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Afghanistan bushed Pakistan by 18 runs successful the United Arab Emirates during the tri-series warm-up for the Asia Cup.
Published On 2 Sep 2025
Ibrahim Zadran and Sediqullah Atal smashed successive half-centuries earlier Afghanistan spinners strangled Pakistan’s heavy batting lineup to notch an 18-run triumph successful the opening T20 of their tri-series.
The rotation trio of skipper Rashid Khan, Mohammad Nabi and left-arm spinner Noor Ahmad, playing his archetypal crippled of the tournament, snared six wickets betwixt them to bounds Pakistan to 151-9.
Zadran (65) and Atal (64) followed their half-centuries against the United Arab Emirates a time agone with an awesome 113-run basal arsenic Afghanistan posted 169-5 aft Khan won the flip and elected to field.
It was the 4th consecutive crippled successful the tri-series successful which teams successfully defended totals. UAE mislaid some its games portion chasing against Pakistan and Afghanistan.
Haris Rauf’s four-wicket haul had led Pakistan to a 39-run triumph successful the opening crippled of the tournament, but connected Tuesday, the fig 10 batter top-scored with 34 not retired disconnected 16 balls. Rauf’s blitz came excessively precocious arsenic Afghanistan spinners had virtually sealed the crippled by squeezing Pakistan to 111-9 successful 17 overs.
Fast bowler Fazalhaq Farooqi acceptable the crippled for Afghanistan with 2 wickets wrong the powerplay. The left-armer struck disconnected his archetypal shot erstwhile Saim Ayub feathered a drawback disconnected a mistimed propulsion changeable to the wicketkeeper, and was dismissed without scoring.
Sahibzada Farhan (18) struck 2 sixes, but was cleanable bowled by Farooqi disconnected a transportation that nipped backmost into the right-handed batter and deed the off-stump.
Fakhar Zaman couldn’t person a bully commencement of 25 runs disconnected 18 balls erstwhile the Afghan spinners bowled from some ends. Zaman sliced an casual drawback to abbreviated 3rd disconnected Nabi and skipper Salman Ali Agha was brilliantly tally retired by Khan astatine the non-striker’s end.
Afghanistan’s Ibrahim Zadran was 1 of 2 half-centurions successful the triumph against Pakistan [Akhtar Soomro/Reuters]Hasan Nawaz couldn’t wide Ahmad’s archetypal ball, a debased limb broadside afloat toss, and was caught astatine abbreviated good limb earlier Mohammad Haris’s tally of mediocre signifier continued and helium holed retired to heavy quadrate limb of Nabi arsenic Pakistan stuttered to 82-6 successful the 12th over.
Khan past picked the wickets of Mohammad Nawaz disconnected different mistimed changeable by a Pakistan batter and rattled the stumps of Shaheen Afridi earlier Rauf denied Khan the chapeau trick. Noor past capped a cleanable time erstwhile helium clean-bowled Ashraf disconnected his last ball.
Earlier, Zadran and Atal shared a period basal earlier Ashraf’s 4-27 didn’t let Afghanistan to people freely successful the decease overs.
Both batters joined erstwhile Ayub bowled 3 economical overs successful the powerplay and besides accounted for the wicket of Rahmanullah Gurbaz (8) successful his archetypal over.
Zadran and Atal paced their concern good soon aft the powerplay with Rauf and the 2 spinners – Nawaz and Sufiyan Muqeem – conceding 95 runs disconnected their combined 8 wicketless overs.
Ashraf picked each his 4 wickets successful the last 3 overs, with Zadran and Atal getting caught successful the outfield portion deceiving Azmatullah Omarzai and Nabi with his slower deliveries arsenic Afghanistan couldn’t accelerate successful the last 5 overs.
Both Pakistan and Afghanistan person 4 points each aft 3 games each, portion UAE, which faces Pakistan connected Thursday, has nary points.
The bid is portion of the teams’ warm-up for the 2025 Asia Cup, which begins successful the UAE connected September 9, with India arsenic defending champions.
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Al Jazeera and quality agencies
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