Pakistan vs USA: Playing first, Pakistan has scored 159 runs in the match against USA. Captain Babar Azam scored the most runs for the team, who scored 44 runs in 43 balls. Meanwhile, Shadab Khan played a stormy innings of 40 runs in 25 balls and rescued Pakistan from difficulties. Initially, the USA bowlers had put the Pak team in trouble, but on the strength of Babar and Shadab’s 72-run partnership, Pakistan managed to score 170 runs. Noshtus Kenjige took the most wickets for USA. He took 3 wickets for just 30 runs in 4 overs.
After losing the toss, the Pakistani team was invited to bat first. In this match played at Grand Prayer Stadium in Texas, Pakistan had a very bad start as the Pak team lost 2 important wickets within the first 15 balls of the innings. Mohammad Rizwan was able to score only 9 runs, while Usman Khan was out after scoring just 3 runs. Fakhar Zaman did hit a powerful six, but he also returned to the pavilion after scoring 11 runs in the 5th over. Within the powerplay itself, the Pak team had lost 3 wickets for 30 runs. Meanwhile, the important partnership of 72 runs between Babar Azam and Shadab Khan rescued the team from the crisis. Pakistan was moving towards a big score, but in the 13th over, a bowler named Kenjige got Shadab out on a score of 40 runs and on the very next ball, Azam Khan got a golden duck. By 15 overs, the team’s score was 113 runs for the loss of 5 wickets. But in the very next over, captain Babar Azam was out LBW after scoring 44 runs. After the captain’s dismissal, the run rate slowed down and in the meantime, Iftikhar Ahmed was out on a score of 18. In the last overs, Shaheen Afridi definitely tried to swing the bat fast and scored 23 runs in 16 balls to take Pakistan’s score to 159. With this, now USA will have to score 160 runs to register their second win in the T20 World Cup 2024.
Babar Azam came out on top
Babar Azam has made the record of scoring the most runs in the history of international T20 cricket as soon as he scored 16 runs in the match against USA. Before the start of this match, Babar Azam was only 15 runs behind Virat Kohli in terms of scoring the most runs. Babar now has 4,067 runs in 120 T20 matches. Former Indian captain Virat Kohli is in second place in this list, who currently has 4,038 runs in 118 matches. Rohit Sharma is also not far behind him, who currently has 4,026 runs.
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