The condition of the Pakistan cricket team has appeared before the Asia Cup 2025 starts. In fact, in the first match of the triangular T20 series, Afghanistan won a big win by defeating Pakistan. After this match, the Afghanistan team proved the first UAE and now Pakistan that the defeat was just a coincidence. Afghanistan defeated Pakistan by 18 runs in the match played on Tuesday at Sharjah Cricket Stadium.
Pakistan started to achieve the target of 170 runs. The team lost their first wicket as Sam Ayub on a score of 8. He was dismissed without opening an account. After this, wickets kept falling at regular intervals. The batsmen could not turn a good start into a big innings. Due to the consecutive wicket fall, the required run rate kept going up and the pressure on Pakistan kept increasing. Pakistan scored 151 runs for 9 wickets in 20 overs and lost by 18 runs.
With this victory, the Afghan team also broke a big record of Pakistan’s team. Actually, Afghanistan has now become the highest winning team on the same ground. This record of Pakistan is broken by them. This is the 19th win of the Afghan team on the field of Sharjah.
However, among the players of Pakistan, Sahibzada Farhan 18, Fakhar Zaman 25, Captain Salman Ali Aga was able to score 20 runs and lost his wicket. Haris Rauf finally came and scored an unbeaten 36 off 16 balls. If this innings had not come, Pakistan’s defeat would have been bigger. Afghanistan gave their full strength to defend 169 runs. The team’s experienced bowlers Mohammad Nabi, Rashida Khan, Fazalhak Farukhi and Noor Ahmed took wickets while bowling very affordable.
On the other hand, for Afghanistan, Rashid Khan took 2 wickets for 30 runs in 4 overs. So the prophet took 2 for 20 runs in 4 overs, Noor Ahmed took 2 for 20 in 4 overs, Fazal Farukhi took 2 wickets for 21 runs in 3 overs.