Pakistan won the toss and elected to bowl first.
Afghanistan Innings:
In the first Afghanistan team, the openers Jazai and Kurbus started hitting wildly from the beginning. Thus, Pakistan scored 35 runs in the first 3.2 overs. Following this Haris Raff bowled a few dot balls and Kurbus made 17 (11) under pressure.
Subsequently, Jazai also faced some dot balls and Mohammad Hasnain was bowled out. Jasai had scored 21 (17) runs.
Next, the batsmen started to play pressure as the Pakistan bowlers continued to bowl heavily against Afghanistan. As a result, Karim Janat 15 (19), Najibullah 10 (11), Mohammad Nabi 0 (1) were dismissed. Following this, Ibrahim Jordan, who was playing well, 35 (37) faced some dot balls and walked due to pressure.
In the end Rashid Khan added 18 (15) runs. Thus, the Afghanistan team reached 129/6 in 20 overs.
Pakistan Innings:
Chasing the target, the Pakistan batsmen struggled badly against the Afghanistan bowlers. Babar Azam Farooqui became a golden duck in bowling. Next Bakar Zaman also did not score a big score of 5 (9).
This was followed by Mohammad Rizwan 20 (26), Iftikhar Ahmed 30 (33) and Shatab Khan 36 (26) who played calmly in the middle overs before Nawash also took 4 (5). Kushtal also made 1 (3) runs and there was a stir.
Tik Tik Minutes:
In the end when 21 runs were needed in 2 overs, Ahmed Malik bowled Haris’ rap golden. Asif Ali was also dismissed for 16 (8) after hitting a six in that over. Thus, 11 runs were required from 6 balls in the last over. Pakistan batted for the last wicket.
Then the last wicket batsman, 19 came from Farooqui’s bowling and player Nashim Shah hit two sixes to seal the victory. Pakistan made 131/9 in 19.2 overs to advance to the final. With this victory, the teams of India and Afghanistan have been eliminated.