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Afghanistan vs Pakistan Scorecard, Semi Final 2, Men's Asian Games
Result · Oct 06 2023, Fri - 11:30 AM (IST)
Semi Final 2, - Pingfeng Campus Cricket Field, Hangzhou, China
PAKISTAN115
AFGHANISTAN116/6
Afghanistan won by 4 wickets
CRR:6.5
Match Info
| Series: | Men's Asian Games |
| Date: | Oct 06 2023, Fri - 11:30 AM (IST) |
| Country: | China |
| City: | Hangzhou |
| Venue: | Pingfeng Campus Cricket Field |
| Toss: | Afghanistan won the toss and elected to bowl. |
| Pakistan Playing XI: | Qasim Akram (c), Asif Ali, Haider Ali, Mirza Tahir Baig, Aamir Jamal, Arafat Minhas, Sufiyan Muqeem, Rohail Nazir (wk), Usman Qadir, Khushdil Shah, Omair Bin Yousuf |
| Afghanistan Playing XI: | Sharafuddin Ashraf, Sediqullah Atal, Karim Janat, Shahidullah Kamal, Qais Ahmad, Farid Malik, Mohammad Shahzad (wk), Gulbadin Naib (c), Zahir Khan, Noor Ali Zadran, Afsar Zazai |
- Pakistan have lost two of their last three men’s T20Is against Afghanistan (W1), having won each of their three games in the format against the Afghans; Pakistan had won the toss and chosen to bat first in both of those aforementioned losses.
- Afghanistan snapped a three-game losing streak against full-member sides in men’s T20Is with their win against Sri Lanka in the quarterfinal of the Asian Games; the Afghans had lost nine of their 11 such games in the format prior to that win.
- Afghanistan have logged a batting dot ball rate of 48% in men’s T20Is in 2023, the highest of any full-member side this year and 10 percentage points higher than Pakistan (38%).
- Aamer Jamal’s 41 off 16 balls against Hong Kong is the joint second-highest score by any tailender (No.8-11) for Pakistan in men’s T20Is (Anwar Ali – 46 v Sri Lanka on 1 August 2015); his strike rate of 256 is also the second-highest by any Pakistan tailender to face at least 10 balls in an innings, again behind Anwar Ali (271).
- Noor Ali Zadran (Afghanistan) notched up a score of 51 in men’s T20Is in the quarterfinal against Sri Lanka; Zadran, thereby, became the second-oldest Afghanistan batter to score a 50 in the formal at 35 years and 86 days of age, behind only Mohammad Nabi (38 years and 194 days).