Afghanistan vs Pakistan 3rd ODI Full Highlights: In the third ODI played in Colombo, Pakistan defeated Afghanistan by 59 runs. With this, Pakistan cleaned up Afghanistan in the three-match series. Before the Asia Cup, this victory is encouraging for Pakistan.
In the third ODI, Pakistan had scored 268 runs for 8 wickets in 50 overs after playing first. In response, Afghanistan’s team could only score 209 runs in 48.4 overs. In this way Pakistan won the third ODI by 59 runs. With this, Afghanistan’s dream of registering a victory against Pakistan could not be fulfilled once again.
Chasing the target of 269 runs from Pakistan, the beginning of Afghanistan was once again bad. Opener Rahmanullah Gurbaz returned to the pavilion after scoring only five runs. After this, Ibrahim Zadran, who came to bat at number three, returned to the pavilion without opening the account.
After this, opener Riyaz Hasan and captain Hashmatullah Shahidi started playing with restraint, but Afghanistan suffered a third blow on a total score of 60. Opener Riyaz Hasan was dismissed after scoring 34 runs in 66 balls. Soon after this, Captain Shahidi went on to score 13 runs in 31 balls. Half of the Afghanistan team had returned to the pavilion for 62 runs.
After this, Mohammad Nabi returned to the pavilion after scoring just three runs. At the same time, Rashid Khan also got out after scoring 16 runs in 12 balls. It seemed as if Afghanistan’s team would not even be able to reach the figure of 100, but Mujeeb ur Rehman reduced the margin of defeat of the team by scoring the first half-century of his ODI career.
Mujeeb ur Rehman played a blistering inning of 64 runs in just 37 balls. During this, 5 fours and 5 sixes came out of his bat. Mujeeb shared a 45-run partnership with Farid Malik (17) for the 9th wicket and crossed the 200-run mark.
Shadab Khan took the maximum three wickets for Pakistan. Whereas Shaheen Shah Afridi, Mohammad Nawaz and Faheem Ashraf took two wickets each. Apart from this, Agha Salman got a success.
Earlier, Pakistan scored 268 runs in 50 overs thanks to the half-centuries of captain Babar Azam (60 runs) and Mohammad Rizwan (67 runs). Apart from these two, Agha Salman played an unbeaten 38 and Mohammad Nawaz played an important inning of 30 runs.
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