Was T20 series against Afghanistan fixed? Many questions were raised on the defeat of Pakistan, ….. Asghar Ali Mubarak…
Was the T20 series against Afghanistan fixed? Many questions were raised on Pakistan’s defeat.
The question is whether this series was fixed, Pakistan knows very well that in the past the results of all the matches played in Sharjah were questioned, now we all know that Pakistan will win the last match after losing the series.
A series post-mortem is needed, how do you expect to win without team spirit? Who will take responsibility for the defeat?
Why didn’t you do your homework on time for teamwork?
Pakistan team played the match like a club team and the body language of the players before the match saw that they are not going to win. Pakistan had defeated Afghanistan in all the previous T20 matches.
Pakistan cricket suffered from the adventure and lost the series against Afghanistan for the first time in history.
The new talent was seen at home in a different form in Sharjah.
For the first time in international matches, Afghanistan defeated Pakistan in the T20 series and sent a message that how important it is to have senior players in the team. This experience will have a bad impact on Pakistan’s future cricket.
In the first match in the team devoid of stars, 4 inexperienced players were given debut by Pakistan. The debutants included Zaman Khan, Ehsanullah, Tayyab Tahir, and Saeem Ayub.
The experience of giving a chance to such a large number of players at once was a failure.
Pakistan’s top order batting failed for the second consecutive match. The lack of Babar Azam was felt in every department.
Due to the lack of senior players in the team, the team had to suffer a lot, on which Shahid Afridi also spoke
He said that trusting young players is a good move by PCB but they should have been in the field with senior players so that they can get field experience. Shahid Afridi tweeted that Afghanistan team played well, Rashid. Khan was brilliant as always, former captain Muhammad Hafeez called the Afghan cricket team more experienced than the current Pakistan T20 team.
In a Twitter message, Mohammad Hafeez wrote that Afghanistan has more international experience than the current team of Pakistan.
Meanwhile, the candidate for the head coach of the national team, Mickey Arthur, advised young players to groom with experienced cricketers.
Mickey Arthur said that Saeem Ayub, Abdullah Shafiq and Mohammad Haris have a lot of talent, the pressure and responsibilities of international cricket are different compared to franchise cricket.
Shadab Khan while talking to the media after the match said that we are the people who criticize our players and then give them respect, Rizwan and Babar Azam have been criticized for playing at a slow pace, talk about their strike rate. There are
Regarding the importance of senior players in the team, he said that after this series, Babar Azam and Mohammad Rizwan will get more respect than before.
He said that the performance of our senior players was not respected in this way before, I think that after this series they will be respected more than before by the nation and the media. Muhammad Rizwan also tweeted. The message read that I strongly believe in the young superstars of Pakistan cricket, stay strong, wake up your inner talent from this defeat, and work hard, you are a champion, you will make a great comeback again.
Former fast bowler Tanveer Ahmed criticized wicketkeeper Azam Khan for his poor performance.
He said that I have a question that where are those cricketers who support Azam Khan, that’s why I say that they have wasted their time playing cricket.
Shadab Khan defended the young players and said that the youth performing in PSL should get a chance, they will also make mistakes, they will not start playing like Babar Azam as soon as they come, it takes time to become players. Is.
Earlier, Afghanistan defeated Pakistan by 7 wickets in the second T20 match to take a decisive 0-2 lead in the series.
In the second T20 match of the series played in Sharjah, Pakistan once again won the toss and decided to bat first, which could not prove correct.
Fazlul Haq Farooqui, while playing a good spell, in his very first over, after the young opener Saeem Ayub, also walked Abdullah Shafiq on the first ball. The score had just reached 20 when Mohammad Haris also took the wicket of Naveen Haq after scoring only 15 runs. Sitting down
New batsmen Imad Wasim and Tayyab Tahir started to push the score forward and added 40 runs for the fourth wicket, but Tayyab’s innings of 13 off 23 balls was ended by Karim Jannat. Azam Khan once again failed. And after scoring just one run, Rashid Khan became a victim.
At this stage, captain Shadab Khan came to support Imad Wasim and both batted responsibly and established a partnership of 67 runs for the sixth wicket.
