2024-09-23 22:04:24
Published: 11:48, 22 September 2024
Champions ODI Cup is going on in Pakistan. With the participation of five teams, this fifty-over competition with all the star cricketers of Pakistan has attracted quite a lot of attention. In the ninth match of the competition, the opener of the national team, Saim Ayyub, went on a rampage with the bat. The left-handed opener scored 156 runs off 130 balls after raining four sixes for the Panthers Pakistan. Sime hit 13 fours and 7 sixes while batting at a strike rate of 120.
The Panthers scored 344 for 7 thanks to Sime’s devastating innings. In reply, Stallions Pakistan played well but could not score more than 324 runs. Panthers won by 20 runs.
Sime used the power play very well. Hit 5 fours and 2 sixes to reach fifty. After hitting a 45-ball fifty, he played another 47 balls to get a century. Abrar entered the nervous nineties by blasting Ahmed for four sixes. Jahandad reached his century from 97 runs by hitting four. Sayem extended his fourth century in List ‘A’ career. He reached his fifty in the next 26 balls in a stormy batting.
Earlier his career best in List ‘A’ cricket was 179. It seemed to exceed that run. There were opportunities. Pacer Jahandad stopped him for 156 runs in the 46th over. A spectacular innings ended there.
Taib Tahir responded by scoring 109 runs for the Stallions in reply to Saim’s 150 runs. But they could not match the equation of 20 runs as none of the rest could play a big innings.
Dhaka/Yasin/Vijay