Asia Cup: Pakistan beat Afghanistan in last over thriller

Pakistan players celebrate their victory against Asia Cup T20 cricket match in Afghanistan
Pakistan players celebrate their victory against Asia Cup T20 cricket match in Afghanistan [ image source: Anjum Naveed/AP Photo]


Pakistan pulls off an undeniably exhilarating win over Afghanistan to set up Asia Cup last against Sri Lanka, taking out rivals India.

Tailender Naseem Shah hit two last-over sixes as Pakistan pulled off an exhilarating one-wicket prevail upon Afghanistan on Wednesday to set up an Asia Cup last against Sri Lanka, taking out rivals India all the while.

Pursuing 130 for triumph, Pakistan were in hot water at 118-9 when number 10 Naseem ripped two hits over the wall off Fazalhaq Farooqi to win with four balls in excess in Sharjah and end India and Afghanistan's expectations of making the last.

The Afghans seemed set for triumph when Farooqi, who had figures of 3-19 from his initial three overs, saw two full throws toward the beginning of the last over dispatched over lengthy off.

Emotions raged when Fareed Ahmad struck two times in the nineteenth over, including excusing the huge hitting Asif Ali who then, at that point, irately waved his bat at the bowler as the umpire chilled him off.

In a game overwhelmed by bowlers, Pakistan quick bowler Haris Rauf drove an enlivened assault that restricted Afghanistan to 129-6 after Pakistan chose for field first.


Pakistan's Naseem Shah, center, celebrates after hitting a six in the Asia Cup T20 cricket match against Afghanistan in Sharjah, United Arab Emirates
Pakistan's Naseem Shah, center, celebrates after hitting a six in the Asia Cup T20 cricket match against Afghanistan in Sharjah, United Arab Emirates [image source: Anjum Naveed/AP Photo]



'Guarding a low aggregate'

Farooqi caught captain Babar Azam lbw for a first-ball duck to give Afghanistan prompt any desire for shielding the low aggregate.

Babar has experienced a dunk in structure, with scores of 10, nine and 14 in the past three matches.

Pakistan experienced one more blow when Fakhar Zaman was headed on a mission to leave the group 18-2.

Mohammad Rizwan, the competition's driving run-scorer and who supplanted his commander as the world's main T20I batsman on Wednesday, endeavored to revamp the innings with Iftikhar Ahmed.

Leg-spinner Rashid Khan got through by catching Rizwan lbw for 20 and the batsman walked back to the structure after an ineffective survey.

Bad habit chief Shadab was sent in front of Khushdil Shah and he conveyed by taking on Nabi's off-turn with a six and four to facilitate the tension.


Afganistan team crying
The Afghans looked set for victory when Farooqui, who had figures of 19-3 in the first three overs, dispatched two full tosses to long off at the start of the final over. [Image source: Anjam Naveed/AP Photo]


A striving Shadab, with likely issues, tumbled to Rashid for 35.

Yet, number 10 Naseem triumphed ultimately at a scene where previous Pakistan batsman Javed Miandad once hit a last-ball six against India in the 1986 Austral-Asia Cup last.

But after Afghanistan's bad defeat against Pakistan, experts are commenting that perhaps it is better to eliminate the Afghanistan cricket team than to put more burden on Afghanistan, whose national economy is infamous and inefficient. It should be remembered that the Afghanistan cricket team has been washed well by Pakistan in every match and in the past many years, only Pakistan has had the honor of doing this wash.

India play Afghanistan in Dubai on Thursday in a dead-elastic, with Pakistan confronting Sri Lanka on Friday in a review of Sunday's conclusive.



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