Imad Wasim maintained his Pakistan Super League form by scoring a half-century at a difficult time and played a knock of 64 runs while Shadab Khan also scored 32 runs before being dismissed on the last ball of the innings.
Pakistan scored 130 runs for the loss of 6 wickets in the allotted overs.
For Afghanistan, Fazlul Haq Farooqui took two wickets while Rashid, Maryam Jannat and Naveen took one wicket each.Chasing the target, the openers gave Afghanistan a good start of 30 runs, after which Zaman Khan took the wickets of Usman Ghani and gave Pakistan their first victory.
After that, Ibrahim Zadran came to support Rahmanullah Garbaz and the two players put on a 56-run partnership for the second wicket to brighten their team’s chances of victory.
A misunderstanding between the wickets at this stage resulted in Rahman being run out on a direct throw from Naseem Shah and returning to the pavilion.
Ibrahim Zadran completed the team’s century along with Najibullah, but he too gave way to Ehsanullah after scoring 38 runs on a total of 102.
In the last two overs of the match, Afghanistan needed 22 runs for victory, but thanks to Naseem Shah’s 17 runs including two sixes in the over, the Afghanistan team reached the threshold of victory and easily achieved the target with one ball before achieving a historic victory. Named.
With the win, Afghanistan also took a decisive 0-2 lead in the series, their first win in any series against a top-six team in the ICC rankings.
Fazlul Haque Farooqui was adjudged Man of the Match for his excellent spell.
It should be noted that Afghanistan defeated Pakistan in the first T20 match and won the honor of defeating Pakistan for the first time in T20 cricket.
In the first T20 match of the series played in Sharjah, Pakistan’s acting captain Shadab Khan won the toss and invited Afghanistan to bowl first.
Pakistan introduced four new players Saeem Ayub, Tayyab Tahir, Zaman Khan and Ehsanullah in the match.
Pakistan faced difficulties from the beginning of the innings and Mohammad Haris became the wicket of Fazlul Haq Farooqui after scoring just six runs, while in the next over, Azmatullah Umarzai also walked Abdullah Shafiq.
Saeem Ayub played a turn of 17 runs but Naveen-ul-Haq bowled him on a total score of 39 and gave Pakistan their third loss, but the Pakistani team suffered a big blow when after Tayyab Tahir, Azam Khan also returned to the pavilion without scoring any runs. .
Shadab Khan and Imad Wasim had brought the score to 60 together when acting captain Shadab’s innings also came to an end.
Imad Wasim faced 32 balls but the all-rounder, who struggled throughout the innings, managed just 18 runs to become Fazlul Haq Farooqui’s second wicket.
The Pakistan team could score only 92 runs for the loss of 9 wickets in the stipulated overs, Mohammad Nabi, Fazlul Haq Farooqui and Mujeebur Rehman took two wickets each from Afghanistan.
In pursuit of the target, the Afghanistan team also faced difficulties on a favorable bowling wicket and on a total score of 23, Ehsanullah gave away the wicket of Ibrahim Zadran on the very first ball of his international career.
The Afghan team was not even able to recover from this loss that Gulbuddin Naib also became a victim of Ehsan after one ball.
Pakistan got their third win when Abdullah Shafique’s fine catch off Naseem Shah in the next over ended Rahmanullah Gurbaz’s innings.
The score had reached 45 when Imad Wasim completed Karim Jannat’s job to give Pakistan their fourth victory. After the fall of four wickets for 45 runs, Pakistan had a illusory hope of getting back into the match, but at this stage Mohammad Nabi and Jeebullah Zadran struggled against the Pakistani bowling.
Both the players played a responsible game on a difficult wicket and took their team to the target with just 13 balls to go to a historic victory by six wickets, Mohammad Nabi scored 38 runs and Najeeb scored 17 runs.
This is the first victory of Afghanistan team against Pakistan in T20 matches.
Mohammad Nabi was adjudged Man of the Match for his courageous innings and taking two wickets.
The Pakistan team for the match consisted of these players.
Pakistan: Shadab Khan (captain), Saeem Ayub, Mohammad Haris, Abdullah Shafiq, Tayyab Tahir, Azam Khan, Faheem Ashraf, Imad Wasim, Naseem Shah, Zaman Khan and Ehsanullah.









