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Pakistan vs Afghanistan Scorecard, 1st T20I, Afghanistan vs Pakistan (UAE) 2023
Result · Mar 24 2023, Fri - 09:30 PM (IST)
PAKISTAN92/9
AFGHANISTAN98/4
Afghanistan won by 6 wickets
CRR:5.5
Player Of The Match
Match Info
| Series: | Pakistan in Afghanistan (UAE) 2023 |
| Date: | Mar 24 2023, Fri - 09:30 PM (IST) |
| Country: | United Arab Emirates |
| City: | Sharjah |
| Venue: | Sharjah Cricket Stadium |
| Toss: | Pakistan won the toss and elected to bat. |
| Afghanistan Playing XI: | Rahmanullah Gurbaz (wk), Ibrahim Zadran, Najibullah Zadran, Mohammad Nabi, Karim Janat, Azmatullah, Gulbadin Naib, Rashid Khan (c), Mujeeb Ur Rahman, Fazalhaq Farooqi, Naveen-ul-Haq |
| Pakistan Playing XI: | Saim Ayub, Muhammad Haris, Abdullah Shafique, Tayyab Tahir, Shadab Khan (c), Azam Khan (wk), Faheem Ashraf, Imad Wasim, Naseem Shah, Zaman Khan, Ihsanullah |
- Pakistan are unbeaten in each of the three men’s T20I games played against Afghanistan, winning each of those games while batting second on the day.
- No team has won more men’s T20I games in the United Arab Emirates than Afghanistan (32) and Pakistan (29); indeed, these are the two teams who have played most games in the format in the country – Pakistan (48) and Afghanistan (46).
- This will be the first bilateral multi-game men’s T20I series between Afghanistan and Pakistan, indeed this will be the first bilateral multi-game series between the two teams in any format.
- Afghanistan have won 11 men’s T20I games each at the Sharjah Cricket Stadium, Sharjah and the Sheikh Zayed Stadium, Abu Dhabi; a win here will make this the most successful ground for Afghanistan in this format.
- Afghanistan have effected 15 run-outs since the beginning of 2022 in men’s T20I cricket, only India have registered more during the same time period (18).
- Pakistan bowlers have a dot ball percentage of 38% in the slog overs (Overs 17-20) of men’s T20I cricket since the beginning of 2022, the best of all full-member sides; Afghanistan are eighth in the category (33%).
- Pakistan batters have struck a boundary once every 6.6 deliveries in the Powerplays of men’s T20I cricket since the beginning of 2022, the second-least of all full-member teams during the same period (Sri Lanka – 7.1).
- Rahmanullah Gurbaz (941 runs) is 59 away from becoming the sixth Afghanistan batter to reach the 1000 runs landmark in T20I cricket; if he does manage to get to the feat in this innings (39th), he will become the second fastest Afghani batter to reach to the milestone in terms of innings batted (Mohammad Shahzad – 38 innings).
- Shadab Khan (98 wickets) is two away from becoming the first Pakistani bowler and seventh overall to scalp 100 wickets in men’s T20I format; of all the full-member sides he has played at least one game against in the format, only against West Indies (5.5) and India (5.8) does Shadab have a better bowling economy rate than against Afghanistan (6.1).
- Rashid Khan (Afghanistan) has a career bowling strike-rate of 13.9 in men’s T20I cricket, the best of all bowlers to have bowled a minimum of 200 overs in the format.
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