Pakistan Beat Afghanistan By 1 Wicket In 2nd ODI: The Pakistan team has taken an unbeatable 2-0 lead in the series by winning the second match of the 3-match ODI series against Afghanistan in a thrilling way by 1 wicket. In the second ODI, Pak team’s fast bowler Naseem Shah once again told that he likes to bat against Afghanistan. In the last over, when the team needed 11 runs to win, Naseem gave a thrilling victory to the Pakistan team by hitting two fours in the first ball.
In the second match of the ODI series, the Pakistan team got a target of 301 runs to win. The Pak team had scored 290 runs in 49 overs at the loss of 8 wickets. With the start of the last over, Shadab Khan was mankading out by Afghan bowler Fazhallak Farooqui. Shadab had scored 48 runs in 35 balls by that time.
From here, Naseem Shah hit a four on the first ball, showing amazing with the bat. After this the second ball remained a dot. With 1 run coming on the third ball, Haris Rauf came on strike. With Haris scoring 3 runs on the fourth ball, Naseem was brought on strike again. Now on the fifth ball of the over, taking the outer edge of Naseem’s bat, the ball went across the boundary line on the third man and the Pakistan team won the match by 1 wicket before 1 ball.
This is the brilliant and absolute finish to the 2nd ODI against Afghanistan. Naseem Shah throwing glows and winning it for Pakistan for the last wicket is a brilliant love story. #PakistanCricket #PakvsAfg #ShaheenAfridi #imamulhaq #NaseemShah pic.twitter.com/z80eGwCE1h
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Chasing the target in this match for the Pakistan team, Imam-ul-Haq scored 91 and captain Babar Azam also played important innings of 53 runs. On the other hand, Farooqi took 3 wickets while Mohammad Nabi took 2 wickets in bowling from Afghanistan.
Gurbaz’s brilliant century innings from Afghanistan’s side
Talking about the innings of the Afghanistan team in this match, the opening pair of Rahmanullah Gurbaz and Ibrahim Zadran played a very important role in it. There was a big partnership of 227 runs for the first wicket between the two. Gurbaj played a brilliant inning of 151 runs in this match with his fifth century of ODI career. And Zadran also scored 80 runs. Afghanistan’s team managed to reach the score of 300 runs at the loss of 5 wickets in 50 overs.
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