership of 120 runs off 114 balls and put Pakistan in a stable position in the match. On the first ball of the 29th over, Saud Shakeel returned to the pavilion after scoring 68 runs, his innings included 1 six and 9 fours, so Pakistan's fourth wicket fell on the score of 158.

The 5th wicket of green shirts fell on the score of 182, this time Muhammad Rizwan was bowled after scoring 68 runs, he hit 8 fours during the innings, Iftikhar Ahmed was caught out after scoring 9 runs in the same over, thus only 6 batsmen of the national team. Pavilion returned for 188 runs. On the seventh wicket, Mohammad Nawaz and Shadab Khan added 64 runs to the total score. Pakistan's 9th wicket fell on the score of 267, Mohammad Nawaz was run out after scoring 39 runs, while the 10th out batsman Haris Rauf was stumped after scoring 16 runs, thus the whole team was reduced to 286 runs.

Shaheen Shah Afridi remained unbeaten with 13 runs, Dutch boss De Leeds took 4, Colin Ackerman took 2, Van Beek, Paul van Mee Krain and Aryan Dutt took 1 wicket each. During the match, Pakistan faced 294 balls from the Netherlands bowlers, in which the green shirts batsmen could not score any runs on 143 balls.

Talking after the toss, Pakistan cricket team captain Babar Azam said that he will start the World Cup well with today's match. Babar Azam said that he will try to score more than 290 or 300 runs. On this occasion, Netherlands captain Scott Edwards said that the pitch will be favorable for batting in the second innings.

Pakistan Team The Pakistan team for today's match includes Babar Azam, Imamul Haq, Fakhar Zaman, Muhammad Rizwan, Saud Shakeel, Iftikhar Ahmed, Shadab Khan, Muhammad Nawaz, Haris Rauf, Shaheen Shah Afridi and Hasan Ali. Captain Scott Edwards, Vikram Jeet Singh, Max O'Dowd, Colin Ackerman, Boss de Leeds, Teja Ndamanuru, Saqib Zulfikar, Logan van Beek, Aryan Dutt and Paul van McCren are included in the Netherlands side. It should be noted that in the opening match of the World Cup played in Ahmedabad yesterday, New Zealand easily defeated the defending champion England by 9 wickets.

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