Pakistan VS Afghanistan || Pakistan won the ODI series !

Asia Cup is going to start the after three days. Six teams including India, Pakistan, Sri Lanka and Bangladesh will participate in the main phase of this year's Asia Cup. The teams have already started preparing for the Asia Cup. As a preparation for the Asia Cup, Pakistan and Afghanistan met in Sri Lanka. The first two ODI matches between Pakistan and Afghanistan have been played. Where the Pakistan team won dramatically in both matches !

The first ODI match between Pakistan and Afghanistan was played at the Mahinda Rajapaksa International Stadium, Hambantota. At the start of the match, Pakistan captain Babar Azam won the toss and decided to bat. However, Pakistan's batsmen could not start the batting well at all. Pakistan team lost two wickets for just seven runs. Fakhar Zaman and Babar Azam made their way to the pavilion after Farooqi and Mujeeb were dismissed. After their departure, Imam-ul-Haque and Mohammad Rizwan tried to lead the team but failed. Pakistan's only successful batsman Imam-ul-Haq was dismissed by Mohammad Nabi for 61 runs off 94 balls.

At the end , Pakistan's first innings was ended at 201 runs with small contributions from Iftekhar Ahmed, Sadab Khan and Naseem Shah. Many thought that Afghanistan would easily overcome this small target given by Pakistan. But proving everyone wrong, Pakistan bowled out Afghanistan for just 59 runs.

As a result, Pakistan won by 143 runs in the first match between Afghanistan and Pakistan. All the credit goes to Pakistan's bowlers for this huge victory. Haris Rauf's performance with the bowl in particular was extraordinary. The fast bowler picked up five wickets for 18 runs in six overs. Besides, the bowling of Shaheen Shah Afridi, Naseem Shah and Sadab Khan was commendable.

After a bad loss in the first match, the Afghanistan team made a great comeback in the second match. However, luck was not in their favor in this match as well and they had to lose by one wicket in the end. Afghanistan batsmen set a target of 300 runs by batting at the beginning of this match. After being all out for 59 runs in the first match, such a performance in the second match was like a surprise. Young hard hitter batsman Rahmanullah Gurbaz gave an incredible innings of 150 runs for Afghanistan in this match. The two openers average a record pair of 200+ runs.

After a great batting performance in the first innings, the performance with the bowl was not to the liking of the Afghans. So they had to lose by one wicket. Despite being so close to victory against Pakistan, the Afghanistan team failed again and again. In the last three overs where Pakistan needed 40 runs with only two wickets in hand. But the Afghanistan bowlers could not stop Shadab Khan and Naseem Shah from scoring runs. In the end, the team had to lose the series with a heartbreaking loss. With this victory, the Pakistan team has completed the preparation of the Asia Cup well in addition to taking a 2-0 lead in the series.

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